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weekend catchup
First Friday Gallery Art Crawl was great.
Saturday
* Bought six utility shelves and barely managed to get them in the Scion in one trip, with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) maegwynn half-squished under one in the front seat rather than make two trips.
* Disposed of the sagging particleboard and cinderblock shelving unit in the upstairs storage room that I call the office and moved the mounds of computer detritus surrounding half the room away from the walls.
* Assembled (maegwynn) and filled (me) five of the shelves along two adjacent walls in the office, filling three of the five shelves with the previously-mentioned computer detritus,
* …moved the ungainly stacks of the comics boxes from the library to shelf four - the utility shelves hold two boxes per shelf, so I'll have to move at most two boxes to get to any one item, and the library looks less cluttered now,
* …then we hauled all of the graphic novels and absolute editions and such from the nook in the home theatre space downstairs up to the office to fill shelf five. Leaving the gaming shelves where they are for now. (Found some periodicals tucked in with the graphic novels that I'd forgotten I had - a year or so of SF Eye and about the same of Fringeware Review.)
* Gathered the various overrun stacks of CDs and DVDs from around the home theatre space to fill the newly-freed shelves. I should get a new CD and a DVD rack, but that will probably have to wait for a bit before I do that.
* Ran Vincent Price's 1963 _Diary of a Madman_ for the evening with friends, followed by random discussions, much of them involving cats. We have great friends.
Sunday
* Lost the only remaining adult scorpion in the tank - the two recent births seem to be doing fine, they just molted week before last and are growing and active. So much for "rise and face the day!" caption from this morning's daily scorpion photo before I found the overnight death. Mmmm…
* Cleaned up and made room in the laundry room space so I could put utility shelf #6 down there, and
* Moved the *entire* pile of Halloween decorations and props from the upstairs bedroom to the laundry room shelf and its immediate environs. I must state that maegwynn was very tolerant and helpful with "let's rearrange multiple rooms in the house and go up and down the stairs repeatedly with heavy items".
* I read the final 2/3 of Dhalgren - while I've read a lot of Delany I don't believe I ever read this before. Loved it. Dhalgren is so my kind of book in several ways it's surprising that I haven't read it before. Took some great notes for the urbanomancy file. Mind you, I'm now looking forward to the Venture Brothers and Metalocalypse later tonight as a mental gearshift, but I loved it.
Tags: house, reads, scorpion
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i love dhalgren. it's one of the few books that i have a tendency to pick up, open anywhere, and just start reading. over the past fifteen years (i discovered it on college) i've probably read it the equivalent of a dozen times... also, go you on the house cleanup! sounds like a considerable amount of accomplishment for one weekend. i'm in the process of excavating various neglected areas in my office; i think my spring cleaning came late this year. :) what kind of shelves did you get, and where, and are you happy with them? thebroomecloset just discovered that costco has the clear plastic storage bins with locking lids that we like, and now the only thing standing between me and a basement rampage is our ongoing lack of shelving.
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| Date: | November 9th, 2009 03:20 am (UTC) |
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I was just saying last week that I might have read Dhalgren when I was younger and ate most of the contents of my then-local library's SF shelves, but if I did I've forgotten I did, and now that I've read it I can't picture forgetting it so I can now safely say this weekend was *not* a reread...
The shelf units are modular plastic utility shelving at Lowe's at $40 apiece for 18"x35"x74" five-shelf units (five was important to me, I would suggest confirming the bins you like fit vertically on whatever shelves you buy.) Two locking lugs on the end of each shelf forms ten points of interlock with the unit adjacent - I have a three-row on one wall and an interlocked pair on the other, and they come with a wall bracket attachment for additional stability. They've been fully loaded for thirty hours now and haven't collapsed yet :). You are welcome to eyeball them. (Note these utility shelves have grooves and ridges and are unacceptable as bookshelves without smooth board inserts, but I had enough flat boards for the one unit I moved the graphic novels onto.) |
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