self-congratulation
Jun. 26th, 2012 02:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incandescensI am feeling unduly pleased with myself because I managed to change the battery in my smoke detector. Yes, I know, this doesn't really deserve a great deal of self-congratulation, but it's the first time I'd done it.
And now that damn beeping has stopped. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.'
-- The Man Who Was Thursday, GK Chesterton
And now that damn beeping has stopped. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.'
-- The Man Who Was Thursday, GK Chesterton
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