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building decks and hitting on girls
Tuesday, August 23 2005
Today was another day of milestones with the new solar deck. I added rails all the way around it, leaving a twenty inch gap at the northwest corner for the ladder or (perhaps) some sort of compact staircase if I should ever be lucky enough to find one. The tops of the rails rise forty inches above the deck and are comprised of two by sixes butted at right angles. They form a stiff surface that I can walk on if I'm feeling quasi-suicidal or need to reach up into the upside-down electronics bucket on the antenna mast to, say, plug in some new USB device.
All of my present focus on the deck, when it's just the initial part of a grand project to heat our household water with solar energy, has Gretchen wondering if perhaps I'm a little intimidated by all the plumbing work that needs to be done. The truth is that I am. But I was also intimidated by the prospect of building the deck, and now that I've taken the risk of trying to build it and somehow pulled it off, it's as if I asked the hottest girl at the party to go home with me and she said "Uh, like... totally!" The main difference with that analogy is that when you walk up to a girl at a party and hit on her (something I've never actually done, by the way), you're not usually wagering your success against the prospect of spending the balance of your life in a wheelchair. It's not surprising, then, that I want to make the deck perfect before I move on to the next step.
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