Thursdaily

[ellenmillion]

This morning, so far, I have ironed and made Jake's lunch, and now I am wandering around wanting more coffee and wondering why my email is being so stinking slow. And also, why are there still 294 emails to deal with. Shouldn't all this stuff be taking care of itself?? (I can dream...)

I did get logins at Sketch Fest functioning. But it doesn't prevent someone from using a registered name, yet. Or allow registration. Or build artist pages... So, still some to do before tomorrow... (Sketch Fest! Tomorrow!)

I found a whole bunch of awesome photos from when we were building our house. Some of them are a little small, but there's still a lot of story there. Would anyone be interested in a building re-cap, going from design, through construction, living with construction, plumbing, electrical - everything that goes into a house? There are a lot of funny stories that are spread out over 8-odd years of building in this blog, and several that I only mentioned briefly or never posted pictures here for. I figure I could also intersperse how-tos and how-not-tos, adding illustrations where I didn't have photos. It would be Alaska-specific, talking about insulation and vapor barrier and stuff that may not apply to you lower-48ers, and would have a certain amount of the engineering and technical background I haven't dragged down LJ with. I'd probably set this up at an independent blog - maybe wordpress? - but mirror it back here. I could post once a week without breaking a sweat - it's stuff I like to talk about anyway. Any interest here?

Back to work!

Comments

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[ladyqkat.livejournal.com]

I have ironed and made Jake's lunch

How does one iron a lunch before making it?

Also, I would be interested in the house-building tales as I have had the questionable joy in my life of living through a 'let's convert the extra bedroom into a dining room' and building an addition on to the same house using a builder of questionable skills who sent over a kid with a chainsaw to start the work and he cut through the trusses and panicked when the garage started collapsing in on itself.

Plus, during my folk's stint of full-time RVing, they wintered in Alaska (started in Fairbanks then moved to Anchorage) one year and had a blast. They also had a cat who loved the snow.

Re: Query

[coldtortuga.livejournal.com]

How does one iron a lunch before making it?
I was going to make a snarky comment about ironing one's lunch, but now I am veritably in awe: "...before making it" is a waaaay better comment than anything I was coming up with :-)

Re: Query

[ladyqkat.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

BTW - like your name (Nyet Ya Koshka) as my extremely-limited-knowledge-of-Russian-despite-the-fact-that-I-played-a-Russian-in-the-SCA-for-a-time consists of "Dom ot chien kolika koshka" (apologies for the mangled spelling) which I was informed meant "House of the Crippled Cat" which was my household name.

Icon is the house badge based on the cat who was the mascot the household was named after - Dagger.

Re: Query

[coldtortuga.livejournal.com]

See http://wordsmith.org/awad/awadmail72.html for the origin of the phrase :-)

[dormantdrake.livejournal.com]

I've always had a curiosity about your house building tales. :)

[minor-architect.livejournal.com]

I'd like to hear your house-construction tales! kagetsume and I both like learning about home-building and renovation. :)

[pixiewildflower.livejournal.com]

((HUGS))

[kelkyag]

Construction tales would be fascinating. (Vapor barriers are definitely applicable around here, though the insulation is probably not quite so heavy-duty.)