alex chiang: web 6.0

Luckily, I did not win a Darwin Award today, although I came damn close. At some point, I decided that I needed to trim a tree that was growing too close to the roof on my house. So I went to Home Depot and bought myself a 1.5 horsepower electric chainsaw.

First, getting on to the roof was challenging. I ended up crawling out of an upper story window, after ruining a recalcitrant screen that simply wouldn’t come out the easy way. Once up on the roof, I learned that it was a LOT steeper than I originally thought. My plan of sauntering around waving a chainsaw at random branches quickly changed, as I realized that the plan sucked.

I did manage to cut a few branches down, but not without slipping a few times and risking both a bone breaking fall as well as accidental amputation before retreating.

It’s scary to think I can rationalize some of the past Darwin Award winners as simply getting a bad rap and not being able to put a positive spin on just what the hell they were doing.

In other news, continuing along the lines of home improvement, I borrowed a hedge clipper to tame the shrubbery in the front yard. The improvement is quite noticable, and just goes to show that a well-trimmed bush is a fine sight to behold.