Men in Toolbelts

[lokheed]

It's been a very productive day over at my mom's place. For starters I fixed the swing in the front yard. It's your basic "throw a couple of ropes around a thick branch" kind of swing, and one of the ropes came untied yesterday. Since it happend when my kid was playing on it, I kind if figured it was my resposibility to fix it as well. I shimmied up the tree, crawled out on the limb, and re-tied the rope with a figure-eight self-tightening knot that I learned from rock climbing. I figure if that kind of knot can hold my rather substantial mass while scaling a rock face, it should hold a kid on a swing just fine.

Then I moved on to installing a ceiling fan in the computer room. In order to get it up I first had to remove the existing electrical box and install a brace between the studs that would safely carry the weight of the fan. I installed a new electrical box and mounted the fan's hanging strap to it, then wired everything up and assembled the fan blades and such. Now my mom has a nice cool breeze while she plays her games, so that's pretty cool.

Am I qualified to sign up to work on Monster House yet?