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Yesterday’s post sucked, so here’s something light-hearted.

I’m stupid.

If you know me, you probably disagree.

“How can you get a physics degree if you’re stupid?”
“You’re such an intellectual.”
“How stupid can you be if you have a law degree?”

Very. The answer is, “very.” Seriously, have you people never met a lawyer?

But those that really know me would say, “Yeah, he’s stupid . . . in his own way.”

The issue here is one of colloquial semantics that most people reading this blog (i.e., gamers) understand. I’m smart but, in many ways, unwise. But don’t worry. This isn’t a philosophical post. Nope. I’m going to tell you a funny story of how stupid I am.

The 1990s

In 1994, I was working as a contractor at Bolling AFB. Things were different back then. Widespread ownership of a Discman or something like it was relatively new. I finally bought one, and when the headphones wore out, I bought a nice, new pair. The problem with the new pair is that the audio was always too soft for my liking. So, I replaced them, then when the replacements ran out, I just stuck with the “quiet” pair. About a year later, I was on a business trip in Miami, and I finally realized that the headphones had a dial for controlling volume independent of the device I was using.

Now, this isn’t so bad. That sort of dial was a new thing for headphones. Besides, I was in my mid-twenties. Every one is stu . . . errrr, unwise in their twenties, right?

Fast Forward to Today

I bought my house in January, 2022. That’s about 2-1/2 years ago, and by “about,” I mean almost exactly to the day. One thing about the house that’s been super annoying but not worth spending money to fix is that the light fixture in my master bedroom, despite lightbulb changes, has always produced far too little light.

You know where this is going, don’t you?

Last night, I accidentally discovered something.

That small slider to the right of the switch acts as a dimmer, and all it took was 30 months of using the fixture multiple times almost every day for me to discover it.

I’m stupid.

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