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Once is enough …

~ curses about un-DOing-it-yourself of a moderately handy man

Mark Kolke
Feb 22, 2026
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Putting things together is hard …

Taking them apart and expecting all the parts, time, energy, and patience to still be there is harder.

Harder yet, if you don’t know how they were put together.

We talk as if everything can be rebuilt, reused, repurposed, restarted, or “fixed later.”

Maybe some things can.

Like a fresh uncooked egg dropped on a kitchen flo…

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