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TRIGGER: DIY Disaster

July 20, 2008 at 10:47 pm · Filed under Triggers and tagged: , , , , , , , , , ,

 I’m a little late posting a Trigger this week, and that’s because I’ve been busy.

 
I thought I’d have a concerted effort to finish off the decorating in the downstairs loo.
 
Not a great task I hear you say…after all it’s known as the “smallest room in the house”.  Think again…
 
I’d already done most of it…constructing the vanity unit to house the washbasin, re-laying the wood floor edging, painting the ceiling. My wife had even painted all the woodwork.
 
All I had to do this weekend was design, construct and install a corner shelving unit, and fit new trimmings such as a new loo roll holder and towel rings.
 
Enter “Mr. DIY” with trusty electric drill, who measures up the wall, marks out where to drill for the new fitments, and duly proceeds to drill straight through an electric cable buried in the wall.
 
We now have no power to the Garage. or any outside power point, security lights, etc.
 
I think the Electrician’s bill to replace the damaged cable (hidden in the wall) is going to be more expensive than getting someone in to do all the work in the first place.
 
So the trigger is….

 

DIY Disaster (a.k.a. Electricity / Fused / Sparks)
Definition:
Letting an amateur do a professionals job
Seeing the lighter side (momentarily….while the sparks are brightest)
Getting a new hairstyle called ‘Shock Waves’
Trying to be ‘flash’…and succeeding
or…in truth……plain stupid!
 
TRACKS:
  • The Apparitions -Electricity and Drums (album: As This Is Futuristic) (2006)
  • Coldplay - Sparks (album: Parachutes) (2000)
  • Delta Goodrem – Electric Storm (album: Mistaken Identity) (2004)
  • Eddy Grant- Electric Avenue [Ringbang Remix] (2001)
  • Electric Six - Gay Bar (album: Fire) (2003)
  • Kanye West – Flashing Lights (album: Graduation) (2007)
  • The New Pornographers – Electric Version (album: Electric Version) (2003)
  • Pollo del Mar – A Flash of Green (album: Big Waves – Five Decades of Surf Rock) (2007)
  • Queen - Flash (album: Queen – The Platinum Collection: Greatest Hits I, II & III) (2002)
  • Royksopp- Sparks (album: Live EP-Royksopp’s Night Out) (2006)
  • Sparks – Let the Monkey Drive (album: Exotic Creatures of the Deep) (2008)

:o )

 

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TRIGGER: Dark

March 28, 2008 at 11:29 pm · Filed under Triggers and tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

What a week!   Four power failures in two days, some lasting for 9 hours.  We ended up with the supply coming from a generator truck for most of the week (which, incidentally, also blew the generator and caused yet another power outage!!!).  We reverted to candles for illumination, playing cards by torchlight for entertainment and my kids discovered that there are other things in life than MSN Messenger.Dark
So the trigger for today is:

dark  [d?rk] 

–adjective
1. having very little or no light
2. radiating, admitting, or reflecting little light
3. approaching black in hue
4. not pale or fair; swarthy
5. brunette; dark-colored
6. gloomy; cheerless; dismal
7. sullen; frowning
8. evil; iniquitous; wicked
–noun
9. the absence of light; darkness
10. night; nightfall
11. a dark place.
12. a dark color.
—Synonyms
dismal, cheerless, dim, obscure, gloomy, murky

Tracks:

  • Biirdie – You’ve Got Darkness (album:Morning Kills the Dark)  [Web] [Myspace]
  • Blue Bone Express – Darktown Strutters’ Ball [Web] [Myspace]
  • The Darkness – Friday Night (album: Permission to Land)  [Web] [Myspace]
  • Elton John – It’s Getting Dark In Here (album: Peachtree Road)  [Web]
  • The Hoosiers – Everything Goes Dark (album: The Trick to Life)  [Web] [Myspace]
  • KT Tunstall – Through The Dark (album: Eye To The Telescope)  [Web] [Myspace]
  • Richard Elliott – Candleight (album: After Dark)  [Web]
  • Tilly and the Wall – Rainbows in the Dark (album: Bottoms of Barrels)  [Web] [Myspace]
  • Natalie Brown – Let the Candle Burn (album:Let the Candle Burn)  [Web] [Myspace]
  • The Apparitions – Electricity and Drums (album:As This Is Futuristic)  [Web] [Myspace]
:o )

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