I am a big screw-up
Sep. 25th, 2003 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ilanaramaWe're installing a radiant heating system in our house. This involves screwing a couple hundred aluminum plates onto the basement ceiling (i.e. the bottom of the floor). Britt and I work together for a while, him holding the plates to the ceiling, me operating the electric screwdriver (a cordless drill with a screwdriver bit) to tack them in place; then while he does Important Complicated Furnace Stuff, I go around to all the panels and screw them all in properly.
I hate screwing up. It hurts the neck, and it hurts the back. About the only thing it's good for is making jokes about how I've been screwing up all day, or screwing around all afternoon.
The best line I got was the evening after we'd completed installing the panels in what used to be the coal room, under the dining room. Here the foundation's kind of strange, and there's a big hump of dirt at the edges of the house, with only three feet or so of clearance to the ceiling. We laid old carpet on the dirt, and I scrunched in on my back and screwed in the aluminum panels above my head. Then when my parents (who were visiting for a week -- fortunately staying in a hotel) took us out to dinner, I confided to my mother that I was really hungry, since I'd been flat on my back screwing for two hours that afternoon.
I hate screwing up. It hurts the neck, and it hurts the back. About the only thing it's good for is making jokes about how I've been screwing up all day, or screwing around all afternoon.
The best line I got was the evening after we'd completed installing the panels in what used to be the coal room, under the dining room. Here the foundation's kind of strange, and there's a big hump of dirt at the edges of the house, with only three feet or so of clearance to the ceiling. We laid old carpet on the dirt, and I scrunched in on my back and screwed in the aluminum panels above my head. Then when my parents (who were visiting for a week -- fortunately staying in a hotel) took us out to dinner, I confided to my mother that I was really hungry, since I'd been flat on my back screwing for two hours that afternoon.