Monocular Vision

Yes, I’m so proud of myself, I decided to write a quarterly blog post about it.

We discovered a few months ago that the garbage disposal was leaking water under the sink whenever is was used.  Being the dutiful, thoughtful husband I am, I promptly put something underneath it so the water wouldn’t leak and then dutifully planned to replace it…. someday.

Unfortunately, God has a way of not letting me procrastinate anymore, and He promptly broke it completely last night.  Now, I’m pretty sure we could have lived with that leak for years (true story: there is a crumpled up Coca Cola can inside one of our ceiling light fixtures up stairs that has been there since we moved in.  It was placed there by someone who worked on the house).  But nooooo, God decided that it was time to replace it.

I don’t mind working the house, exactly, but I do hate trips to the home improvement store.  Typically the process looks like this:

1. Drive to Lowe’s to pick up necessary parts and tools.
2. Drive home.
3. Work on home improvement project.
4. Realize I am missing necessary parts and/or tools.
5. Goto #1

Now, I realize a lot of you aren’t programmers, but I’m sure you can see that this simple algorithm doesn’t terminate.  Or least, it feels like it never does.

However, I’m so proud of myself this time because I skipped steps #4 and #5.  Last night, we drove to Lowe’s after a Friday evening visit to our favorite restaurant, Chick-Fil-A, and proceeded to purchase a brand new garbage disposal that I installed this morning in about an hour.  As in one hour.  I know, right?

Just to prove to you that the fix took place, here is our cruddy, old garbage disposal:

And here is the new one, all nicely installed and without leaks (so far, knock on wood):

A nice bit of hardware work from a guy that specializes in software.