Do you try and fix it right away ? Or do you wait until you have the time to fix it ? Need at example ? Great I have one. Your kitchen table need to be adjusted (wobbly). Do you wait to do that. Or does it bother you to no end. My problem has been leaves. I rack the yard way to often. Or if your handle on a kitchen cabinet is loose do you wait till you have a screw driver in the house to fix it or do you go right away to fix it. The other night I broke the audio connection in the back of my TV. Audio cable broke clean of in the socket. This happened after drinking afew brown bottles. So I decided at 12:30 to take my TV of the wall and disconnect everything from the back of it. Then try retreve the broke cord inside the TV. I ended up going to bed at 3 in the morning with nothing fixed and my TV torn apart. I woke up mad about it at 7 and went downstairs and had it fixed and mounted back on the wall by 8ish. I should have waited but I make bad judgement calls when something breaks. I feel like it should be fixed right that moment. I should wait and fix it. It screwed the whole day up for me. Lack of sleep blah blah blah.
When something is broken.
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Springsteen
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I try to fix it right away. It bothers me otherwise.
Peter Parka
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Depends if it's important in my life or not. Computer - yes, telly - yes, wonky bookshelf -no.
Alien Allen
Froggy the Prick
Just because of the example you mentioned I use judgment as to whether to fix it right away. Some things I will put off and others drive me nuts and I have to fix right away. Generally anything that is too involved I will not do at night or on the weekend.
I generally try and fix something right away but there was this one time with a broken drawer in the kitchen. A screw came out of the rail and it was out of position because of that. It took me a good year to " get 'er done " only because Mrs. Guyzerr wouldn't shut up about it. :24: When I did get at it it was fixed quicker than the time it took to get the screwdriver. 
If something is broken in the house now she just mentions it once. :clap
If something is broken in the house now she just mentions it once. :clap
I will fix things that aren't working straight away.
I will leave things that are sort of working, or working with difficulty until they become one of the things that aren't working; where I will fix them straight away as mentioned above.
I will leave things that are sort of working, or working with difficulty until they become one of the things that aren't working; where I will fix them straight away as mentioned above.
CaptainTurtles
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Most things here on the boat are specifically made to fit in here, and really, if it's in here.. it's because it NEEDS to be. Obviously no dining tables, bookshelfs and you know, pieces of furniature just because. So if something here brakes, it usually really needs to be fixed, like straight away.
Most recent example is our surround sound system. We no longer had the reciever but still had the speakers all in place so went out to buy a new reciever. Found out it was cheaper to buy the whole home theatre system instead of just the reciever. Brought it home and decided we'd use the new speakers as they were way nicer. So because all the cables were already in place and wired throughout the boat we REALLY wanted to keep it that way. End of the story is I spent 11 hours yesterday soldering the old wires onto the new speakers, as the ends to go into the reciever were different I had to change them around. Then a couple of trips back and forth to best buy, mounting/screwing the speakers back into place. Plus one hour this morning (on top of the some five hours the night before) getting the settings just right for my PS3 to have surround sound.
But yeah anyways, when something is broken here on the boat is usually NEEDS to be a quick fix. The puppy chewed through an antena for our xfm radio so the hubby replaced that while I was soldering and tackling the surround sound. Replacing the antenna meant figuring out a better way to have it so it doesn't get chewed again which ended up in drilling through the cockpit etc, even small things are generally more complicated here just because of the setup.
And as well if you don't keep on top of things here, then you're just going to end up with a really run down boat.
Most recent example is our surround sound system. We no longer had the reciever but still had the speakers all in place so went out to buy a new reciever. Found out it was cheaper to buy the whole home theatre system instead of just the reciever. Brought it home and decided we'd use the new speakers as they were way nicer. So because all the cables were already in place and wired throughout the boat we REALLY wanted to keep it that way. End of the story is I spent 11 hours yesterday soldering the old wires onto the new speakers, as the ends to go into the reciever were different I had to change them around. Then a couple of trips back and forth to best buy, mounting/screwing the speakers back into place. Plus one hour this morning (on top of the some five hours the night before) getting the settings just right for my PS3 to have surround sound.
But yeah anyways, when something is broken here on the boat is usually NEEDS to be a quick fix. The puppy chewed through an antena for our xfm radio so the hubby replaced that while I was soldering and tackling the surround sound. Replacing the antenna meant figuring out a better way to have it so it doesn't get chewed again which ended up in drilling through the cockpit etc, even small things are generally more complicated here just because of the setup.
And as well if you don't keep on top of things here, then you're just going to end up with a really run down boat.
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