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"I'd rather be a knee-jerk liberal than a circle-jerk conservative" -- Roy Zimmerman (thanks to darrenzieger in whose journal I spotted it.

Body Frustration

I had an invitation to go do something fun this evening that required very little expenditure of energy to enjoy. Alas, by the time I was ready to leave the house, I was too tired to drive there. :-( I really should've predicted that I'd be too tired after a two-performance-day weekend (all the more so considering how I felt at the end of each of those two days), but I'd made the mistake of letting myself look forward to the possibility too much, so now I'm feeling extremely disappointed.

I hope I'm up to goin to rehearsal tomorrow night. *sigh*

Tool Frustration

Okay, this could be worse -- I could have stripped the head of the screw -- but it's still both frustrating and unnerving to watch the tip of a tiny Phillips screwdriver shave its flanges off against a stubborn itty-bitty screw. Little black metal shavings, and a screwdriver that now has a funny (and no longer useful) shape and a bright, shiny nubbin where the center of the screw's head didn't cut.

I hope I can get the other screws back in later without a trip to a hardware store first. (I've carved tools out of steel rod with a Dremel before, and converted an X-Acto blade to a screwdriver before, but this is a little finer than what I've made in the past. I wonder whether I've got a steady enough hand to carve a Phillips tip this small.)

Those of you inclined to giggle at the image of a screw demolishing a screwdriver may proceed to do so, as long as you also wish me luck putting this thing back together later.