Productive Procrastination!

[skellington1]

Doing better today.

I emailed Des and my uncle W about my lighting dilemmas, so I can get advice from actual professional people (a theatre lighting person and an architect, respectively). YAY for knowing nice, interesting people!

As a byproduct of that, I now have an annotated floor plan, so if anyone is curious I can post that somewhere.

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[skellington1]

I'm just going to stew in vaulted ceiling jealousy for a bit. :P I have boring 8' ones, and even six inches does so much to make a room feel bigger. With the way the roof is constructed it'd be a major undertaking to change anything.

I'm definitely thinking you could do a section of cat highway as a weekend project. Get your measurements right, get them to cut a standard board to length at the hardware store -- you'd have to pick either 7.5 wide or 5.5 wide, because you can't buy an actually-six-inch board, and I don't think they'll rip 'em lengthwise -- and go to town with a stud finder to place the brackets. Since cats don't care if it's perfectly level, you could place it by measuring *down* from the ceiling -- that way it looks level to you, regardless of what your house is actually doing.

My cats go MAD for the catnip. Definitely not like stoners -- they get high and want to disembowel things. I say Calliope is worse because Monkey has never tried to steal the jar from me. Calliope is convinced that she can bypass her dealer and get it from the source. She'll slip one paw in the jar, one paw around it, sit back on her haunches, and YOINK.

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I'm just going to stew in vaulted ceiling jealousy for a bit. :P I have boring 8' ones, and even six inches does so much to make a room feel bigger.

Well, if it makes you feel better, the reason I have vaulted ceilings is because I live in a manufactured home and have no attic. :) I essentially have a few inches of shell that defines both the inside and outside of my house.

Which is why it gets so bloody cold in the winter. I would kill for the ability to insulate my house.

you'd have to pick either 7.5 wide or 5.5 wide, because you can't buy an actually-six-inch board

5.5 would probably be plenty wide enough. I'd just have to figure out where to put/start it. The logical place would be around the hutch and the cat tree there, because that would be the way to 'get high', but that wall is relatively short (maybe 6-7' wide, with 4' of that taken up by the top of the hutch and the cat tree next to it). So I'd either need to wrap it around into the hallway -or- carry it up the wall towards the front door.

Pictures. Definitely pictures are necessary. XD

they get high and want to disembowel things.

I've heard of cats that do that, but damn. :)

I say Calliope is worse because Monkey has never tried to steal the jar from me. Calliope is convinced that she can bypass her dealer and get it from the source. She'll slip one paw in the jar, one paw around it, sit back on her haunches, and YOINK.

Hahaha. Does she try to then dump it all over the floor and roll around in it? One of my friends' cats did that with a big clamshell they had of catnip on top of an entertainment center.

And whyyyyyyy was I not using this icon? Which was me catching Toast in the act of having found a dime bag of dried 'nip up on my bathroom vanity in the old place, jumping up where he wasn't supposed to be, tearing it open, and definitely inhaling.

Then there is this:

[skellington1]

Which is why it gets so bloody cold in the winter.

All of my jealousy just immediately dissipated. I prioritize insulation over almost everything. Code requires me to upgrade the insulation in my attic as part of the studio project, and I'm thrilled! Of course, first I have to fix the vent baffles (ugh) and rake out the existing insulation, because Calliope keeps getting into the attic and digging herself little cat-width trenches. It's like the Western Front up there, only white and itchy. My entrenching cat has lowered my R value by at least 8. *headdesk* The energy audit guy laughed aloud when he saw it -- says he's never seen an attic that looked like mine.

It all comes back to cats eventually.

Pictures. Definitely pictures are necessary. XD

Yes! My mental picture isn't clear enough.

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hehehe, stoner cat. The expression in that icon is *priceless*.

I don't know what Calliope would do with the nip jar, because I never let her take it. She wasn't finding it herself and stealing it, she was trying to steal it directly from me. We have little tug-o-wars.