Life on the Road

It's been a week since I updated this blog. The reason: One week's worth of training in Wilmington, Delaware. They say that travel broadens you, and I agree. I put on 5 pounds in one week. Actually, it was an agreeable week. There was one thing I found disturbing about that particular patch of the east coast. There was the general lack of home improvement stores.

I commented on this with a person from the area, and they agreed. Not only was there a general lack of the big box home improvement stores, there was also a generalized dearth of hardware stores. At that very moment, I knew that I had entered a warp of some sort that that transported me to a bizzaro world where up was down, right was left, and even minor home improvements were contracted out.

You have to understand that I am from the Detroit area. There are more engineers per square foot here than there are anywhere else on the planet. Each of those engineers knows that if civilization was wiped off this earth, they could single handedly rebuild it all. If you add that to the people who rebuild cars in their garage, and the outdoorsmen, you get a great deal of can do attitude around here. My next door neighbor, for example, builds homes as a retirement hobby. I have seen men around here get teased because they didn't know that concrete driveways needed to be sloped one quarter bubble away from the house.

In Detroit, it is hard to find a major shopping area that does not have a big box home improvement store. In addition to that there are lumber yards and hardwares scattered all over the area. Let's just say that it shattered my world view to discover that the Detroit area is not the center of the universe, nor it does not represent the way that the world should be.

It's taken a while, but I think I've gotten my emotional equilibrium back. Still I need to know, where do you go to get the new GFCI when the old one goes in the kitchen.