VAAAAACAAAAASHUNNNN, update numero uno

[etumukutenyak]

Metro shelving is now put together, the easiest one so far -- all those hours of swearing and getting fingers pinched have finally paid off. Of course, Cinder attempted to escape from the room, as the door doesn't close tightly when the ambient humidity drops below 35%, and it can be easily pushed open by a cat nose. Ha. After her failure, she hopped up onto the lower shelf where her "bed" is, and watched me put the new one up. BT disappeared the instant I started shifting things around, as her hiding place was in this location and I was doing Strange Things, which means she needs to hide anyway. I think she went behind the heat pump which would be a nice quiet and warm place to go.

The AC/Heating company has been called, and they will come out tomorrow for the annual checkup requested by the heat pump. Yes, the thermostat gives us messages like "Annual check requested" and other fine things. Since it's so polite about it, the least I can do is call it in.

Now I need to make a shopping list for Homo Depot* and plan to pick up a few items for the fixing of things, like a sheet of plywood for the bottom of the shelving in the pantry closet. I had measured the space, but didn't measure between the baseboards, and the shelving unit was just the right size for the closet..only above the baseboards. So now I need to raise up the shelving unit with a platform.

I also need some shelf brackets to put in a few upper shelves for a different closet, although that may wait a bit.

I finally got some longer staples, but we still haven't fixed the cable line under the bedroom -- I went in the other day, and managed not to succeed at placing the new whatchamacallit or at crimping it on. Hmph. They make it sound so simple.

I suppose I should think about dinner too.




*You do see a lot of lesbians there, don't you? It's practically our ancient gathering place.

Comments

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I have a programmable thermostat, but it's not that smart. And good tip on the baseboard. I'm thinking of buying a table to go next to the desk and measured from wall to desk, not baseboard to desk. I'll have to check where the legs are -- on the corner or slightly inward.

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

This thermostat came with the heat pump, so it is full of Bells and Whistles like that. We have a regular programmable thermostat that we put in for the other furnace, and it's not nearly as smart. I'm hoping to replace the old furnace in the next few years (preferably with a three-fuel furnace like my folks have, only I probably will run into some law in MD that prohibits such furnaces). Either that, or get a pellet stove and put that in the front fireplace, the one we don't use because of the exposed wood in the throat. A pellet stove would generate more heat than a fireplace, and it would provide heat in the right area of the house.

Yes, those baseboards are sneaky. I'd measured the closet several times, and I was very surprised by the end result. Currently the shelf unit is in the closet right at the door, where there are no baseboards; we'd planned to have it back in the corner of the closet.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

My thermostat came with the new heat pump 20 months ago and I'm pretty sure they would have programmed it to remind me if it did that! And the thing is, I don't actually need a programmable thermostat. I keep the temp at 70F all year round (unless the weather outside is temperate enough to open windows, in which case I turn the heat pump off). I don't have as much tolerance for temperature ranges as I did before I got sick and all my electricity averages about $65 a month, so it's not a problem financially.

I think the pellet stoves are interesting. Not only are fireplaces impractical, but they're more dangerous, too. The pellet stoves give you more control and more directed heat.

The table is partly for the cats, who clearly would like a place to sit where I can pet them from the desk chair, and for the printer, because if I take the printer off the desktop, I can put the Eee there when I'm ready to link it in. I can move the desk some more out into the room, but I want a decent space to move around it. Charlie recommended I play with it for a while with the current distro and then try the Eeebuntu distro so I'm still at the playing with it. Actually, I'm still installing all the updates that come down the line every time I boot up! Then I'm playing with the different apps and seeing how they work. The big thing I don't like so far is that I can't see the innards of the software and haven't found a way to get to it (like getting to DOS from Windows). I'll have to ask if Eeebuntu has that.