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When we got to the house, one of the cabinet doors was off and sitting in a corner. No one mentioned it until we asked. One of the two hinges had bent, so BIL just took the door off and let it sit there for who knows how long.
Anyway, I picked up a new pair of hinges when we picked up a load of mulch, but the face frame drillings were different. I needed to drill pilot holes and drive a pair of 1" screws.
Holy ****. I found 3 drills in the house - a corded one with ****ed up chuck jaws (wouldn't hold a bit straight), a cordless with a dead-to-the-world battery, and another cordless with the most pitiful torque I've ever experienced. On top of that, every Phillips bit was rounded and would cam out of the screw heads. Those ****** tools turned a 10 minute job in to an hour plus of frustration.
Anyway, I picked up a new pair of hinges when we picked up a load of mulch, but the face frame drillings were different. I needed to drill pilot holes and drive a pair of 1" screws.
Holy ****. I found 3 drills in the house - a corded one with ****ed up chuck jaws (wouldn't hold a bit straight), a cordless with a dead-to-the-world battery, and another cordless with the most pitiful torque I've ever experienced. On top of that, every Phillips bit was rounded and would cam out of the screw heads. Those ****** tools turned a 10 minute job in to an hour plus of frustration.
I hear ya. I didn’t buy a new bit kit with the new drills last night. My old bit kit is about as useful as my old drill. Trying to hang new blinds up and it’s taking much longer than it should.
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Plot thickens. Our window measures 34.5 inches across. When we bought the blinds last night they came in either 34 or 35. I wanted to buy the 34s, Mrs wanted to buy the 35s. Guess what we left with.
Got the clamps up and went to put the blinds up and it’s 3 mm too wide. Sigh, Will have to go back tonight and get the 34.
Got the clamps up and went to put the blinds up and it’s 3 mm too wide. Sigh, Will have to go back tonight and get the 34.
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I do like some of their music and they generally used awesome session musicians, but Becker was a ******. I dealt with him a time or two when his usual salesman was busy and was only too happy to say, "why don't I just set you up with some music in our best room until Vince is ready to help you out? Ok, bye."
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I do like some of their music and they generally used awesome session musicians, but Becker was a ******. I dealt with him a time or two when his usual salesman was busy and was only too happy to say, "why don't I just set you up with some music in our best room until Vince is ready to help you out? Ok, bye."
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Plot thickens. Our window measures 34.5 inches across. When we bought the blinds last night they came in either 34 or 35. I wanted to buy the 34s, Mrs wanted to buy the 35s. Guess what we left with.
Got the clamps up and went to put the blinds up and it’s 3 mm too wide. Sigh, Will have to go back tonight and get the 34.
Got the clamps up and went to put the blinds up and it’s 3 mm too wide. Sigh, Will have to go back tonight and get the 34.
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Having been born in '76, I grew up familiar with some of their songs but not knowing who they were by and didn't even have the inkling that some of these disparate songs were by the same band. It wasn't until my early-to-mid-20s that I learned, "oh, this is SD and this is SD, too. Oh... ew - this is SD, as well."
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Tumbelweed Connection came out my senior year. Along with Led Zeppelin III, Santana Abraxas, many others.
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