I have just spent all my daylight hours working on the kitty kondo(tm) and I'm pretty much toasted as a result.
We fucked up a post and now I have to go get and cut a new one. Blah. It can be done, but we feel like idiots as a result.
I can plausibly replace that post during the week. There's going to be more jiggery-pokery involved. Of course. But for now, we have post-mix concrete in the post holes and this thing is going to go ahead as it stands.
For now, though, I write.
It was supposed to be merely cloudy today, but it rained anyway. Boo.
After some consideration, we figured that it would be much better to construct the shell, level the structure, and pour in some post-mix into the holes, so now we have a plan of attack that just needs the HUGE MUDDY PUDDLE to dry out.
Fortunately, aquatic pumps exist, and we got ourselves a doozy. It's a green slimline thing that you pipe water into in order to get it
Read more »Second-last day of school for this term for Chaos, last day in Mayhem's term.
Everything on our little building site is wet and squishy and we have to drain it before we do anything and AAARGH!
Meanwhile, I did my first 3K of Kingdom of Sand and I am doing character pieces and I'm loving it.
Therefore, today's early rising was leisurely and most of my time is to be spent on editing more episodes of Oh My Mods. With an aim
Read more »Mayhem has a free day - allegedly. I have already said that he's going to be in trouble if I get any contact from his school about this. Meanwhile, he's helping me with the kittycat shelter.
All things going well, we should have the front entryway side assembled - or mostly assembled - by sunset. In the rain.
This on top of getting a cavity filled. Today is going to be fun.
Story will be happening during any breaks. Thanks in advance
Read more »The family and I got the frame... mostly up. There's still a lot of jiggery-pokery involved, including the assembly of the front door to the little place.
It's only now that I realise that the kitty enclosure is going to be firkin huge and Kitty is truly, truly going to be spoiled. It's a room that's only a smidge smaller than the dorm room my love used to live in when they were in uni. For a human, that's criminally small. For
Read more »Today, we shall be boxing out and digging the footprint, if all goes well. Similarly, scattering the base of the footprint with drainage gravel because that's how it works.
Ten o'clock is almost here, and that means noise shall be allowed.
The story, of course, will be happening. Just later than normal and possibly dripping with frustration because... Even though we can do all this, the forecast is for a week of rain :P
I hate that this is taking so long.
Read more »So. We have a guest from the States who's due to fly south for the winter to do some technogeek stuff over there. I know not if they're coming back for another sleepover before they head home.
Either way, Beloved is taking them to the airport this AM so we're delayed in going off and seeking things to make the Kitty Kondo(tm) be real. That's fine. It lets me attempt to focus and make at minimum, this blog entry.
It's... not
Read more »Good news: game night is back on.
Bad news: next week.
Good news: I finished all the sawing and we made a door.
Bad news: without thinking that we needed to paint that mofo first.
Good news: The second episode of Inter-Mission has launched and you can listen to it minus the playlist here, or check out the playlist linked in the menu up on the top right of the page.
Bad news: Yeah, now I have to do a new ep
Read more »I only have a few more boards to put notches in. Which means that I will run out of things to do for the Kitty Kondo(tm) in time for the weekend. Which I am praying will be dry enough for the concrete nonsense so we can finish this darn thing whilst Meep is still a kitten.
Sigh.
At least I know she's loved in her current home, so there is that.
Meanwhile, I'm approaching 1K in the first words I shouldn't
Read more »I do my blogging and Instant only vaguely out of order. Whoops. I got caught up in other things. Again.
After that's done, I spare a moment to make the bed in the spare room for Impending US guest, making sure the path is clear and there's some room for whatever luggage they have. Then I go out and saw holes into boards until noodle arms happen or lunch is necessary, whichever happens first.
After that is all done, or mostly done,
Read more »Following a worse night. Like, shit. I was already exhausted from a combo of eff-off AM wake-up and stressing about the Kitty Kondo(tm)... but last night.
Ugh.
I went to bed at like 6:30, sure I was going to sleep the night. Nope. Twenty-minute naps at best, interspersed with waking up to either Beloved's television choices or Chaos on her giggle runs up and down the hall.
Until nearly firkin midnight. Like cheese, peeps. Have some mercy.
The rest of
Read more »We are now in progress on a University-dorm-room-sized rectangle that is going to contain the concrete bed of the Kitty Kondo(tm). Once we've moved all the grass and created a really interesting rectangular muddy hole, of course.
We're in overtime. I'm freaking out. Baby Meep is ready to have a new home, but her home isn't ready yet and everything is going so slowly and AUGH!
It's stressing me out, but I gotta keep going. Otherwise it'll never get done. It's
Read more »I have to notch the last post in my queue, measure a bunch of boards and cut them to size because they don't match the measurements in the PLN, mark them up for notches and then calibrate the circular saw so the notches match the PLN.
But I wanna...
Sigh.
But I can't. Because
Read more »Episode six of Inter-Mission is now a finished thing that is ready for export into Soundcloud. Yay.
Just because it can take me a week to do an episode, doesn't mean it will take a week. My sleep is unpredictable, and my time windows are varied. My plan is to 'push' to make a new episode as soon as one is out on the aether, so I still have my buffer zone.
I'm fast approaching an impasse with the Kitty Kondo. Notching
Read more »I have to do the writing things. Obviously. My Tumblr inbox is empty so any TAZ flash fanfictions I come up with will be my own. Yay, I guess. One less thing to fret about.
I moved a whole pile of dirt [and likely 14 nuts within] to fill a hole, and that was hard yakka. I need to finish notching the posts, but I need assistance on that shiznit, so the PLN, such as it is, will include more ground prep.
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