Take THAT, piece of junk lighter plug

I now have the Radio Shack 12V 7.5A DC Power Plug 270-1509. It cannot be taken apart either, but at least I can see (and MAYBE reach) where the connection gets made, which is a big win. (This plug also has a lot of crap I didn't need, like a power LED and a fuse. Oh well. I takes what I can gets.)

Now I have to get my wire out of the little connectors that came with the bad plug. It will be easier to pull off the connectors (soldered as they are) than cut the wire, because I've been doing the wire stripping with scissors, and I'm not very good at that. And here I thought this project wouldn't require any desoldering braid. Ha for my hubris, ha!

[Edit: One of the great things about working at a hardware company is that sometimes the lab guy will let you borrow wire strippers. Heh heh heh. Thing works like a charm. Project complete.]

One of these days I will learn that the quickest, easiest, least expensive, most effective, best at decluttering, simplest lifestyle, thing to do with an Ancient Unfinished Project is to throw it away.

House In Order, day 15

1. Finished car voltmeter - one Ancient Unfinished Project off the list! This declutters my office AND the list of things I nag myself about.

2. Some progress toward getting rid of my old spam-choked e-mail address. Moved one mailing list, requested a change on one web site, and some time in the past couple days I schlepped the mail forwarder over to my work temporarily to see who hasn't got the change yet. (Still to do: at least two web sites, four mailing lists, my family.)

3. Drank a small bottle of sake. This counts as decluttering.

• I am not a sake drinker.
• It was a heartfelt gift and was "lucky", blessed in some way, which was why the giver insisted we have it.
• Its little porcelain jar was cracked and verrrry slowly leaking, to the point that it had glued itself to the kitchen counter.

Done! One more piece of "visual nagging" out of the way. (ambar, I love the phrase "visual nagging".)

4. Dragged out some very Ancient Unfinished Projects of the sewing variety. I'd been hoping to pitch a bunch of these tonight, but what I managed to do was get them out of hiding and put them together in one pile. I didn't have the heart to pitch them. Maybe if I hadn't had the sake first.