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A day of lots of painting, most of which is more or less invisible on a photograph coz it's the clear-coat varnish over the top of the wood stain. Does it look more shiny? To the eye it does, but even that may fade as it dries. The clear coat is important to protect the wood though.
For the first time all the exposed wood is blue though. Hurray.
One more days work tomorrow, then we're off for six days while I have to work and play away.
Another day of mostly painting and double-varnishing. Though the chests also have lids now, and all the window doors are painted ready for the windows.
We now pause for a while because I can't be here all day every day due to my surprisingly hectic calendar over the next couple of weeks.
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Another day of mostly painting and double-varnishing. Though the chests also have lids now, and all the window doors are painted ready for the windows.
We now pause for a while because I can't be here all day every day due to my surprisingly hectic calendar over the next couple of weeks.
A couple of days of just layering varnish and painting which didn't change anything visibly enough to bother with photos. But today, the windowed doors are starting to be completed. Three of them up.
This is what really makes the difference and makes it suddenly reminiscent of the Tardis.
Hopefully it'll be finished next week, they say. But they have said that before. The windowed doors have to be finished, the detailing to make the doors look panelled, handles, holes for cables, there's a bit of coving I decided to add to help carry wires and lights across the gap above the desk. More painting. Mirrors to be glued to doors.
We shall see :fingers_crossed:
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A couple of days of just layering varnish and painting which didn't change anything visibly enough to bother with photos. But today, the windowed doors are starting to be completed. Three of them up.
This is what really makes the difference and makes it suddenly reminiscent of the Tardis.
Hopefully it'll be finished next week, they say. But they have said that before. The windowed doors have to be finished, the detailing to make the doors look panelled, handles, holes for cables, there's a bit of coving I decided to add to help carry wires and lights across the gap above the desk. More painting. Mirrors to be glued to doors.
We shall see :fingers_crossed:
All the windowed doors up now, though some adjustment of hinges is still needed. Lots of the trim to fake the panels painted. There's struts everywhere.
No work being done tomorrow, two men in on Wednesday and Friday.
He still seems to think it might be finished by the end of the week. I still find myself doubting it.
Very glad to have a day off building and off work and off having to get up in the mornings tomorrow. I can lie in bed until noon if I want for the first time since October I think.
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All the windowed doors up now, though some adjustment of hinges is still needed. Lots of the trim to fake the panels painted. There's struts everywhere.
No work being done tomorrow, two men in on Wednesday and Friday.
He still seems to think it might be finished by the end of the week. I still find myself doubting it.
Very glad to have a day off building and off work and off having to get up in the mornings tomorrow. I can lie in bed until noon if I want for the first time since October I think.
The windowed doors are definitely the thing that really makes it, but the paneling trim going on today helps a lot too. More of that to be done still, just on the draws and chests really. Can't do the short draws because the clearance is too tight and they'd block the big drawers from opening.
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The windowed doors are definitely the thing that really makes it, but the paneling trim going on today helps a lot too. More of that to be done still, just on the draws and chests really. Can't do the short draws because the clearance is too tight and they'd block the big drawers from opening.
More of the edging, most of the handles, many of the holes I asked for are there so cables can get where they need to. They've been painting a bit and varnishing a bit and the coving is prepared for the gap above the windows there.
One more day, they say. One more day. I'll have to make a list of everything still to be done over the weekend.
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More of the edging, most of the handles, many of the holes I asked for are there so cables can get where they need to. They've been painting a bit and varnishing a bit and the coving is prepared for the gap above the windows there.
One more day, they say. One more day. I'll have to make a list of everything still to be done over the weekend.
Not finished today, but surely surely finished tomorrow!?
Mirrors stuck onto the doors. Quite a lot of mirror. Makes the room feel bigger.
All the trim and handles are on now. Just one hole for cables missing. Catches need to be put on the blind-doors. Adjusting the doors so they open and close smoothly. Couple of lights to be attached. Painting and decorating touch-up.
Actually do believe they'll finish tomorrow.
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Not finished today, but surely surely finished tomorrow!?
Mirrors stuck onto the doors. Quite a lot of mirror. Makes the room feel bigger.
All the trim and handles are on now. Just one hole for cables missing. Catches need to be put on the blind-doors. Adjusting the doors so they open and close smoothly. Couple of lights to be attached. Painting and decorating touch-up.
Actually do believe they'll finish tomorrow.
Hard to photograph these little alien owls that are reading lights in the headboard. They seem to have shipped with a cable which doesn't really fit into their cable holes. Needs one with a tight right angle.
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Hard to photograph these little alien owls that are reading lights in the headboard. They seem to have shipped with a cable which doesn't really fit into their cable holes. Needs one with a tight right angle.
Not the final lights but ones with batteries I have lying around. They'll have lights chasing up and down the length of the windows and changing colour and warping when it's done next year.
Make 'em flash with the materialisation noise as an alarm clock maybe 😆
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Not the final lights but ones with batteries I have lying around. They'll have lights chasing up and down the length of the windows and changing colour and warping when it's done next year.
Make 'em flash with the materialisation noise as an alarm clock maybe 😆
Bedroom is done! Well. Builders are finished anyway. I still have to buy a bed and stuff to put in it, and since I've spent all my money that'll have to wait until payday. And then it's nearly xmas so probably better to wait until January.
There's a clasp missing to hold the window shutters shut. The one we had was too big. Should be able to screw one in myself tomorrow.
Doing all the lights and stuff will takes months and months probably.
But I can go back to sleeping in late instead of getting up to let the builders in every day.
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Bedroom is done! Well. Builders are finished anyway. I still have to buy a bed and stuff to put in it, and since I've spent all my money that'll have to wait until payday. And then it's nearly xmas so probably better to wait until January.
There's a clasp missing to hold the window shutters shut. The one we had was too big. Should be able to screw one in myself tomorrow.
Doing all the lights and stuff will takes months and months probably.
But I can go back to sleeping in late instead of getting up to let the builders in every day.
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Three more shots then while it's still nice. Looks pretty great in there, I am pleased.
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Three more shots then while it's still nice. Looks pretty great in there, I am pleased.
A little bit of left over wood. I figure best used as spare shelves in the closet and the alcove. A couple of steady boards upon which to rest the treadmill. Extra spare steady board for unknown purposes currently but might as well.
So some bits actually cut and painted myself.
Gotta spin them and do the other side tomorrow.
Then a varnish each side the next two days.
Then the bed arrives. Decided to order it and go overdraft if needed. Ordered in untreated pine so I can paint it to match the cupboards.
So a few days painting that before assembling.
Don't worry, I didn't cut them wrong, they're supposed to not all be square 😆
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A little bit of left over wood. I figure best used as spare shelves in the closet and the alcove. A couple of steady boards upon which to rest the treadmill. Extra spare steady board for unknown purposes currently but might as well.
So some bits actually cut and painted myself.
Gotta spin them and do the other side tomorrow.
Then a varnish each side the next two days.
Then the bed arrives. Decided to order it and go overdraft if needed. Ordered in untreated pine so I can paint it to match the cupboards.
So a few days painting that before assembling.
Don't worry, I didn't cut them wrong, they're supposed to not all be square 😆
Varnished the shelves. At least until I ran out of varnish anyway. Stained the first half of the bed. The stain takes ages to dry. Will have to flip and stain the other half tomorrow. Varnish on Tuesday if more has arrived. That dries much faster, might even get two coats on both sides during one day. Then I can have a bed on Wednesday?
At which point I will know the maximum height for a mattress. The bed is pretty low because to determine the height of the doors for storage at the end of the bed, I measured my old bed. Which was apparently lower than most, being a waterbed frame with a spring mattress in it.
So total bed height has to be under 50cm and a mattress can take 30 or more of that. But with this low bed I might even have room for a topper.
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Varnished the shelves. At least until I ran out of varnish anyway. Stained the first half of the bed. The stain takes ages to dry. Will have to flip and stain the other half tomorrow. Varnish on Tuesday if more has arrived. That dries much faster, might even get two coats on both sides during one day. Then I can have a bed on Wednesday?
At which point I will know the maximum height for a mattress. The bed is pretty low because to determine the height of the doors for storage at the end of the bed, I measured my old bed. Which was apparently lower than most, being a waterbed frame with a spring mattress in it.
So total bed height has to be under 50cm and a mattress can take 30 or more of that. But with this low bed I might even have room for a topper.
I like the smile formed by the bed's legs where it's connections will go.
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This is distressing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp39kngz008o
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Le persone cambiano, su questo non c'è ombra di dubbio. Siamo quantomeno tutti delle navi di Teseo in quanto organismi con un ciclo di rinnovamento cellulare.
Non lo so come funzioni per le cellule nervose, per la verità, ma suppongo che riproducano di meno per garantire una sorta di stabilità e coerenza di personalità... o forse no, ma non importa.
Mi accorgo che le mie posizioni su alcuni temi etici stanno virando, non capovolgendo, sia chiaro, ma stanno cambiando. Mi viene da dire che si stanno ricalibrando come se le condizioni di contorno e i limiti fossero cambiati e bisognasse riproiettarle su un nuovo sistema di riferimento.
Eppure frequento solo il Fediverso, come social network online. Non guardo la TV, penso solo al lavoro e ad alcuni hobby.
Dunque cosa fa cambiare la mia percezione del mondo? Davvero le 10 ore di ufficio, di cui forse in totale 15-20 minuti effettivi trascorsi con colleghi al caffé, che alla fine non la pensano nemmeno troppo diversamente da me, hanno questo potere di far virare la mia visione del mondo in modo non radicale, ma comunque percettibile?
Non è che improvvisamente, per dirne una, i generatori di immagini o di testi mi sembrano diventati eticamente accettabili, ma li vedo come meno inaccettabili rispetto per dire ad un anno fa. E questo sta accadendo su diverse cose, che una volta mi parevano monoliti tra miei valori etici.
Le mie certezze sono meno assolute. I miei capisaldi, meno saldi.
Ci ho fatto caso oggi stesso, postando un testo che ha sollevato diverse critiche da persone con cui sono in contatto da anni qui sul Fediverso. L'ho riletto più volte e sì, c'erano un paio di battute di cattivo gusto, che forse un anno fa non avrei fatto, ma che oggi ho trovato buffe o umoristiche. E nonostante ci abbia riflettuto e compreso, accettato come legittimo, il punto di vista di chi me le ha segnalate, continuo a non vederci tutto sommato un male assoluto... ma piuttosto una sensibilità violata, questo sì.
Possibile che io possa aver recepito, senza essere stato esposto in alcun modo massiccio, il bombardamento propagandistico culturale filo-MAGA mitragliato ad oltranza dall'America verso i Paesi occidentali? Lo spero, perché l'alternativa vorrebbe dire che sono rincoglionito, e a quello non c'è, ahimé, alcun rimedio...
No, credo che sia quello che ho detto all'inizio. Credo che il contesto determini la risposta, e cambiando radicalmente, induca degli aggiustamenti sulle priorità dei valori che sostengono i comportamenti.
Credo che, dopo anni a cercare (e non riuscire a trovare) il modo di cambiare la percezione e le opinioni dentro la testa delle persone, qualcuno abbia raggiunto una sorta di massa critica che gli consente di alterare a piacere il contesto pubblico (tipo le big tech) per cambiare la risposta delle persone. Molto pratico. E agghiacciante.
O forse sono invecchiato e mi sto rincoglionendo?
O forse sto diventando uno stronzo e sto cercando un capro espiatorio?
O forse lo sempre stato e mi sono nascosto dietro a un dito che oggi non mia coperto abbastanza?
Non lo so, ma basta adesso vado a sedermi sulla mia seggiolina di vimini con una coperta a quadri sulle gambe, a guardare Retequattro. E morirò sbavando.
