New Blinds! Tomorrow a person will arrive at my house at 9am to install new 2" white faux wood blinds in every window! I ordered them last month from Home Depot, and I am very excited about the window re-do. The current blinds I have look like they are from 1986: beige, dirty and metal. In order to save myself about $115, I opted to remove the old blinds myself the night before the installation. I have to go to the dump anyway at some point so it seemed like a good way to save a day's pay. The experience of removing cheap blinds from said windows left something to be desired. The screws were cheap (go figure) so they got stripped within seconds. Every screw took about 8 minutes to remove, very, very slowly. What's more, when I was removing the brackets in the guest bedroom on the south side of the house, I discovered my 70 year-old next door neighbor, Howard, was watching porn in his office. I pulled the blinds all the way up and was given a clear view into his office. With his back facing me he was busily toggling through a huge quantity of porn stills and some videos. Meanwhile, I am standing on a ladder at my window no more than 20 feet away, trying to remove the brackets without making any sudden movements. By the skin of my chin he didn't notice me. That would have been pretty awkward. Did I mention this is a neighbor who I have NEVER seen without his shirt off?