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roadrunnertwiceWhat's even been going on!! Well, the guys we hired to refinish the downstairs floors did their thing while we crashed at Ruth's parents' place, and it turned out gorgeous. So then we got to move back in, basically.
I've got the stereo/TV industrial complex set back up, which goes a long way toward feeling like I'm not in a campsite. I didn't have it set up before because we were going to have to move out of the downstairs again anyway, plus some of the cables weren't long enough. Anyway, I got those cables, and while I was at it I upgraded from Dad's old speakers (salvaged from a now-dead Sharp all-in-one unit from sometime in the '80s, when "all" meant turntable/radio/cassette) to some really nice bookshelf speakers the Wirecutter recommended (THEY SOUND GREAT).
I basically spent a whole evening wrapped in wires, but 1: fun, and 2: worth it. I think Ruth thought the whole procedure was kind of ridiculous and didn't really want to hear about it, but that's okay, everyone needs a Thing that no one else wants to hear about. I just like having a nice-sounding stereo is all, and the limited amount of money I'm willing to sink into it means it's going to be a bit of a hodgepodge, and also I like hodgepodges.
Back to the construction work: we had some shenanigans with finding tools. Our neighbor needed his miter saw and compressor back, so we borrowed some from a friend's dad, and that saw turned out to be totally insufficient for what we needed. (It was a really short single-bevel job, so, basically impossible for cutting baseboards in a cramped bathroom. You could maybe do it badly if you had unlimited room on either side, though.) So we were at a standstill for a while, and then we were on vacation in Newport for four days. But anyway, our friends Robert and Raye loaned us exactly the kind of monster saw we needed, so we are Back! In! Business!
I've been posting on Mastodon a bunch. I'm @nfagerlund on the mastodon.social instance if anyone else here's riding the ol' pachyderm! I feel like I've mostly been using it for shitposting/night-tweets. Anyway, this fragments my mode of Kickin' It In Cyberspace even further than it was already fragmented, and I guess we'll see how that works out. But Twitter the company has been pissing me off so much that I've started to get real nervous about how reliant I've been on Twitter the space-for-hanging-out-with-my-buds, so it was time to shake things up a bit.
I've got the stereo/TV industrial complex set back up, which goes a long way toward feeling like I'm not in a campsite. I didn't have it set up before because we were going to have to move out of the downstairs again anyway, plus some of the cables weren't long enough. Anyway, I got those cables, and while I was at it I upgraded from Dad's old speakers (salvaged from a now-dead Sharp all-in-one unit from sometime in the '80s, when "all" meant turntable/radio/cassette) to some really nice bookshelf speakers the Wirecutter recommended (THEY SOUND GREAT).
I basically spent a whole evening wrapped in wires, but 1: fun, and 2: worth it. I think Ruth thought the whole procedure was kind of ridiculous and didn't really want to hear about it, but that's okay, everyone needs a Thing that no one else wants to hear about. I just like having a nice-sounding stereo is all, and the limited amount of money I'm willing to sink into it means it's going to be a bit of a hodgepodge, and also I like hodgepodges.
Back to the construction work: we had some shenanigans with finding tools. Our neighbor needed his miter saw and compressor back, so we borrowed some from a friend's dad, and that saw turned out to be totally insufficient for what we needed. (It was a really short single-bevel job, so, basically impossible for cutting baseboards in a cramped bathroom. You could maybe do it badly if you had unlimited room on either side, though.) So we were at a standstill for a while, and then we were on vacation in Newport for four days. But anyway, our friends Robert and Raye loaned us exactly the kind of monster saw we needed, so we are Back! In! Business!
I've been posting on Mastodon a bunch. I'm @nfagerlund on the mastodon.social instance if anyone else here's riding the ol' pachyderm! I feel like I've mostly been using it for shitposting/night-tweets. Anyway, this fragments my mode of Kickin' It In Cyberspace even further than it was already fragmented, and I guess we'll see how that works out. But Twitter the company has been pissing me off so much that I've started to get real nervous about how reliant I've been on Twitter the space-for-hanging-out-with-my-buds, so it was time to shake things up a bit.