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Jan. 9th, 2018
Getting started
Jan. 9th, 2018 02:35 pmI have so much writing to do it is proving difficult to start. So instead of one of the big pieces I thought I'd just do a little diary entry.
Today has been uncommonly productive so far; I went to Mitre 10 intending just to by a few adhesive products and a new smoke alarm and walked out with also what I needed to get around to replacing those fittings in the shower which were variously broken or leaking.
Completed so far today
- aforementioned shopping trip
- replacing the smoke alarm (water damaged since the leak in the ceiling a while back and only capable of making a squeak) /then/ discovering I already had a spare waiting in the drawer (there are now two)
- Replacing the shower hose and the corner shelves/trays in the shower, including filling the holes in the walls where the old ones were screwed on. (The new ones are suction-fitted).
- Discovering that the real reason the kitset dining chairs have been falling apart when people sit in them is that whoever assembled them (decades ago) used a mix of screw lengths to attach the seats and some of them weren't long enough at all. This also explains some of the stray screws I have discovered lying around the house at various times. Replaced screws but also applied wood glue to loose joints.
- Cleaned up a plastic plastic-bag holder which has been sitting around in the cupboard since the earthquake repairs to the kitchen were done (possibly longer) and attached it to the inside of the door of the dining room cupboard.
- Remembered to empty my camera card
- two loads of laundry
In progress
- Backing up and archiving a bunch of photos (copy in progress on the other computer)
Still to do
- move the most broken of the oak dining chairs into a cupboard for storage until I can get the set repaired (not expecting that to be cheap, so it's on the list of house projects) and rearrange the other chairs in the house to compensate.
- write, write, write
~~~
Yesterday was supposed to be an easy day, my first day entirely to myself since before Xmas. It was not to be. Work called, there was an influx of Hall enquiries, people sought out my advice, and the sheer number of things demanding my attention began to overwhelm me to the point I was simply shutting down instead of being able to settle on a task to do.
In the end (and after calming words from D.) I was able to focus enough to put up a photo gallery, distribute personal galleries from the New Years party and and do my end-of-year archive and local backup of the KAOS photos. In between computer crashes (some of the combination of apps I was using weren't playing nicely together) I also spent time FreeCiving on the Lubuntu laptop as a brain reset.
Today has been uncommonly productive so far; I went to Mitre 10 intending just to by a few adhesive products and a new smoke alarm and walked out with also what I needed to get around to replacing those fittings in the shower which were variously broken or leaking.
Completed so far today
- aforementioned shopping trip
- replacing the smoke alarm (water damaged since the leak in the ceiling a while back and only capable of making a squeak) /then/ discovering I already had a spare waiting in the drawer (there are now two)
- Replacing the shower hose and the corner shelves/trays in the shower, including filling the holes in the walls where the old ones were screwed on. (The new ones are suction-fitted).
- Discovering that the real reason the kitset dining chairs have been falling apart when people sit in them is that whoever assembled them (decades ago) used a mix of screw lengths to attach the seats and some of them weren't long enough at all. This also explains some of the stray screws I have discovered lying around the house at various times. Replaced screws but also applied wood glue to loose joints.
- Cleaned up a plastic plastic-bag holder which has been sitting around in the cupboard since the earthquake repairs to the kitchen were done (possibly longer) and attached it to the inside of the door of the dining room cupboard.
- Remembered to empty my camera card
- two loads of laundry
In progress
- Backing up and archiving a bunch of photos (copy in progress on the other computer)
Still to do
- move the most broken of the oak dining chairs into a cupboard for storage until I can get the set repaired (not expecting that to be cheap, so it's on the list of house projects) and rearrange the other chairs in the house to compensate.
- write, write, write
~~~
Yesterday was supposed to be an easy day, my first day entirely to myself since before Xmas. It was not to be. Work called, there was an influx of Hall enquiries, people sought out my advice, and the sheer number of things demanding my attention began to overwhelm me to the point I was simply shutting down instead of being able to settle on a task to do.
In the end (and after calming words from D.) I was able to focus enough to put up a photo gallery, distribute personal galleries from the New Years party and and do my end-of-year archive and local backup of the KAOS photos. In between computer crashes (some of the combination of apps I was using weren't playing nicely together) I also spent time FreeCiving on the Lubuntu laptop as a brain reset.