No tears

[threemonkeys]

Home handyman jobs are not exactly a strength of mine. As I have confessed in the past, I can manage the simple stuff but anything complex is a bit much. I also procrastinate on tasks. For each one I get done, I buy the bits I need for many more which just sit in my storeroom. But today I decided to have a go at one of the tasks slowly rusting there. Inevitably it was bookshelves that got me interested. In the past I have assembled lots of kitset shelves. But this time it was a bit more fundamental. A couple of planks, a few brackets and some screws. I have run out of suitable wall space to put kitsets so high mounted shelves above other stuff seemed the way to go. The main problem being that the planks were too long for the space intended. I am rather proud that I managed to shorten them cleanly without the proper equipment. Score one for my ability to improvise. Anyway, I got the job done and now all my small format short story collections have a home which looks just the way I intended to look..

All that is not really the point. I skinned a knuckle putting up one of the brackets and it bled a bit. The question is, does spilling blood in the course of a job make a successful outcome more satisfying or less satisfying?

Comments

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

It's good: ritual sacrifice and all that. Satisfying because you have placated the gods of homemade bookshelves and prevented demons from inhabiting your short story collections.

[littenz.livejournal.com]

I may drop by tonight and have a look. I need ideas like thi sfor my place. Otherwise it's another weeked visit.

[stephanie-pegg.livejournal.com]

I consider that a blood libation puts a little of yourself into the work. It makes it yours. ;-)