RL Blithering- Handiness!
So the trip to the airport in HK and back home was partly a pain because two of our suitcases? Had decided to start dying. The grabby handle of one was loose and not bearing any weight, and on both of them the pull-out handle was coming out at the *bottom*.
Anyhow, this evening I repaired them both, whee! Rattled around the old (as in, over ten years old) tin we have in the garage with screws, nuts, nails, washers, and assorted other fiddly bits from repairs, and found the screws and washers and nuts that I would need to resecure the handle and the bottoms of the suitcases. Pliers are your friend, my friends. I used those to alternately shape the pull-out handle bottoms back into shape, and to harass a stud into coming out (er, not that way, and yes this is a preventative comment for my perverse and perverted friends XD)
Shiny. It took me a couple hours to get the suitcases fixed, and now they work fine. Whee! In the process I discovered that a)the cloth lining can actually be unzipped, and I had to fix one where the zipped bits had pulled apart, and b)the shape of the suitcase is basically made from plastic. Sometimes brittle plastic. o.O I hope these hold together.
I really enjoy doing problem-solving like this, that uses my brain and my hands. I get a feeling of really doing something, of fixing or creating something. Also, I've kinda had to get used to doing these kinds of things, since the males in the household are all either disinclined or inept. So Mum and I (and occasionally my badgered lil bro since he is bigger and stronger than me, though he whines a lot about helping) have done most of the repair work around the house. C'est la vie, but I appreciate manual labor quite a lot. Especially as my grandmother used to cook for a living and she has been doing all sorts of manual labor since she was a young child, and she and Mom are teaching me to cook more now. Then there's all my hand-fidgetiness that gets channeled in knitting, paper crafts and gardening. Hee.
final note: watching futbol on Telemundo makes me laugh, mostly when the announcers go "Gooooooooooool! x5." Also it's cool that the tv has closed captioning, so then I can figure out the Spanish. ^^ Alas, Tunisia lost to Spain 3-1, with Spain scoring 3 goals in the last twenty minutes.
Anyhow, this evening I repaired them both, whee! Rattled around the old (as in, over ten years old) tin we have in the garage with screws, nuts, nails, washers, and assorted other fiddly bits from repairs, and found the screws and washers and nuts that I would need to resecure the handle and the bottoms of the suitcases. Pliers are your friend, my friends. I used those to alternately shape the pull-out handle bottoms back into shape, and to harass a stud into coming out (er, not that way, and yes this is a preventative comment for my perverse and perverted friends XD)
Shiny. It took me a couple hours to get the suitcases fixed, and now they work fine. Whee! In the process I discovered that a)the cloth lining can actually be unzipped, and I had to fix one where the zipped bits had pulled apart, and b)the shape of the suitcase is basically made from plastic. Sometimes brittle plastic. o.O I hope these hold together.
I really enjoy doing problem-solving like this, that uses my brain and my hands. I get a feeling of really doing something, of fixing or creating something. Also, I've kinda had to get used to doing these kinds of things, since the males in the household are all either disinclined or inept. So Mum and I (and occasionally my badgered lil bro since he is bigger and stronger than me, though he whines a lot about helping) have done most of the repair work around the house. C'est la vie, but I appreciate manual labor quite a lot. Especially as my grandmother used to cook for a living and she has been doing all sorts of manual labor since she was a young child, and she and Mom are teaching me to cook more now. Then there's all my hand-fidgetiness that gets channeled in knitting, paper crafts and gardening. Hee.
final note: watching futbol on Telemundo makes me laugh, mostly when the announcers go "Gooooooooooool! x5." Also it's cool that the tv has closed captioning, so then I can figure out the Spanish. ^^ Alas, Tunisia lost to Spain 3-1, with Spain scoring 3 goals in the last twenty minutes.