surprises

[magid]

i went home last night to find a bunch of messages on the machine. one was from a friend calling in the middle of the afternoon to see if i was home, when he knows i'm at work then. odd. so once i finished checking email, i called back. had i been in the kitchen, he asked. no. so i dragged the phone (you know, one of those old-fashioned kinds, with a cord of finite length) into the kitchen, to find he'd come over and changed the lightswitch in my kitchen! it had been a push-on one, that at every shabbat dinner with new friends i'd had to mention they shouldn't lean back and turn out. now it's a more regular flip up and down one, but with a shield over it, so on shabbat there won't be accidents. then he told me it's also a dimmer switch. very cool. and he left my new (though not yet paid-for) power drill (low-end, but very cheap. my first power tool!) recharging in the corner, too. (maybe now i'll finally take the sukkah down? yeah, right)

it felt like i'd had a visit from mechanically-inclined elves, especially nice because it was so unexpected...

Comments

[gingicat]

Very cool! If it's the friend I suspect, he just re-earned his place on my A-list. :)

friends

[magid.livejournal.com]

probably is :-)

i think i tend to go for greater anonymity for people mentioned in my journal b/c of the (jewish) laws against gossiping/slander, which i was trying to keep fairly seriously for a while. it's hard, not talking about people (even things that you know are true). i'm not as good about it now as i'd like to be, but when there's no particular need for someone to be referred to individually, i try not to... (i suppose it might be different if the person in question had a lj - it's always interesting to see what other people write about you, even if it's just as part of a "i went to see x in the company of y" sort of thing.)
(i've been having an embedded parentheses sort of morning. must stop now lest it creep in here, too!)