Entry for 9th July, 2008

I have completed another of my 100STIs (Small But Tangeible Improvements). This time I have - wait for it - glued down a piece of carpet.
Yes. Yes. I know that it's not enormously exciting, but it was a tiresome little irritation that I've been failing to get round to for a good three or four months. And now that the job is complete I am basking in the afterglow that only comes (in my experience) with (a) the completion of a DIY task, and (b) an hour in the nudey sauna with the Danish women's water polo team.
It is curious how one's manhood is re-affirmed when one has to get the toolbox out. I felt the testosterone surge as I squirted wood glow onto the firm but yielding carpet backing. I felt primeval uges as I gently but firmly pressed the axminster to the floor.