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DIY HUMOR
There’s Nothing More Satisfying Than Doing Things Yourself
And not dying in the process.
In case anybody was worried, the light fixture is installed and I’m still alive.
Did the project go as planned?
No, it didn’t go as fucking planned, are you fucking kidding me? No DIY project has gone “as planned” since the dawn of history.
Noah probably had to tear the Ark apart three times before he got it right.
It’s almost impossible to believe that despite my half-assed efforts to make sure I bought a similarly-sized light fixture (I measured the glass part, and sort of measured the base, and then wrote the measurements down on a piece of paper that I immediately lost, but I told myself I’d remember, and I did remember, except I didn’t measure where the screw holes were in the base because WHY WOULD THE SCREW HOLES BE IN A DIFFERENT PLACE WHEN THE FIXTURE LOOKS ALMOST IDENTICAL TO THE ONE I HAD, RIGHT? RIGHT??)
When people are hired at the light fixture factory, the first thing they’re taught is, “We never, ever make anything that’s identical to anything else that has ever been made, ever. That would make things too easy.”
