Signs of affection

Jim Fortune expresses his love for his family through action. He builds us stuff and he fixes our bikes and our cars and he plans trips for us and he makes sure things get done and people get taken places and everything is operating optimally.

This is a phenomenon I think of as engineer love. Do not wait for engineers to tell you they love you and would do anything for you and feel lucky every day to be part of your life. Just watch them work and interpret as appropriate.

All that to say, Jim Fortune built this for me:

Yeah, I know. Wow. 

This gorgeous thing is the very first thing you see when you come through the front door of Jim Fortune's house. It is a monument to engineer love. It has file storage on the bottom so I do not have to schlep upstairs every time I want to file a receipt. It has drawers to store our old CDs so we do not have to part with them even though we really don't need them anymore:

It has dovetail joints and inset doors and self-closing drawer slides and it is made to look like a built-in but it can be removed so that if we ever leave it can go with us. Because, yeah, this is MINE.