And Maybe They Can Teach Jackson to Patch the Hole in My Ceiling

Drop me in an Apple Store, and I'm in heaven, and not just because the place is so damn white. I know how to test drive the hardware, and even the stuff I don't know much about, I know the right questions to ask.

But when I have to go to Home Depot to buy a paintbrush and some primer so I can finally apply a coat of color to the door moldings that have been the stale wood color since they were installed several years ago, and I'm like some clueless foreigner played by Roberto Benigni in a wacky fish-out-of-water comedy.

That being said, I'm probably going to take the advice of the San Francisco Chronicle's "The Poop" blogger and bring Jackson to one of HD's kids workshops.

I'll probably skip this Saturday's, during which the kids will make a trivet. A trivet, I learned from "The Poop," is "a piece of wood and tile that keeps hot pans from touching the kitchen table."

I'll probably go in December, when the project is a primitive but cool-because-he'll-build-it-himself wagon.

Now if they can only teach him how to put in replacement windows...
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