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I have this old filing cabinet that I bought from IKEA years back. Today we were cleaning the apartment and I had a super cool idea:

I’ll make the bottom drawer a compartment for our Internet hookups (modem and wireless router).

So I head out to Home Depot and buy a few pieces of hardware that I think I’ll need.

First I took the drawer apart to figure out how best to convert it to a new type of door. Rather than have the drawer pull out on the track, I added two hinges at the bottom for it to open almost like a cabinet drawer. It took a little while to get this part right. I first put the hinges on the inside and quickly realized that had I fully attached them to the cabinet, either the drawer would never opened or never shut. I thought the project was over. But then I just decided to put the hinges on the outside and not care. The joys of not caring about things FTW.

After I got that working, I added a small “catcher” inside the drawer. Something to keep the drawer door from coming open. I don’t really know what it’s called. Some kind of latch. One part, metal, is attached to the door. Another part, metal with two plastic rubbery wheels, is attached inside the cabinet on the wall. When the door closes, the metal part on the door wraps around the plastic rubbery wheel and sticks.

Presto bingo. I made something today.

I used my screw driver (Phillips-head and flat-head), hammer, tiny nails, level, pencil, box cutter, straight edge, and … pliers.

Check out some pictures and video.

Well, I was just sitting around today and the thought hit me:

I could probably blog about being married now.

So I changed my subtitle. Now that doesn’t mean that I’m going to stop writing about my normal things, it just means you’re going to get a lot more stories that I might not have told before.

As a married man now, I have inherited a few more responsibilities. One of which is doing the laundry.

I hate doing the laundry.

But I think I got a pretty sweet deal going right now. If I have to help to do the laundry, I might as well try to make it worth my while.

I hate folding clothes.

To me, putting the clothes in the washer and moving the them to dryer is a lot easier than folding them. So, Amanda has agreed that I will put them in and she will take them out.

So far so good.

I was getting ready to wash a load of towel when I noticed that the place where you put the fabric softener had some dust/dirt in it. So I took it out and went into the kitchen to rinse it out. Upon further inspection I noticed that the thing was in two parts. I took it apart and almost vomited. It was disgusting in there. (But we did get the thing for the great price of free, so I can’t really complain.) Amanda said the substance that was all over the inside felt like peanut butter. I think that it looked like yellow Vaseline. So put those two descriptions together and close your eyes.

So I ended up washing the thing out. I went back to put it in and noticed the that tube it sat in was EVEN DIRTIER. Oh man. I thought, “I’ve already got the gloves on, I might as well wash that thing too.” So I did. It looked like it had bits of paper caked to the sides. The dirt wasn’t just washing off, it was flaking off in chunks. It was tangible and stuck together. I joking told Amanda that we had had a paper factory in our laundry room this whole time and never knew it. Man, just think off all the money we could have been saving on computer paper when all we had to do was continue washing clothes.

Oh well.

Moral of the story:

Even the thing that makes things clean may not be clean.

This is REALLY funny to me. Colbert does a great job of really firing back at him.

I think Colbert might be Catholic?

Best part comes at 3:43 and it is worth listening to.

Oh man a lot has happened in the past two weeks. Not only did I get married, but I traveled over Cuba on the way to Jamaica for the honeymoon. Professional pictures will come in in about 4-5 weeks, so for now I have pictures that were taken on my personal, digital camera up on my Flickr feed.

Also, I’ve had to say the word ‘wife’ on the phone like three times today. Each time it was unnatural and I alsmost didn’t want to say it.

I really wish I had time to write more, but I have husbandly responsibilities now. Not only does that sound SUPER WEIRD, I again hate chores.