Paint, Build, Write
May. 7th, 2023 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aPAINT, PAINT
Well, with the lanai paint from Home Depot on what I expect is a long delay, I decided to put a second coat of primer on the new boards on our lanai to protect them from the elements.
I actually had to dodge rain to do so, and then got a little shower after I'd done the first few feet, but that's exactly why I want them better protected.
It pleasantly didn't take too long because I had a wider brush than I'd used previously and it was easier to do them all together. With two coats of primer I'm hopeful that the new boards will now be fine *however* long it takes Home Depot to get in the base color we need. (Because I'd originally planned for maybe just two coats: one primer and one paint, though that'll ultimately depend on how the deck looks after one coat of paint.)
BUILD, BUILD
Also on my list today was putting in some more work on the problematic BoardGameTable shelves. Every time I work on them it's hard not to tally up the poor design (screw holes too big, so there's considerable play and it takes considerable effort to get them all lined up and often requires a rubber mallet after they move at the last minute as the screw tightens; sides are fragile due to poor design of the slots for linking shelves together, and so it's possible to break them with a rubber mallet, something I've done once so far; wood is too soft and so it's possible to keep tightening the screw right into the wood; slight variance on heights, so that shelves don't precisely line up). But I'm hoping they'll mainly fade away as the shelves are complete assembled and in use.
Kimberly is unfortunately feeling ill today, something possibly picked up at the pool where she's started water aerobics as PT again, so I was at the shelves on my own. But I still put together 3/5th of the third row. Another two sessions and it'll likely all be together but then I still have to fight with the horrible doors to get them something close to straight.
And then the great board game reshelving can begin, and maybe I can find some people to invite over to play.
WRITE, WRITE
Most of my writing is done on weekdays nowadays, now that I two to three workdays for my personal projects.
But, I also did a bit this weekend. Mainly because I had some bonus work to do.
As I wrote yesterday, I deconstructed chapter 5 of my fourth TSR book and used half of that to revise chapter 3. It made me happy to do some organizational work that I think is a definite improvement for seeing how everything hangs together, and I got it done just in time, because I had the old chapter 3 (and 4) queued up for preview on my Patreon tomorrow.
Then today I got all of my AtoZChallenge ready to go for RPGnet (which meant lots of formatting but I also did a very light edit through the whole thing as I went. That should (re)appear there in May and June. Total came out to 16,000 words, a pretty big additional bit of writing for last month. As usual, it gave me some great interaction with roleplaying folks and gave me some new points-of-view on roleplaying history, so it was well worthwhile.
Though everything is off to Rose at RPGnet, I also want to put together a PDF of the entire content for anyone interested, so I'm not quite done yet.
Well, with the lanai paint from Home Depot on what I expect is a long delay, I decided to put a second coat of primer on the new boards on our lanai to protect them from the elements.
I actually had to dodge rain to do so, and then got a little shower after I'd done the first few feet, but that's exactly why I want them better protected.
It pleasantly didn't take too long because I had a wider brush than I'd used previously and it was easier to do them all together. With two coats of primer I'm hopeful that the new boards will now be fine *however* long it takes Home Depot to get in the base color we need. (Because I'd originally planned for maybe just two coats: one primer and one paint, though that'll ultimately depend on how the deck looks after one coat of paint.)
BUILD, BUILD
Also on my list today was putting in some more work on the problematic BoardGameTable shelves. Every time I work on them it's hard not to tally up the poor design (screw holes too big, so there's considerable play and it takes considerable effort to get them all lined up and often requires a rubber mallet after they move at the last minute as the screw tightens; sides are fragile due to poor design of the slots for linking shelves together, and so it's possible to break them with a rubber mallet, something I've done once so far; wood is too soft and so it's possible to keep tightening the screw right into the wood; slight variance on heights, so that shelves don't precisely line up). But I'm hoping they'll mainly fade away as the shelves are complete assembled and in use.
Kimberly is unfortunately feeling ill today, something possibly picked up at the pool where she's started water aerobics as PT again, so I was at the shelves on my own. But I still put together 3/5th of the third row. Another two sessions and it'll likely all be together but then I still have to fight with the horrible doors to get them something close to straight.
And then the great board game reshelving can begin, and maybe I can find some people to invite over to play.
WRITE, WRITE
Most of my writing is done on weekdays nowadays, now that I two to three workdays for my personal projects.
But, I also did a bit this weekend. Mainly because I had some bonus work to do.
As I wrote yesterday, I deconstructed chapter 5 of my fourth TSR book and used half of that to revise chapter 3. It made me happy to do some organizational work that I think is a definite improvement for seeing how everything hangs together, and I got it done just in time, because I had the old chapter 3 (and 4) queued up for preview on my Patreon tomorrow.
Then today I got all of my AtoZChallenge ready to go for RPGnet (which meant lots of formatting but I also did a very light edit through the whole thing as I went. That should (re)appear there in May and June. Total came out to 16,000 words, a pretty big additional bit of writing for last month. As usual, it gave me some great interaction with roleplaying folks and gave me some new points-of-view on roleplaying history, so it was well worthwhile.
Though everything is off to Rose at RPGnet, I also want to put together a PDF of the entire content for anyone interested, so I'm not quite done yet.