Sometimes I find myself in a state of incompleteness. There’s so much to be done and not enough energy left. When life includes many important things, it seems impossible to do them all. Sometimes days feel like Hal changing a lightbulb. 

Today I sat down and played with something that had been bothering me for a few weeks. We bought a new bookshelf for my office, and the middle shelf keeps falling down. I thought I’d lost a screw, and finally sat down today to investigate with my iPhone’s flashlight as a camera. 

After some testing I realized the slot for the screw is somehow designed wrong and the screw can’t go in. The problem was much easier to solve once I thought about it for a minute. Instead of forcing the screw to fit I just moved the entire shelf down a notch. There are, after all, several other heights for the shelf. 

Problem solved, and now I can move onto the next thing.