Need to finish glossing my office. Its been 3 weeks….

Seems like your jobs take less than 5 minutes from start to finish. The 10yr wait for the start point is just your life that you have spent doing better things.

I sold a house and emigrated so I did not have to fix the tiles in my last house’s kitchen

Bought a car 3 and a half years ago to steal the gearbox out of. Finally finished scrapping the car last month. The gearbox is now safely in the shed where it can remain for, oh, the entire rest of my life probably without getting fitted to the other car.

I still have some things to hang up from our wedding, 9 years ago….

I still have some things to hang up from our wedding, 9 years ago….

I was invited for a “five minute pint” on the way home from lectures one day by a mate who “needed” to meet his gf at the uni bar. His gf “happened” to invite her single friend, who apparently had spotted me a week before putting up a tent in fetching purple fleece (hey, it was 1993) and now “recognised” me.
29 years later and we’re still needing a “five minute pint” when the single friend, now my wife, and our friends, now also married, meet up….

So no, there is no such thing as a “quick” job or honest mates it seems… 😉

All jobs.

I have a to-do app where with a click you can bump tasks back 24hrs. Some of the tasks have been on there longer than I’ve had my current done – they transferred over when I switched.

It should be called a to-don’t app really.

putting up a tent in fetching purple fleece

FNAR! She spotted your tentpole, eh!

A quick splash of paint, wash the carpet, make simple desk, convert unused single room into wife’s office…

Or.
Full redecoration, New light fitting, new carpet, bespoke wraparound desk, move/extend electric socket, erect shelves. Oh and some double-glazing while I’m at it.

It’s no wonder I put things off.

1989, started a BSc in electronic engineering. Failed two exams in second year, couldn’t be arsed anymore so left with HND. Roll on 1999, convinced employer to let me do a part time BSc in physics. Got made redundant in 2002, before I could finish it. Changed industry, so not worth completing. Still not got back to it.

Edit – soz, not really a two minute job!

Back in 1997 I fitted a new TV aerial to the rear of my parent’s house so I could have a TV in my room, they had Sky and the old aerial was broken. I moved out in 2007 and I still hadn’t finished tidily running the cable from it’s entry point to the socket.

It’s still exactly as I left it in 1997 now despite my dad asking me to do it multiple times! No point now though as the new aerial was broken sometime around 2015.

Reminds me, keep meaning to arrange a date night with the wife

Sanding the perma-gloss off the beams in the study:

Currently 10 years, two bloody expensive belt sanders and part of my soul.

For me a regular one is fixing things on my commuter. Towards the end of the life of the pads when the brakes aren’t quite as good as they used to be, so I subtly adjust my riding and braking to suit. Then when I change the pads I always wonder why I didn’t do it sooner.

Same as occasions when the indexing goes a bit wonky for some reason. I live with it for ages, then eventually it gets so bad I actually fix it, usually in a couple of minutes, and wonder why it took so bloody long to get round to.

2003 i went to my partners parents house for the first time and was frustrated by the kitchen door requiring a aggressive shove to close.

2022 undid the screws on the latch plate, spent less then 20 seconds with a kitchen knife scraping out some crud, refitted and the door swings closed with the lightest touch.