I was thinking about bras today on the job.

We were setting the base cabinets in a kitchen. It seems like it would be be easier than it was. You might think that you could just go in and put all the base cabinets on the floor where the customer wants them. In a perfect world, that would be true. But just like no body is perfect, no house is perfect either.

Houses, like bodies are sometimes just built a bit lopsided. You know that one of your... feet is bigger than the other, as are other slightly asymmetrical parts of your body. And some parts of your body, as with houses, sag with age.

Well this kitchen had two strikes in that department. Not only is it a settling aging house, but also both the walls and the floor were not perfectly straight. The problem is that the cabinets we were installing were straight. So Stan took measurements and evaluated the bubbles on the level while Don "ripped" the 2x4s at the right angles to raise the cabinets to the same level height as marked by the cool red laser line. I was over in shim city handing over shims, screws, hammers, or any other thing I could think of to do in the surgery nurse position.

It occurred to me that we were making a Wonder Bra of sorts for the house, compensating for natural lopsidedness and the sagging of age.

Don also showed me how to do a great Madonna impersonation with the corner styrofoam pads sent in the packing material with the cabinets.

So it was bra day. We all need a little help smoothing out our lopsidedness sometimes.