Bullet Monday

Because I’m too lazy to put all of this in narrative form.

Stupid Things I’ve Recently Done

1. It looks like I’ve thrown away my whitening trays. I’m having a crown put on a tooth that will be visible when I talk and I thought I’d take the step of whitening my teeth first — via my dentist. I think I removed the trays one day, put them in a paper towel to dry, and eventually threw the paper towel away.
2. The other day I was installing new light switches in a panel that had four switches in it. This would have been while I was in Canada. Canadians, as you know if you’ve been watching How I Met Your Mother , are afraid of the dark. Keeping this in mind I opted not to cut the power to the whole house and just flip the breakers I needed to get the job done. Before starting the job I flipped the switches and made note of the lights they controlled — one switch didn’t seem to control any, though when I flipped it the lights appeared to dim for just a second… as they would if flipping the switch had powered something else on; as nothing appeared to be flipping on and off I decided I was imagining the dimming. As I was putting everything back together, with Diane standing beside me holding a flashlight, I accidentally flipped the switch and noticed something, though I wasn’t sure what. "Did you see that," Diane asked. "Yes," I replied, jamming my comment right next to hers to maintain the bullet-style integrity without regard to proper writing format (as if I’d recognize that should it smack me in the face).
   
   “The hall light came on," she said, in a manner that indicated she’d want her reply in a new paragraph should I ever blog about this as it would provide a second of pause before stating something the reader might find shocking were they not regular readers and therefore familiar with just how dangerous I am when I get a tool in my hand. (Despite the fact I’d turned breakers off, I’d still been very careful. And, up to the point I’d started putting the switches back in their mounting box I’d turned several off. It’s likely I never had a live wire in my hand.)
3. While I’ve never been terribly athletic — my big skill was the ability to stand under a basketball rim and not get terribly torqued out of shape by people climbing over my back and poking me with elbows — I have done things of an athletic nature that have resulted in injuries. And, I’ve always known what to do about those injuries. Why then, did it take two months for me to wrap my knee when it started to feel like it did when I hurt it playing basketball two years ago. The only thing I can think of is it’s because I hurt it wearing bad sneakers. (In my part of Ohio we’d typically say "bad tennis shoes," but there’s no obscure Steely Dan reference in that.)

Speaking of my knee, and this falls into the category of "smart things I’ve done," Saturday morning as I came down my steps I slipped and started to fall and rather than try to stop or catch myself — which might have resulted in my breaking in half –  I went with it and fell into a controlled heap on the floor. A quick check of the knee (which has been feeling better) showed no additional aches.

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