One of my mottos is "If you can't afford to have it done, you can't afford it". Now, people who know me might think that this is just a natural extension of my innate laziness. But in reality it's more of a self preservation thing. While I'm quite competent in building computer networks and the like, I'm a disaster waiting to happen when it comes to the "man" chores around the house.

Now the disturbing part is that my wife is fully aware of this, but continues to dole out the honey do's without hesitation. I don't know how many times I have heard, "Jay, I need you to do this. Oh, and don't screw it up and don't kill yourself". Ok, if you think I'm going to screw it up, why ask in the first place? I'm sure she honestly feels having me do it myself is the most economically sound course. And because it's a normal husband's job to be handy around the house, I should be too. But as with many people, I think the long term expense risk escapes her.

The latest example of this came about 8 weeks ago. She wanted to move a lot of furniture downstairs. Instead of having a mover come do it, she told me to go down to the gas station and fill the dolly tires with air so that we could move the furniture ourselves. I knew this was trouble, but off I went. About 40 minutes later, I called her from the ambulance to let her know that the task hadn't gone well. It seems I overinflated one of the tires causing it to explode resulting in a gaping leg wound. I'm pretty sure this little episode ended up being significantly more expensive than the mover would have been. Not to mention far more unpleasant.

The reason I'm writing about this now is that I happened to look up while backing out of the drive yesterday and saw the 2 new solar powered attic fans we had installed not long ago. At the time, I was informed that it would be my job to climb up on the roof to clean off the solar panels every month or two. Well, that's about how long it's been and there's no way my wife has learned any lessons. Any day now, I'm going to get the roof climbing orders with the "don't screw it up and don't kill yourself" speech. I know the probability of me doing both is high. So if you notice that the activity on this website stops, please remember me kindly and know that I was sacrificed in the line of duty.