Ah. I didn’t put the rubber gasket on before I screwed in the blade plate… so the screws were too long. By adding the gasket, the plate becomes wider, and the screws don’t hit the mount before they tighten the plate. See I thought the gasket was optional. I’ve never put them on before and the fan mounted just fine. These assholes have to design their ceiling fans differently and make it all complicated.
Next week I’ll post pics of this screened-in porch we just built…or should I say ‘I’ because David did only twenty percent of the work, and badly at that. Show you people what happens when you give Zoot some good tools and a lumber package.
I hear that a nice strong cup of coffee helps in opening up the mind. Or you might want to just go pull some woman off the street. She could probably do it easily.
Where exactly are you hanging it - I mean on what ceiling?
The Sacred Stones, by William Sarabande -excellent novel.
Reading some of the reviews for this novel, people seem to either love this book or hate it. I think I know why this is. If you start with the premise that all our fools (Young or old, great or small, ugly or beautiful, man or woman, good or bad), then this is a story that more or less confirms that premise, and the few who do obtain true wisdom share a fate similar to Socrates. As to why people either love this novel or hate it, I think its because we can all identify with at least one of the characters in this story, even though the novel is set in prehistoric times. Those who cannot accept that humanity is a race of fools would probably hate this novel. Those who have accepted this and can recognize their own foolishness would probably enjoy this novel.
Sophie’s World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
Jostein Gaarder
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%27s_World
I loved this book, being that I’m kind of in the basement as a philosopher, it was wonderful. It’s like my bible.
Paris The Novel
Edward Rutherfurd
h-france.net/fffh/maybe-missed/e … the-novel/
I so love historical novels. This one at times was a bit confusing insofar as the chronology is concerned.
You really have to re-adjust your mind to the chronological changes and characters. It gets a bit disorienting like traveling back and forth in time without any notice. But it was so highly interested. I don’t think that I would have given it the ending that Rutherfurd did either but I guess it worked.
A children’s book but I so enjoyed it. Wasn’t bored for an instant. More delicious read at night in the silence when all are asleep but yourself. Loved the character Bod Owens.
Just beginning to read this. Maybe I should finish The Eight first and then devote my undivided attention to it.
Looking forward to it. I eat this stuff up though I have to ruminate quite some time.
I’m reading Dante’s Inferno. The translation is by Esolen. It’s very good. He doesn’t write in poetry, but he uses poetic devices such as end rhyme and alliteration. It’s powerful prose. This book reminds me of when passions trump reason, and the prices we pay when we let it so. I’m half way through, but I must say, it is getting tiresome watching so many people burning in hell for eternity. What about the Christan virtue of mercy? Dante’s hell is a dark place indeed.
On a side note, I’m sad that I had to look so far down to resurrect this thread.
I wrote a book myself, three years ago, called The Representative; since then I haven’t read fiction, although I did read some Asimov shortly after finishing writing my own book.