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~inquiry

A couple additional examples that happened just this morning as I was trying to accomplish a few home repair/upgrade thingies:

- In the basement are a couple panes of window glass that have fallen a bit in the frame, letting cold air in. So I wanted to measure those panes to glue something transparent over them to cover those air-friendly spaces. But it was a difficult reach with the tape measure due to circumstances that would be too difficult to describe in text. However, Murphy came to help by causing the end of the tape measure to enter and catch one of those openings in a way that I couldn't wiggle it out. In fact, wiggling made it *worse*, somehow causing that tape measure end to bury itself even more deeply... so I had to disrupt the flow of the measuring in order to struggle into a cobweb-infested space in order to get close enough to the situation to effect meaningful change. But as described earlier in this thread, the nature of the overall situation was that measuring a couple window panes should have taken about 20 seconds.. but I spent a solid 5 minutes struggling to free the effing end of the effing tape measure from a space that I couldn't *intentionally* thread (with that tape measure end) in a million years. But for Murph it's just BOOM! LET THE FRUSTRATION FLOOD IN UNABATED, BABY!!!

- At some point I was carrying a couple things in my right hand, including a sweatshirt I'd removed and a hammer. I kind of had my right hand positioned about mid chest to keep the sweatshirt from dragging.. but Murphy *tripped me* :-) in a way that I stepped on the sweatshirt, leading to some imbalance, leading to pounding the bottom of the hammer handle into my chin during the recoil/correction.

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~tetris wrote (thread):

it's kind of horrifying and inspiring in some way to know that we, individually and collectively, are somehow still alive despite ourselves :-D