I has builded a bookshelf!

[desperance]

[ETA: I has actually builded a cat-play zone. Apparently.]

It's not a particularly well-builded, or even particularly stable, bookshelf, but there is reasons and causes for this: among them are the buckled nature of the metal supports just where the screws are meant to go in (on account of they had such trouble getting the screws out: I think they went at 'em with hammers in the end), and the fact that I forgot neglected to fix the back on. It's just a temporary structure anyway, thrown up in the hallway to accommodate the first load of books that I have to take off extant shelving, in order to remove said extant shelving, in order to replace it with another and stronger of my new-built shelving units. Yes. Like that. There's probably a word for it. I'll probably take down this bookshelf in the end, but it's dead handy right now. Going to be. Soon as I start shifting books.

Meantime, the warm glow of the accomplished craftsperson (snerk - you'll notice I'm not posting photos. Even of the cats being cute on shelves), and my dinner awaits. Hungry now. I has earned it.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

As someone who intends to build five bookshelves between tomorrow afternoon and Thursday morning, I am in great sympathy.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yay! We could do competitive cooperative bookshelfbuilding! Transatlantic teamwork! I have, um, a few more than five to build (if I had the wallspace, which I don't, I think I could run to twenty-seven...), but hey. It's not the distance, it's the race that counts...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I don't know that that's fair to you: I have the secret weapon named My Mom....

[desperance.livejournal.com]

You're right; deploying Moms is definitely an unfair advantage (mine is 86, five foot tall and the other end of the country; she'd come none the less - but no, I think I'll leave her where she is).

No race, then. Just progress reports, metrics & mutual encouragement. I might put another case together this afternoon: one of the rival design, just to check that I'm right about how that one works...