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Every dog has his day …

Yesterday was one of those rare days when everything I did worked on the first try. — My Big Green Egg was sick, and I needed to replace a carriage bolt that holds the lid on. I went to the hardware store, bought numerous variations of carriage, nut, bolt, washer … you name it … […]

Yesterday was one of those rare days when everything I did worked on the first try.

— My Big Green Egg was sick, and I needed to replace a carriage bolt that holds the lid on. I went to the hardware store, bought numerous variations of carriage, nut, bolt, washer … you name it … expecting to have to do a lot of slogging to make it work. When I got back, the first one I picked out worked, and I was eating mesquite smoked trout within a few humble hours. Praise the Big Green Egg.

— I needed a few screws for the hot and cold water knobs in the shower above the garage. Again, I chose several variations of screw, hoping to stumble upon the right one. When I got home, the first package I opened worked perfectly.

— After considerable debate at the hardware store, I picked a tarp to cover my woodpile. Would 20×12 be big enough? Yup. Perfect.

— The furnace stopped working yesterday. After much fretting and swearing, I broke down and checked the air filter. Dirty. Clogged. After I cleaned that sucker, I said, let there be heat. And there was heat.

— Joanne sent me a “God” detector, a small, compass-like device that measures god’s presence. As soon as I pulled it out of the package. The dang thing went nuts. Hmmm.

— And finally, I fixed this blog this morning. After I upgraded my server plan, nothing worked. After a bit of tinkering this a.m., I figured out the problem. Some root paths had changed in the migration. The path to perl had shifted. And bang. It was fixed.

Today I’m going to build a fire, read James Joyce and hide. Nothing good can happen after yesterday’s windfall …