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The handyman was supposed to be here between ten and eleven. At a little after one, I got his number from Andrea and gave him a call. He'd forgotten about us. After I reminded him, he did manage to find his note with our address and everything on. He's going to finish a faucet he's doing and then come by.

Do you know, I actually don't mind that he forgot? I took the day off work for this and have been waiting here for him instead of going out to get food, but at least he will still get here today. He sounded like a really nice guy on the phone; I have a fatherly sort of image of this older gentleman who's skilled with tools and just enjoys using them. His voice was very disarming.

The other reason I'm just as happy he forgot is kind of odd. It puts me in a position of power. See, I'm not good at dealing with people to begin with. To be in a situation where I have to talk to someone I don't know, invite him into a messy house, and ask him to fix things that I've broken puts me in a very uncomfortable position. The fact that he forgot and apologized for it and is coming over late to do the work gives me this strange mental edge.

It probably sounds like I'm into power and control games. I'm not. Really. It's very unusual for me that I'm conscious of and act on that sort of thing. I don't know if there's really something wrong about it or not. I'd never be blunt enough to directly acknowledge it with him either. I'm the sort of person who apologized to people who move into my way for me wanting to go where they are. But, in that weird, selfish way, I'm glad to have something that puts me on a more even footing here. Is that so wrong?

On the other hand, if I am evil, according to a note I got from him on the LAFF list, tygercowboy apparently has to cover me with marshmallow and pink bows. Now, I dunno about getting marshmallow fluff out of my fur, but I wouldn't entirely object to the pink bows. *giggles*

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EDIT:

Handydude got here and all went swimmingly. He had no issue at all with the number of problems and when he said he was a mason I got to tell him about my godfather being one too and he was just really pleasant and easygoing and extremely apologetic about being late without me having said a word about it. Crisis averted! He didn't have all the parts he needed, but he'll be back tomorrow when Andrea gets home to finish up.

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How is it that despite using the same set of disks I used to setup up my tablet, I cannot for the life of me make the one that I'm setting up for my brother behave? Gah.

I have too much stuff. This is, I'm sure, immediately evident to anyone who has seen my basement or computer room. I'm using some of my time home today (though not as much as I really should be since I keep getting distracted by ephemera) to work on that. I have Ebay copy written for a couple things and have updated my account there with the current address and current card. I'm also going to post a few more things on Freecycle. Before I do that, I want to offer them here.

Also, for those who may be in the know, what's the policy on posting in places like the LAFF email list or on the Livejournal community to offer free hardware? If I don't hear back from any of y'all here, I guess I'll just ask one of the maintainers or mods.

But to start with:

• I have several Travan tape drives that I don't need. sideband, do you still want some? Are you going to be in the area any time soon?
  
• I have a 200Mhz Pentium Pro server in good shape.
  
• I have a big (and I mean stupid-big) dual Pentium Pro 200 server (one CPU) with a hot-swap RAID backplane. It's a very nice looking IBM PC Server 330; maybe some case-mod possibilities?
  

These are going to Freecycle with boot-n-nuked drives in the next week or so unless someone wants them.

I have got to get this place organized.