I’m sitting in my office on a relatively cool day in Southwest Florida: 78 degrees with some clouds. It’s beautiful.
I’ve been a busy boy lately, and apologize for hiding in the basement like I was a presidential candidate. Not that I have a basement here, because I live in the Everglades. But you get my drift.
The last two days were spent at my church replacing ceiling fans. For those of you who do not live in hot climates, or who have air conditioning and have never had the joy of NEEDING a fan, they come in all shapes and sizes. I’ve got six in my house, running from 52 to 72 inches. Some are three speed, some are remote controlled with infinite speed range (it looks like a Kamov-25 when it goes to top speed)
some are easy to install, others require me to grow hair to rip out.
The church install was a team effort with my friend Brian. After a few minutes of deep thought, we figured out a system and went to work. He preassembled the fans to the point where they’d go up the ladder easily, and I went around the church taking down the old ones. The old ones weighed in at 1.5 tons each, so it was a challenge. I’d prep the monster, Brian would come to take the beast after I detached it, and then I’d continue to remove the old base parts.
We even managed to replace one at the apex of the ceiling over the altar with no bad words, no injuries, and the two of us not falling off ladders. God was definitely involved.
But that’s not even the big thing I’ve been doing: I finished another audio book this week. I had started it before my wife’s gallbladder exploded in a subatomic blast, life went in the tank with the flu, and all the other interruptions that were life. My original goal was to be done by Christmas. But I managed to finish it before Ash Wednesday, so that’s pretty good.
I’ll announce the title after she trumpets the news to her readers: don’t want to steal the thunder. It should be on sale around the 20th of March if ACX/Audible are up to speed. Title and cover art will be announced once I have a date.
Now, out to water the trees. My time for not thinking too hard each day.
I hope you have a blessed day.
[Ed: actual fan weight may have been a completely made up number.]
LOL, well you are a better and braver man than I! I bought a ceiling fan years ago for my former apartment in Burbank (the one you visited), but after reviewing the instructions and my ceiling, I said screw it, and returned the fan. Last year, my friend/employer commissioned me to install a very heavy, remote-controlled, two-level, lighted ceiling fan in his den. I worked for a day assembling the fan, opening the area, clearing and marking the wires, etc. But finally I said… screw that too. He hired a real fan guy to finish the job. I like what ceiling fans do, but getting there? Me no like.
Life time installs, over 20. They get easier with each one – except for the two giant 72 inch remote controlled ones we did this past year. They had the smallest base cup of all I’ve done, and you had to jam a gigantic remote switch in the thing. Pure hell.
Hilarious!
(And thank you beyond words.)