New Things.

A little background is in order... so here goes. The door from the house
to the garage is quite heavy. In all it's heaviness it also closes
really hard if you just let it close itself. It has those springs built
into the hinges so it won't stay open. Anyway, the slamming of that door
(because it's so damn heavy) causes my house to shake. It's not so much
the shaking that bothers me but it shakes enough that it knocks things
off my desk, and even more irritating is that it rearranges my pin
sculpture of my hand. So finally, I'd had enough. Anyone who knows me
knows that this means its time to put on my redneck thinkin cap and get
to work. So, I've been on the hunt for a door closer that will moderate
the speed and intensity of the door closing. Yesterday at Harbor Freight
I found just such an object.
So yesterday after work I set upon installing this beast onto the door.
It took me 20 minutes of staring at the directions to finally understand
that I was trying to put it on the wrong fkn side of the door, then even
after I was on the right side, it still didn't really make sense until I
began installing it. The wife offered her 'words of wisdom' aka the 'do
it my way or else' talk. Well, let us just say that I'm sure I would
have figured it out alone but it works. And it works really well! I was
so stoked about it that I couldn't sleep last night. And when I finally
got some sleep it wasn't enough, so when I woke up this morning I opened
the door 5 or 6 times, just to watch it close! This is how very exciting
my life is. I've been reduced to watching a fkn door close. Wow.