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Jul. 20th, 2007 07:28 pmGalina set off for Houston this morning, with a car made heavy by stuff she cajoled Drew into loading. At about 3:15 pm, she was somewhere short of Tucumcari, New Mexico. I figured she was just shy of 300 miles of the way here (~1100 miles), which means that - unless she tries to tough out an all-night drive (which makes me shudder) - she ought to overnight somewhere and then get here tomorrow, somewhere during the second half of the day.
Natalie took me to the IKEA store that's up near Katy off of I-10, because it had become pretty obvious that I needed to replace the shelf space lost when the Big Heavy Brown Furniture Item™ got taken out of the room. While we were there, we also picked up some storage containers and a pair of halogen lamps that now adorn the ceiling over the eating table next to the kitchen (they're not necessarily pretty, but they are useful).
Oh, and we did pick up four shelves that mount, cantilever style, onto the wall. I was able to install two of them on the wall over my desk yesterday, because I was able to find suitable studs in the wall (this, without a finder... go, me!), but I was leery of mounting the other pair on the adjacent wall because it would appear that the wall was constructed with no studs over a span of several feet (as evidenced by a line of nail holes I left, spaced at 3/4" intervals horizontally).
However, it turns out that, somehow, there was a stud hidden behind the wallboard, which I detected while pounding in the first of ten wallboard mounting fixtures that creates a fairly secure (if not terribly strong) attachment point. I had decided to use the full complement of 10 such fixtures to mount the shelves, and then to use said shelves in their "light duty" mode (5 kg max load), but upon finding the stud, the ratio suddenly changed to 8 fixtures and 2 screws, which certainly isn't enough to allow me to populate the entire shelf with large books, but ought to be capable of supporting a few paperbacks, knick-knacks, and DVDs.
Later, I went back and redid the two shelves over my desk, making sure that every available hole in the mounting bracket had either a screw or a fixture going through it, and the result is visibly better (placing books on these shelves doesn't cause them to droop at all).
(Wow, just listen to me... I install four shelves and all of a sudden, I'm Bob Vila.)
I finally sat down and started the translation due Monday. It's a fairly straightforward job, just big. If I'm to do a third of the job today, tomorrow, and Sunday, that'll be about 3450 words per day. (I'm slightly ahead of the curve as I write this.)
I learned earlier today that, had I trimmed the job down earlier in the week - which I'm not sure I could have done, all things considered - I would have been able to undertake another job today, equally as large, for delivery on Monday. Ah, well... there's certainly no need to get greedy.
Cheers...
Natalie took me to the IKEA store that's up near Katy off of I-10, because it had become pretty obvious that I needed to replace the shelf space lost when the Big Heavy Brown Furniture Item™ got taken out of the room. While we were there, we also picked up some storage containers and a pair of halogen lamps that now adorn the ceiling over the eating table next to the kitchen (they're not necessarily pretty, but they are useful).
Oh, and we did pick up four shelves that mount, cantilever style, onto the wall. I was able to install two of them on the wall over my desk yesterday, because I was able to find suitable studs in the wall (this, without a finder... go, me!), but I was leery of mounting the other pair on the adjacent wall because it would appear that the wall was constructed with no studs over a span of several feet (as evidenced by a line of nail holes I left, spaced at 3/4" intervals horizontally).
However, it turns out that, somehow, there was a stud hidden behind the wallboard, which I detected while pounding in the first of ten wallboard mounting fixtures that creates a fairly secure (if not terribly strong) attachment point. I had decided to use the full complement of 10 such fixtures to mount the shelves, and then to use said shelves in their "light duty" mode (5 kg max load), but upon finding the stud, the ratio suddenly changed to 8 fixtures and 2 screws, which certainly isn't enough to allow me to populate the entire shelf with large books, but ought to be capable of supporting a few paperbacks, knick-knacks, and DVDs.
Later, I went back and redid the two shelves over my desk, making sure that every available hole in the mounting bracket had either a screw or a fixture going through it, and the result is visibly better (placing books on these shelves doesn't cause them to droop at all).
(Wow, just listen to me... I install four shelves and all of a sudden, I'm Bob Vila.)
I finally sat down and started the translation due Monday. It's a fairly straightforward job, just big. If I'm to do a third of the job today, tomorrow, and Sunday, that'll be about 3450 words per day. (I'm slightly ahead of the curve as I write this.)
I learned earlier today that, had I trimmed the job down earlier in the week - which I'm not sure I could have done, all things considered - I would have been able to undertake another job today, equally as large, for delivery on Monday. Ah, well... there's certainly no need to get greedy.
Cheers...
