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...going to be cooking up a big batch of Massaman Curry tonight
I am particularly glad it isn't raining money especially coins. Hail causes a lot of damage already so I bet if it rains coins, the damage might be more than what the value of the coins. Oops a run on sentence!
the faces of wednesday
The weather is starting to be sub-90 F, so I'm getting ready to till the garden under for the winter and fold over the compost pile. Also looking forward to next year's house projects.
Currently it is
86 here today
...love that series. Even patterend a character for an RPG after her.
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I had dinner but still hungry.
Complaint: Storage space. Small apartment, lots of things to store.
Non-complaint: I think I've had a long overdue brain-leap. I've been wondering how to manage all my things that need to go into storage boxes but are accessed frequently enough that I don't want to put them into boxes piled on top of each other in a cramped low ceiling closet.
For years I've had in my livingroom/office a set of 12 cardboard "Bankers Box" storage drawers arranged 3 wide by 4 high. The set comes with metal clips that anchor neighboring boxes so the whole assembly is quite sturdy. Along the top I've placed a nice wood countertop upon which I've arranged my collection of shiny things. In the box drawers I've stored computer & electronic parts. Blank media, archived media, telephone parts & cables, RF parts & cables, WiFi equipment, software boxes, serial cables, network cables, etc. All neatly labeled with a label maker. It all works very well and doesn't look too bad. I won't get a feature article in "Architecture Today" but it doesn't look sloppy or cluttered.
But in my kitchen the empty storage boxes for my shiny things and more boxes of computer parts, photo albums, memorabila, rarely used (but vital) kitchen utensils, etc. are just regular no-name brand cheap storage boxes with lids, that are stacked on top of each other forming a wall that is getting increasingly difficult to manhandle each time I need to get something. And the boxes are getting shopworn and have magic-marker scrawled on the sides indicating the current contents. Very ugly. OK for closets but not when on display in the kitchen.
Today I was browsing through the Amazon catalog trying to think what to surprise myself with for my birthday and I found the Banker's Box storage drawers again. I can get another set of 12 (two sets of 6) and replace my lidded boxes with drawers and have easy access. Duh! Solution staring me right in the face for 10 years.
Complaint: Then I saw the price of two sets of 6 boxes.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000M8GF04/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
Non complaint Star Trek discovery third season is back on. Complaint too loud around here.
I got a headache but did just take something for it.
I ordered a box of cereal last night on Amazon thinking it was part of the Amazon promo thing but it turned out it was the regular price. I also thought it was cheaper. Wish everything was a dollar but that is only the case at dollar tree.
oops deleted something by accident. For some strange reason my stupid phone has the same layout as an iPhone I think.
...6 for 124$? ouch.
Yeah, the same issue here but even smaller. Cabinet space in the kitchen is very limited and the freezer in the fridge is rather small so can't really do a lot of stocking up for "Plague: Part Deux" and the approaching winter (though the dishwasher which I never have used does make a nice storage area for plates, bowls, cups and smaller cookware).
So darn hot!
then he let himself go for the love handles look
...hmmm, looks like I better bundle up for the market trip today.
Trying to get this shirt from Belk next week. They have pick up from store option which is better than shippin. My issue with shipping these days is that I don't know how many people have to touch my box.
I did a bath and body works order recently. They had a six for 24 deal for hand soap but I somehow ordered seven but still got the deal for the seventh. I mainly wanted the wallflower refills and the hand sanitizer. I got two soaps for mum and one for stepdad. Mum has a birthday in December so that is why I got two for her.
Good news is that I could get these items plus some clothes from Belk. Bad news is that my funds will be tight until the pandemic is over or another stimulus bill goes through.
Yeah, scary price for empty cardboard boxes.
My first 12 were found in a sale bin at a big store going out of business. I think they were in packs of 3 for $15 or $20. Not sure what the price really was, but it being well over a decade ago and me being really really broke at the time, it could not have been $250 for 12.
Conclusion: I need to find me an office supply store going out of business.
However, I have been impressed with their longevity. I use the drawers several times a month and some of them are laden with heavy stuff. None of the drawers or shells have broken or begun to tear, or even significantly deformed. There are metal inserts folded within the shells for vertical support, and the drawers have sturdy plastic rails on top of exposed cardboard on which to hang "hanging file folders" for lateral support. Each drawer has a strong plastic loop handle. And when the shells are clipped together, the whole assembly is quite sturdy. Actually quite impressed.
But water is not their friend.
Storage space is limited, but I find storage time is even more limited.
My password manager has an old password for the Daz site but I forgot how to update it.
Time to store things you mean? Actually I love to take time to store things. I think I was born to organize things. I made my living programming computers & networks and I did well at it, but organizing things was my love. Everyplace I worked at had immaculate shelves and neatly labeled miscellaneous crap. All indexed and sorted logically so that any idiot could find something. The trouble was, the idiots would find things, take them without letting me know, and not bring them back or worse yet, put things back in the wrong place.
I got into hot water more than once for getting paid as a consultant and working as a stock manager. I'm sorry, I can't get to work until all the Ps and Qs are in a row with the ducks. Then just watch me fly.
I keep getting logged off complaint from these forums
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?
Yes
No
Clear plastic. You'll pay once and you'll cry only once.
You must have missed "The Great Office Store Consolidation" a few years back when Staples wanted to acquire both Office Depot and Office Max; got denied by antitrust regulators, then Office Depot acquired Office Max anyway, had a big sale, closed some stores, and we all got 15 year supplies of note pads, scissors, pens, and pencils at the big "Going out of Business, Everything Must Go!" liquidation sales. My personal favorite is the ten matching waste baskets all around my house; gotten for less than a song and a two-step shuffle!
Once again, plastic is the miracle you're looking for. Or you can spray them with an outdoor clear-coat like Krylon. That would protect them! Or just buy plastic bins/storage drawers and only cry once.
An interesting way to put it.
I am thinking of setting up a litlle decluttering triage-table in my kitchen this weekend and going through all of my battery and lightbulb drawers.
...yeah I could do with at least one stack of those.
I have an old metal file cabinet that has seen better days which is the archive for all the RPG game scenarios I wrote as well as a tonne of sketches, outlines, notes, background material adn a partial script, for a multi volume Sci-Fi graphic novel I started work on few decades ago. I ended up shelving the story idea as back then as GNs were still a relatively new format, and you pretty much had to deal with one of the big comic book companies like Marvel or DC to get it published (which meant letting them pretty much take control of the project). Self publishing would have not only been an expensive endeavour, but a logistical nightmare as well, from creation (pencilling, inking colouring all on my own) to printing to distribution. Most likely, it wouldn't have broke even ande ended up in bankruptcy which was the usual fate of many such attempts. Still, I hoped to come back to it someday when finances were better and I could set up a studio with a team of artists who would visually interpret it more in line with the original vision I had, not that of some comic publisher CEO (besides, I pretty much always sucked at inking).
..well suffice to say, that never happened, so the materials all just sat there in the file drawers collecting dust for years.
However, having been into 3D for a while now I've been mulling about resurrecting the project releasing it as a series of GN's on the Net as I pretty much could now do it myself This is part of the reason I have been studying modelling more diligently as I need to create clothing that is unique to the various cultures, along with items like the distinctive spacecraft, structures, vehicles, world settings, and various props. yes it still will be a monumental project, but one I can finally see actually taking shape.
Oh and Leela's story is still on track.
My stupid phone only can track steps if I am carrying it around. What if my outfit doesn't have any pockets?