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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
I have to....what bookshelf project?
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Originally Posted by LazyScot
I have no idea, but I think even Sysiphus took a look and walked away. (Which I think generally means RickyMaveety thinks it is a task worthy of her talents.  ) |
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
even hercules wouldn't take on most of them. |
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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Well, when you lose your 'arse', you have to have something to occupy your time.
Hey, I didn't say it.....SHE did!
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Oh .... jeeps!!
OK .... the "bookshelf project." I am building three 6 foot tall freestanding bookshelves for my office. They were (are) intended to sit on a credenza at the back of the office.
I measured very carefully, so that the bookshelves would fit quite nicely, and then the plan was to put some additional trim on them so they would look like a single 9 foot by 6 foot bookshelf.
However, at the last minute, I decided to put some different trim on each of the three. Unfortunately each trim piece added 1/4 inch to each side of each set of shelves ... and in the end, they hung over the credenza by a full inch and a half.
Rather than pull them completely apart, I decided to make a new top for the credenza. The new top was supposed to be 76 inches long .... but a neighbor came over to talk to me while I was cutting the piece, and it ended up being off by 10 inches (never try to do math when someone is trying to bend your ear).
Today, I rebuilt the credenza top. I am going to put legs on the one that was too short, and turn it into a long table to put at the base of my bed in the master bedroom. I also got it primed, and most of the shelves primed and partially painted.
The problem is that I have a video conference with an important client the day after Christmas, and right now the office looks like a bomb went off in here because I took everything down from the wall over the credenza, and cleared everything off the credenza in preparation for putting the bookshelves up.
I need to have this room spotless before the conference, and it has been so cold the last few days, it has been really difficult to spend any time out on the porch working on this thing ... my hands keep freezing making it hard to hold a saw or hammer, and the paint gets too thick to spread on the wood.
Originally, I had planned to have the shelves up by today, which would give me two days to clean the office. Now, I'll be lucky if I have them up on the 25th, and then I'm going to have to stay up most of the night getting everything in order.
To top it all off ... the idiot builder who just finished my neighbor's house screwed up the electricity to my house, and refused to fix it. So, my neighbor had to hire an electrician to come and do the repairs ... which he did, today, but that meant that I had no power for much of the day ... and a lot of my power tools are the plug in type.
Plus, I had to spend some time out in the yard with the electrician reburying the power lines that that dippy builder yanked out of the ground (so hard that he actually disconnected the power line). Sort of hard to be building furniture when you are wielding a shovel ....
Oh .... this isn't the rant thread is it .... well, sorry .... I TOLD you not to ask.