[Baz]

Originally Posted by jyl

My fixit day was all trivial stuff but it felt satisfying to get a whole lot of it done in 4 hours.

I took the kids to their college apartment on Saturday. This is my daughter's place and my son is moving in with her. It's a standard issue cheapo two bedroom student place in Eugene OR, meaning there's a lot of little things broken and the management company won't fix anything that doesn't actually make it uninhabitable. We get there, move in my son's stuff, I'm supposed to spend the night, but I look around and see dozens of little things that need doing. So I drive 2 hours home, the next morning I load some tools and drive 2 hours back. Start checking things off the list at 10:30 am, done and headed home at 2:30 pm.

What I did.
1. installed door chain (wife insists, for safety)
2. hung mirror
3. reversed refrigerator doors
4. installed 100 w daylight LED bulbs in bedrooms (had to extend the threaded whateveritis that the shade screws to, to fit the larger bulbs)
5. set up the espresso machine
6. oiled kitchen cabinets (they are utter crap cabinets, falling apart, but still do look a little better now)
7. oiled dining table
8. fixed hall closet door (it wouldn't close)
9. fixed bedroom #1 closet door (to the extent possible, it’s really a mess, but it closes now)
10. fixed outside light (wife insisted on this too, safety again)
11. installed daylight LED bulb in hall fixture (apartment was too dim, needed more “happy light”)
12. re-attached kitchen drawer face (glue, clamps, nails) - this isn't the first drawer face that's fallen off!
13. installed magnetic knife holder
14. installed 100 w equivalent daylight LED bulbs in kitchen (more happy light, had to extend the whateveritis)
15. installed brighter daylight LED bulbs in bathroom
16. put up hooks at entry to hang keys
17. set up dual monitors for son
18. pumped bike tires
19. fixed a broken "mood lamp" thingy
20. installed new swivel spray head for kitchen faucet (it was simply splashing water all over)

Dang John.......putting us all to shame!