Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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Gah…gah…Garage
So, there is no ‘before’ photo, because the state of the garage/workshop was too awful to post a before photo. However, today was a day of cleaning and tidying, also some painting of the stairs, but mainly cleaning and tidying. So I painted the stairs, that’s a given. Because that’s what I do nearly every…
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Yet more painting…
Gradual progress continues – I’ve been masking off and painting more of the stairs. Today I’ve started on the upstairs banister and the other side of the stairs’ trim; which continues the theme of attempting to drive me completely insane with a dip that I’ve carefully painted red and now have to even more carefully…
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When I get into it…
…I can be pretty effective. The stairs have had a second coat of paint (I was contemplating a third, but by the time I’d finished with the other projects of the day, it was really too late). Kathryn’s present continues to progress. I’m hoping that it’ll look quite good when it’s done – I spent…
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Hey rod, meet back, commence beating.
So when we decided on painting the trim… we decided to have a feature colour. Red, it is. ‘Kimono Red’. Or simply ‘Kimono’ I think. And I wandered round slathering random bits of the trim in red and we decided that this bit, or that bit, that would be red and the rest of it…
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Suck it up
So, I like Plex. I like it a lot; it does a lot of things very well. Unfortunately, one of the things it doesn’t do is allow you to limit data usage on audio tracks. This is ‘unfortunate’ – and somewhat of an oddity, at least as far as I’m concerned. This is a problem…
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Batteries are for the weak
So, it’s no secret that I adore my little Moskva watch. 1950’s tech that keeps accurate enough time for me, and doesn’t use any batteries; which given the infrequency of my use of it, it’s nice to not be using batteries because my old watches I’d pull them out and they’d invariably be dead. I’d…
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Definitely greendrobe, I think
Much progress today, thanks largely to the arrival of the new and vastly superior Makita LiIon Drill/Screwdriver. It’s so vastly superior to the ‘Challenge’ piece of cack that I’ve been using that it’s quite, quite astonishing. Although, that said, the Challenge one does seem to have higher torque available in ‘screw’ mode than the Makita.…
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Perhaps Greendrobe
Building continues apace, or if not apace, then reasonably rapidly. Today I stopped off at B&Q and grabbed some concrete and gravel; then quickly made a base for the Greenshed (or perhaps Greendrobe). On the way back I also grabbed some more pallets. Unfortunately my favoured supplier of pallets has just had theirs collected to…
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Insert frustrated wail
So, I registered to submit things to (attempt to) obtain my nursing registration in Washington State. Having gone through roughly the same process for BC I figured I kinda knew what I was going to need. So I was all set to fill in tedious paperwork and submit many cheques to all my unis saying…
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And lo, a wall.
So I’ve made the first fixed glazed section. Both the end walls of the greenshed will have a fixed (non-opening) window. Today after much pondering of the how, the where and the why I put together the first of these. Unfortunately, being a bit of a twit I forgot I’d already made the back panel…