My reputation as home improvement maven has been besmirched. I tried two projects yesterday, and both of them flopped. I tried to replace the vent from my dryer to outside. Turns out this stuff is made mostly of aluminum wrapped into a coil. The thing kept falling apart on me, and what started out as 15 feet turned into eight. Which comes up way short. So now I'm still venting moist air into my basement until I can buy more venting. Not good.

I also finally bought a drill so I could drill holes my wall to put up my curtain rods. The curtain rods I bought at about the same time I bought my living room furniture...yeah, that project's been sitting a while. So the drill bits I bought weren't big enough for the screw anchor thingers, and trying to force them into the wall with a hammer resulted in broken screw anchors. So now in addition to a bigger drill bit, I have to find screw anchors that are similar to the ones that came with the curtain rod.

After that I gave up and watched Lost and Alias. I was all excited when I thought they were going to kill someone off on Lost. I thought, "How Joss Whedonish!" and then they copped out. Cowards.