garage door so the garage door saga continues. it rained saturday. the boys' baseball games were rained out. obviously the perfect time to tear up the garage. all i had to do this week was move the opener. it was below the loft before. now it's above. only one trip to home depot to get metal brackets to secure it to the ceiling. course it couldn't go smoothly. nothing like this ever does. the cord is too short to go around the loft to the outlet it used to use. so i had to drill a hole through the loft. np. just messy. second problem. the stupid thing vibrates like crazy. so it literally shakes a hot light bulb filament to pieces. there exist inserts that you can screw into a light bulb socket to convert it to a more normal wall outlet. we used one of those for a while to power a lamp clamped to the loft. but the insert thingy didn't connect well. and cackles like crazy. it seemed unsafe and was unreliable. so we stopped using it. though being in the dark garage was a bit disconcerting. so while i was messing with things i removed the light bulb socket from the opener and replaced it with an outlet we had in the box of good stuff(tm). course that couldn't just be easy either. the wires in the opener were multi mini strands. and were too small for the outlet. it wanted heavier gauge solid copper wire. wee. fortunately, we had some of that in the box of good stuff(tm). and now we have a light in the garage again. yay. now all we need is a door.  ¶ 8:00 AM