Whaffor you carry the hose?

[kiya]

teinedreugan is away for two weeks because of crazed business practices. I will not be getting much time with him this summer, alas. He left yesterday, at a ridiculous hour of the morning, and is safely ensconced in a hotel in Utah. It's going to be awfully weird without him around. I'm not to the "Waugh, I miss you" state, and we've chatted a lot in email today, but ....

I am attempting to be more or less productive in his absence, though I have not made actual progress on things today so much as continued maintenance: started dishwasher, washing sheets and the towel he asked me to launder. I did find my seed corn and plant the second corn crop, though; the seed packets had opened up in the plastic bag they were stashed in, so the seed corn was mixed up with a few beans, peas, and some other random seeds. It is, however, large, and thus easy to extract, and the plots are now planted and watered. (That's whaffer.)

Yesterday, I assisted arawen with his woodworking, in one of those amusing displays of "My power exchange relationship is nowhere near as exciting as some people would really like it to be." He says I saved him about an hour and a half of work; Mongo good minion.

The box computer is b0rken. This frustrates me in unprintable ways.

Am considering moving the stacks of gaming books out of the living room and down to the basement, though there is nowhere near enough shelving to store them properly at the moment. But that would be progress on the ongoing establishment of order in the house. Pondering poking the Ikea catalogue to see if there is anything obvious for a couple of places that I want more shelving, rather than having to go to the effort of designing and building it.

Edited to add: Automated lolcat generator for LJ. Swap in your own name for your own posts; I got a few I rather liked.

Comments

[brooksmoses]

In my experience, getting shelving from Ikea doesn't just save the effort of designing and building it, but it's also less expensive than the raw lumber to make equally-sturdy shelves would be, at least around here.

[tiassa]

Eh? Utah?

[kiya]

The company is closing down the site here. Thus he's spending six weeks of the next two months in SLC training his replacement.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

the seed corn was mixed up with a few beans, peas, and some other random seeds.

They're just tryin' to be the Three Sisters!

[kiya]

That's how they're planted, yes. ;)

Well, not quite a proper three sisters planting -- I'm currently doing square foot-style planting, so they're semi-segregated. But the two corn plantings are the back row of the planting box, and then butternut squash, beans, butternut squash, peas, next to them.

I need to find the camera so I can take a photo or two and maybe get a gardening icon. Snakie will do for now, as he is my domesticity icon.

[tiassa]

Oh. I'm sorry. :P

At least it's Salt Lake. That's the least Utah part of Utah.

[artan]

Of course the main benefit of making them yourself is being more efficient about space. It's not as much of a problem for gaming books, but things like paperbacks or even standard hardcovers are smaller, and stock Ikea-type shelves tend to be at least 10" deep and not come with enough actual shelves for such things. For those though pine, mitre saw and pneumatic nailer can actually pull something together fairly quickly. I wouldn't trust it for gaming books though, as they're significantly heavier. Though I guess something could be done with support groves, but that gets back to size/configuration/cost benefits for pre-formed ones.

[brooksmoses]

Yup. That sounds almost exactly like the shelving that the local large used-book store has for their walls of paperbacks.

The shelves we got from Walmart are actually pretty decent for paperback storage -- so long as you get an extra unit for every two or three you plan to use, to supply extra adjustable shelves. The shelves can be adjusted to the appropriate height, and then they're the right depth to triple-stack.

On the other hand, if one wants to read the paperbacks, as well as store them, triple-stacking isn't all that useful....

They do, incidentally, work for storing records on, which make gaming books look lightweight. At least, they work if one doesn't mind that the shelves are bent into somewhat alarming arches. It helps to flip the shelves every year or so, which I guess would be kind of hard with nailed-in ones.

(I need to build more real shelves that aren't made out of chipboard.)