Small jobs that I don’t have the correct tools for are the worst, because I know I could do the damn job in 5 minutes with the right doohickey. However when I turn up at the hardware store asking for a doohickey they just laugh at me.

I’m two weeks behind on building a bathroom wall because I needed to borrow a multitool to cut away floor from around a wall and joist. I had to borrow it because I am tired of spending money on tools that get used once.

I’m now not sure it was the right tool and I think a sharp chisel and some patience would have gotten the job done. I decided to make my life difficult by not just cutting out a square around the rotten floor. Instead I decided to make myself suffer through an unforgiving game of wood Tetris.

If I wasn’t seeking personal growth I would be out there tomorrow cutting out a whole new square section, but I am trying to just get the job done. I am reminding myself that this entire patch will be underneath a wall and it is more than strong enough to support that. I am also pretty sure most people would not have bothered removing the section in the first place as it wasn’t that bad and structurally it wasn’t going to do anything.

Another upside of doing such an ugly patch is that I now have to build a wall over it as soon as possible so I can’t see it anymore.