{"id":3159,"date":"2015-07-31T05:30:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2015-07-31T22:42:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T08:42:31","slug":"rules-of-the-universe-and-sawdust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=3159","title":{"rendered":"Rules of the Universe and sawdust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s two things that strikes fear in the heart of the wife.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Look what I bought&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to saw some wood&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first she has sort of learned to live with.<\/p>\n<p>The second gets her all riled up.<br \/>\nThe lady doesn&#8217;t like sawdust.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s strange because she doesn&#8217;t mind regular dust.<\/p>\n<p>One cannot saw wood without making sawdust.<\/p>\n<p>They go together.<br \/>\nSawdust is man-glitter and it makes the garage smell manly-good.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of those laws of the Universe that keeps us scientists busy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Saw-Dust-Pile.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3158\" src=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Saw-Dust-Pile-250x188.png\" alt=\"Saw Dust Pile\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Saw-Dust-Pile-250x188.png 250w, http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Saw-Dust-Pile.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Men make sawdust.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s in our DNA.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, her complaint is I don&#8217;t clean it up.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not true of course.<br \/>\nOne can not clean up all the sawdust.<\/p>\n<p>Another law of the Universe is you can never make the sawdust go away.<\/p>\n<p>When sawdust was invented, they designed it so it would disappear into nooks and crannies until you left the area.<\/p>\n<p>Then it would multiply.<\/p>\n<p>Something like rabbits.<\/p>\n<p>In Japan they ferment sawdust and then lie in it waiting for something to happen.<br \/>\nI have no idea what.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe make more sawdust.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fermented-saw-dust-sized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3157\" src=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fermented-saw-dust-sized.jpg\" alt=\"Fermented-saw-dust-sized\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fermented-saw-dust-sized.jpg 500w, http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fermented-saw-dust-sized-250x167.jpg 250w, http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fermented-saw-dust-sized-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s one for the ladies.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ramen-Bath.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3156\" src=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ramen-Bath.png\" alt=\"Ramen Bath\" width=\"600\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ramen-Bath.png 600w, http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ramen-Bath-250x126.png 250w, http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ramen-Bath-500x253.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>I think this is ramen, not sawdust.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s okay.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure the ladies don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, when the wife goes into the garage later there&#8217;s a little bit of sawdust.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not my fault.<br \/>\nShe doesn&#8217;t understand.<\/p>\n<p>It may be a plot to stop me from buying more tools that make noise and threaten to cut my fingers off.<\/p>\n<p>Later she asks me to make a planter stand for the back yard.<\/p>\n<p>That would involve making sawdust.<\/p>\n<p>It goes around in circles and I get 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