So in part 1, I brought home a sad little lamp from our trashroom.

This is the post where this sad little lamp is sad no more! Now it's a graceful fancypants lamp!

I went to IKEA and picked up the parts: $4.99 for a GRUNDTON (table lamp kit) and $8.99 for two SPARSAM flourescent bulbs. I'm only going to count this fix as costing $4.99+$4.50=$9.50 because I only use one of the bulbs. We have another IKEA lamp that takes this size bulb so the extra will just be a household spare.

Anyway, I happened to be meeting someone to sell some old laptop RAM for $10 today. So today's net dollar spend is zero!

On to the pictures!

Make sure the lamp isn't DOA before I get my grubby mitts on it...

It took almost 2 hours to get to this far... the grundton wire was thicker than the original and it was really tough getting it through the neck. Oh! And I took a break to get my 10 bucks....

Me and electricity understand each other perfectly. I remain scared of it, and I remain alive.  If I really did mess up the wire while pushing and pulling through the lamp neck... I was wondering if those rubber tipped stanleys would really insulate me from 1.21 jiggawatts of instant teeth clenching....?

And now some glamour shots! Old Lamp, this is YOUR time to SHINE!!!!!1

"Why's that sticker there," you ask? Well, it's because.... Old Lamp is sitting on top of DialupPC's case!  DialupPC is now our Windows Home Server (simply the awesomest backup/fileshare OS. Ever.)

That's all, folks!

-Dean :)

I really need to stop bringing stuff home...

With Ying and Bonnie out of town, there's just no stopping me!

I found this today. It looked kind of sad in the trashroom. And I felt bad thinking that it might end up at the dump. The cord is frayed and it's all tarnished. The light part is easy... just go to ikea and get a little light set for a few bucks. 

But the metal part of the lamp... is it brass? How do I polish this up?

Does anyone know?

Read Part 2 - Old Lamp is fixed!

I just took out the trash and what do I find in our beloved trashroom? A couple of old empty digital camera boxes with manuals and other misc things. Sorry no cameras (I wish!).  But there were some things among the instruction manuals and bubble wrap that caught my eye...

Woohoo!!! Scored again. Ok, not as great as the TV I scored last month, but still! Man I love our trashroom.

Here's a picture of if unwrapped. Yes, it was brand new. I haven't bothered opening the universal screen protector package yet. I don't think I'll have a use for that... I'll probably just bring it to the office and put it in my junk drawer.

Until next time... :)

諧星就是這樣造就出來的!真的沒有枉費她爹娘的一番苦心啊...

http://picasaweb.google.com/deanying/20090421BonnieFacialExpressions?authkey=Gv1sRgCInnurKp69STSw&feat=directlink#

粉圓小姐如果能變成女版豬哥亮,相信大家也覺得與有榮焉吧.

先用這個表情練習一下......"冷涼卡好"咧.........

週末老爺與我和粉圓造訪海邊,逛著逛著,看到有人在碼頭旁的餐廳牆上畫壁畫,沒有照片沒有風景,全憑那人腦袋裡的想像,顏色有深有淺有暗有明,真的是很厲害.

老爺與我讚嘆之餘,也討論起關於"天份"這東西......

老爺:每個人多少都有某方面的天份,像我就覺得會畫畫的人真的好厲害,你看剛剛那個人,你畫得出那樣的東西嗎?

老娘:當然不可能啊!是啊!有人就是很厲害修機械的東西,有人很會認路,有人對音樂很敏銳,有人對繪畫在行..還有好多.

老爺:我也覺得我一點都沒有畫畫方面的天份.

老娘:ㄟ.....那你看得出來我們粉圓小姐將來長大會有什麼天份嗎?

老爺:(靜思了三秒鐘,然後緩緩說出)嗯,我覺得她的天份應該是...................................................

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說笑話............!

老娘:........................................(冏好大.這種天份是像誰????)

劉粉圓小姐,你可以再像妳爸一點沒關係.....

我跟老爺抱怨說,因為他女兒跟他太相似的關係,害得我身心俱疲.為什麼捏?

平常白天老爺明明去上班了,只有我跟粉圓在家,可是因為長的太像她老爹,讓我老是有老爺還在家裡的錯覺.

晚上,明明粉圓已經上床睡覺去,因為長的太像,老爺在旁邊上網時,我總覺得粉圓也還在.....

好累啊....這兩個父女的臉龐很像背後靈,到哪裡都散不去....