We're but a few staples away from having the Kitty Kondo(tm) completed!
It's game night, so Beloved and the family have some extra hours in which to bond with the fine feline that has caused NINE WEEKS of anguish and effort from us.
I am going to ENJOY being a blob this weekend. Snuggled up with my new kitty and finding her a name.
Hell, I might even post pictures.
But for now, I watch for Chaos' bus... and then get on with stapling mesh into place.
Stick a fork in me, I'm DONE.
Trust me to write this nonse just before I have to watch for Chaos' bus. I'm THAT organised.
So.
Mayhem is home sick with what's looking like a contender for the Ekka Flu. Yay. We didn't even go, and he has it. He's going to be helping me with my bullshit as the day progresses.
I also pln or getting a reserve roller support so Mayhem can join in with the bullshit.
And then... WE PAINT!
...I'll get the story done sometime
Read more »My left knee has decided to co-operate after literally four days of relative hell. Then my left ankle decided, "Nope. We don't get to walk normally any more."
I think my left leg is over its tantrums for now. Just in time for my right leg to pull shenanigans on me. It would just even things out.
But no, wait. My left hip hasn't had a tantrum yet.
Sigh. It's not easy getting old and still needing to do stuff.
Today... I
Read more »OK. So. Beloved and I have begun work on the interior of the Kitty Kondo(tm) more as something to do whilst I paint the last junction box and the table/bench thing we already built for inside it.
Ekka week starts this Friday (also a D&D night), and the following Wednesday, I have my Beloved home to work on things. By this weekend, I should have everything they have made so far painted and ready to rock and/or
Read more »That's a lot... and most of that is normal, average, ordinary BS.
Throughout the week, I have two objects to paint, six if you count each individual angle-iron foot for the final unit of the walkway.
We have a table/chair/bench for the interior of the actual cage and I'm counting that as a pure win.
Read more »So. In one day, we have:
So far, we have added a skin to the junction box, developed a plan, cut off and angle-ground a ramp unit... all to make the Kitty Kondo.
My noodly little writer arms are hurting.
...and I'm taking a lunch break.
There won't be any tales out of me before dark, if then.
Read more »I have just published episode 5 of Inter-Mission, which is now out on Anchor, linked over on the "PODCAST!" link up in the menu, there. It should also be out on the current affiliates with Anchor, which are:
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I've reached an embuggerance with the dang Kitty Kondo (tm) because we know a 10mm hole is too
Read more »Like the late Dent, Arthur Dent, I can never get the hang of Thursdays. They sneak up on me and shock mne with the knowledge that another week is almost over.
Well, shit.
What we have accomplished:
Cool, but emotionally,
Read more »So. I successfully applied a second layer of paint to the box frame. I successfully stapled the lattice at the top of the cage. I successfully cut a piece of wire mesh to size and trimmed the edges with an angle grinder and cut notches in it for the struts of the box.
...just... not quite to size.
I gotta do more grinding to make it fit properly and that's cool. It's cool. It shouldn't take more than half an hour to
Read more »Beloved stayed home, yesterday, and helped me out with making the frame to make a junction box to finish the walkway so we can finish the cat cage.
I'm in the middle of painting it, and I still believe it would go quicker if the whole thing was suspended somehow so I can get to the most territory in the least amount of time.
It shouldn't need to go as far as me building a rig, but I do need to work
Read more »So. I have no idea how our time got stolen this weekend, but it did. I suspect most of it was in the discovery that our Pocket Hole Joint Kit (tm) failed to contain a specific size of screws. Running around after that noise definitely crimped our style.
The one place that has them was shut, too. So that's added to my itinerary today. Brat run, money run, screws if possible.
THEN unfuckening the house, doing the Instants, writing 1K, and building
Read more »We have a much smaller (hopefully cheaper) list of matts to get for some of the last stages of building the exterior walkway.
We have the long stretch of walkway made and ready to install, we have another one almost complete, save for the fact that our supplies literally fell short.
Therefore, this morning, we're going out for matts. The rest of today is going to be spent with me learning how to use dynabolts, and putting together some walkway elements. After
Read more »We know what we were doing wrong with the welding. We have everything we could possibly need (I hope). We have safety gear. We have matts. We have knowledge.
We have to at least finish building the metal bending brake today. Beloved insists we don't need the middle bracer, but I'm certain we do. We'll find out who's correct and who's embarrassed today.
As usual, the story will be likely happening after dark. All my energies this day will be spent in
Read more »Game night is tonight. Tomorrow is bullet days for welding, building the metal bending brake, and finally doing those [EXPLETIVE] walkways. Once everything is together, it should be easy to finish.
Note the qualifier.
It SHOULD be easy to finish. But as a famous pantsless Australian politician once said, "Life was never meant to be easy."
I want to be a whirlwind of activity, but rando BS keeps getting in the way. At least THIS time, we might actually have all the
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