The Three Cobblers of Serendip Get Motivated

[unixronin]

Well, OK ... there's only one cobbler.  And I'm not in Serendip.

So what, do you ask, does Serendip have to do with this?  Well, there's a story titled "The Three Princes of Serendip" which turns out to be the origin of the English word serendipity, basically meaning a discovery of something you didn't intend or weren't looking for.

You see, a friend in Florida, Dave McGuire, just sent me a Sun 15" monitor.  And it came packed in a huge box well packed with bubble-wrap and assorted chunks of different kinds of foam.  (How the hell he got FedEx to haul a box that big and heavy from Florida to North Carolina for $10 is a mystery to me.)  Anyway, among this assortment were a couple of sheets of black rigid foam, one 1" and two 1/2" sheets, which turned out to be absolutely perfect for (respectively) making a wedge block to fill the gap under my heel in the post-surgical boot, and making an extra insert to put in my right shoe to pack it up to the same height as the boot-plus-wedge.

The upshot of all this is, I can now walk with the post-surgical boot, too, with the aid of my cane.  So we don't need to haul my crutches around any more -- in fact, I'm about to go put them in the back room for storage again right this minute.

Walking is good.

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[darthgeek.livejournal.com]

Corporate account? Maybe he ships enough stuff via FedEx he qualifies for a volume discount