I’m not very good at fixing things.
This inability has brought me to tears on more than one occasion. Nothing is more frustrating than reading “THREE EASY STEPS!” on the package of your new Venetian blinds and then failing to progress beyond step one. To my credit, installing blinds actually takes about eight steps that have [...]
Entries Tagged as 'My father'
Fixing things
July 9th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Tags: My father · The Left-Handed Ferdingding · The house
Handwriting
June 29th, 2010 · 4 Comments
I noticed today that a coworker of mine has really excellent all-caps handwriting.
That made me think of my father, who must’ve taken a drafting class at some point in his life. He always wrote in all caps, using only the most pristine and perfectly-angled letters. Maybe he was an architect in a previous life.
Last summer, my mother [...]
Tags: My father · The Left-Handed Ferdingding
