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Long weekend meanderings
Feb. 16th, 2009 10:59 pmI've been rather quiet on the ol' LJ lately, it mostly mirrors how I've been feeling lately.
On Sunday I went to the memorial service for my best friend's mother. I dont know why I am so apprehensive of these things. Yeah, all the churchy stuff and sadness, but in most cases they are all about resolution, comfort and, well, love. It also became a mini-reunion of our high school group of friends, some I havent seen in 29 (!!! It's been that long?!) years, other for more than ten. Funny thing is, they are exactly as I would have imagined them to look with the added years. We talked about our current situations, reminisced of the past, complained about getting old, and renewed our connections. I took a cell-phone shot of most of us, but I misplaced the confounded adapter for the MicroSD card and I am not reconnecting the monster PC with the native reader tonight. I'll post the shot of me and my inseparable cohorts soon enough.
As is typical when I need to keep my mind off of depressing thoughts, I tinker. The weather threw me a curve these past few days with promises of rain and nastiness which did not really materialize. I knew that as soon as I set up the sawbucks and the big miter saw setup outside to do more trim work on the garage, I'd have a downpour to contend with. So instead I have been doing myriad little projects and such that have been on back burners for years. Some minor rewiring of circuits in the basement woodshop/workshop, as well as changing lighting circuits that slowly became overloaded as I added lights. Since I have four more quad fixtures to install and wore and the original circuit shares the lighting with the kitchen and bathrooms, I am installing a separate branch just for the shop lights. I replaced the emergency lighting fixture tonight as well, replaced the temporary lighting setup in a storage area with a pair of two bulb fluorescents and got rid of all the janky extension cords and such. Rewired some of the shop machinery as well, the machine lights I added to the band saw and big drill press got wired into the machine wiring itself instead of having their own separate cords, cutting down on clutter and the need for so many outlets. When the weather is more conducive to such things, I will make several more hauls to the landfill/recycling center to get rid of lots of cruft clogging the basement.
I have an area next to the Lab Of Mayhem currently used for storage. I want to finish it off and make it into an office. I'm tired of having paperwork strewn on the dining room table and want to finally have a dedicated office setup. That will go a long way in making the upstairs more livable and easier to keep neat. It has the advantage of being separated from the house by ten inches of solid concrete, making it ideal for storage of important paperwork and such in case the unthinkable should happen. When completed I will fit the room with a fire-rated steel door and a decent lock as well.
I need this short week coming up. So much in my head that I've been tending to. A nice helping of reality should do the trick, but not all at once.
On Sunday I went to the memorial service for my best friend's mother. I dont know why I am so apprehensive of these things. Yeah, all the churchy stuff and sadness, but in most cases they are all about resolution, comfort and, well, love. It also became a mini-reunion of our high school group of friends, some I havent seen in 29 (!!! It's been that long?!) years, other for more than ten. Funny thing is, they are exactly as I would have imagined them to look with the added years. We talked about our current situations, reminisced of the past, complained about getting old, and renewed our connections. I took a cell-phone shot of most of us, but I misplaced the confounded adapter for the MicroSD card and I am not reconnecting the monster PC with the native reader tonight. I'll post the shot of me and my inseparable cohorts soon enough.
As is typical when I need to keep my mind off of depressing thoughts, I tinker. The weather threw me a curve these past few days with promises of rain and nastiness which did not really materialize. I knew that as soon as I set up the sawbucks and the big miter saw setup outside to do more trim work on the garage, I'd have a downpour to contend with. So instead I have been doing myriad little projects and such that have been on back burners for years. Some minor rewiring of circuits in the basement woodshop/workshop, as well as changing lighting circuits that slowly became overloaded as I added lights. Since I have four more quad fixtures to install and wore and the original circuit shares the lighting with the kitchen and bathrooms, I am installing a separate branch just for the shop lights. I replaced the emergency lighting fixture tonight as well, replaced the temporary lighting setup in a storage area with a pair of two bulb fluorescents and got rid of all the janky extension cords and such. Rewired some of the shop machinery as well, the machine lights I added to the band saw and big drill press got wired into the machine wiring itself instead of having their own separate cords, cutting down on clutter and the need for so many outlets. When the weather is more conducive to such things, I will make several more hauls to the landfill/recycling center to get rid of lots of cruft clogging the basement.
I have an area next to the Lab Of Mayhem currently used for storage. I want to finish it off and make it into an office. I'm tired of having paperwork strewn on the dining room table and want to finally have a dedicated office setup. That will go a long way in making the upstairs more livable and easier to keep neat. It has the advantage of being separated from the house by ten inches of solid concrete, making it ideal for storage of important paperwork and such in case the unthinkable should happen. When completed I will fit the room with a fire-rated steel door and a decent lock as well.
I need this short week coming up. So much in my head that I've been tending to. A nice helping of reality should do the trick, but not all at once.
