Bill makes the world work better

Bill Butts. Funny name, funny guy, amused by life and college boys who couldn't install a set of inside-mount roman shades if their degree hung in the balance. That's why there's Bill: to make the world work better. With the words, "He's just a handyman," a client once questioned Bill's suitability for a task. Yeah, like Lance Armstrong is a guy who rides bikes.

Bill understands the physical world of created living spaces. If you need to convert an antique small dining table into a big one, he'll do the carpentry wizardry and  pull off the refinishing so the one who made the table a hundred years ago would swear, were he available, that he made it a lot larger (and somehow more elegant) than he intended. That kind of thing, most especially magic with wood, its joinery and surfaces.

But not just wood, problems. In my SoHo project, no one could get the drapes to slide smoothly. Bill looked, went shopping and got an unusual silicon that made the drapery rings flow like kids in a water park chute. That toilet flap, this electrical line that keeps tripping a breaker, that water feature pump that wont...

Bill solves. There's a Hebrew expression Tikkun Olam (TO), which means repairing the world. Nah, not quite that. Bill'd snort and light a Marlboro...outside, he's respectful. Not quite TO  but tending in that direction. Bill just knows how things work, and there are so many times when he's more what you need than Lance Armstrong, a rocket scientist or a husband who incorporates phrases like Tikkun Olam in your blog posting.