Channeling a Beaver Spirit?
Tried intalling some extension jambs this morning into our office/library casement window. Perhaps because ours have been sitting around for Far Too Long, I couldn't (by myself) get the top one in. It's a bit bowed and I'm having trouble. Hopefully R and I together can finish it when he comes home ... but that would require not reassembling the office library from it's current interestingly disheveled state. And I want to finish cleaning it up. Hm.
I think I was inspired by Bruno the Carpenter -- MonkeyBoy and I read it at daycare the other day...
I did kinda go crazy in here. I put together an old oak table that (without the leaves) is 4' x 4' -- which is really darn large for a space only 8' (maybe) wide. Except it would just look wrong in the corner, and finally I have a surface deep enough to be a useful (and beautiful! Though old) desk. (Plus I have a sentimental attachment to it, mostly 'cause I like it better than any other desk or table in the house). Now if I can just figure out where to put the telescope, and swap the metal (skinny) table for the (silly prefab) computer desk, and put the table in the big basement (and more not-useful-right-now computer and telephony equipment on it in case we every really finish the hardwire networking), and get the old blond veneer bookshelves from the other basement (not so sentimental, despite having been were my grandmother's), then I could put these other papers and crates and boxes away, or sort of...
In other news, thank you turbocat for a serendipitous and delightful evening yesterday! I did wind up going to Best Buy, where I successfully resisted replacing my 2004 Dell Inspiron 1100 (reliable, slowing down, 20GB drive with perhaps 2 GB left open, a bunch of apps I don't know whether I could delete and more stuff that just is bigger than the comp was meant for) with money I don't have anyway. It was hard, though. Good thing they didn't have an opened/returned/floor model available. And REALLY good they didn't have such with Creative Suite any-version on it (I have CS1, and it just makes me wonder with the software I want to use costs more than the hardware to run it on).
I digress (from what?). Back to work!
I think I was inspired by Bruno the Carpenter -- MonkeyBoy and I read it at daycare the other day...
I did kinda go crazy in here. I put together an old oak table that (without the leaves) is 4' x 4' -- which is really darn large for a space only 8' (maybe) wide. Except it would just look wrong in the corner, and finally I have a surface deep enough to be a useful (and beautiful! Though old) desk. (Plus I have a sentimental attachment to it, mostly 'cause I like it better than any other desk or table in the house). Now if I can just figure out where to put the telescope, and swap the metal (skinny) table for the (silly prefab) computer desk, and put the table in the big basement (and more not-useful-right-now computer and telephony equipment on it in case we every really finish the hardwire networking), and get the old blond veneer bookshelves from the other basement (not so sentimental, despite having been were my grandmother's), then I could put these other papers and crates and boxes away, or sort of...
In other news, thank you turbocat for a serendipitous and delightful evening yesterday! I did wind up going to Best Buy, where I successfully resisted replacing my 2004 Dell Inspiron 1100 (reliable, slowing down, 20GB drive with perhaps 2 GB left open, a bunch of apps I don't know whether I could delete and more stuff that just is bigger than the comp was meant for) with money I don't have anyway. It was hard, though. Good thing they didn't have an opened/returned/floor model available. And REALLY good they didn't have such with Creative Suite any-version on it (I have CS1, and it just makes me wonder with the software I want to use costs more than the hardware to run it on).
I digress (from what?). Back to work!