The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 06

[TxRad]

The midnight coffee is ready for consumption. Have at it.

One more page writing and I'll be off to bed. Come on fingers, do your thing. All three of ya.

 

[Handley_Page]

I was please to note, this morning, that eBay coughed up a few of my ordered things, including a copy of "7 Samurai" (1954, A. Kurosawa) which I shall enjoy this afternoon, I think. With a really long hot coffee. . . .

 

[NotWise]

We're having an unpleasant morning. The temperature is just above freezing and the sustained winds are close to 50mph with gusts to 65mph. It's raining and/or snowing sideways on and off.

But the coffee's good.

 

[ecorche]

The cats have stopped regurgitating and the dog has done its business in the yard. Finally I can post this reply.

In total, there are twenty two book by fourteen authors. Three of those authors are me. None of them have anything to do with politics. After about four hours of talking with the ladies and listening to their discussions on just the flyer and author profiles, I came away with a big admiration for them all. Also about a dozen plot bunnies.

I'm thinking a glory hole scene where you have no idea if it's a conservative or liberal on the other side of the wall.

“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then He made school boards.” Mark Twain

LOL.

 

[NotWise]

Me and a few thousand of my close friends got together this morning for our covid shots. The vaccination center was a former Honeywell electronics plant. It took about an hour spent mostly standing in line.

The line was long when I went in, but quite a bit longer when I got out.

 

[sirhugs]

Me and a few thousand of my close friends got together this morning for our covid shots. The vaccination center was a former Honeywell electronics plant. It took about an hour spent mostly standing in line.

The line was long when I went in, but quite a bit longer when I got out.

the facility I attended this afternoon ran smoothly. I was jabbed at the appointed time. Round trip from my house, with spring snow, was an hour. Only actual waiting was unfortunately outside the main door, a they only allowed one person in the vestibule at a time. Once inside had one screener; two checkers; six jabbers; two checkout people.

as is the typical Ontario experience, at this rate we aren't jabbing many people, but we are well organized.

 

[TxRad]

Congrats on the jabs, guys.

The evening coffee is ready.

Spent a lot of time in the shop but didn't get much done. Mostly cleaning and sorting. The clouds were heavy but the rain didn't really materialize. A few mists but that was about it.

 

[oggbashan]

So give it another 400 years and our stories will also be historical documents.

I the 1960s I went to a live performance in London. The whores assaulted the audience...

 

[NotWise]

Spent a lot of time in the shop but didn't get much done. Mostly cleaning and sorting. The clouds were heavy but the rain didn't really materialize. A few mists but that was about it.

I have a plan for my shop/garage. It needs to be rewired, insulated and drywalled, and I want a new garage door. The first thing I have to do is build two mobile work benches, then I can start knocking things off the walls. Both of the existing work benches and a storage shelf are attached to the bare studs. Those have to go, and everything else just hanging on the walls has to go someplace else.

I think I need a shed.

 

[PoisonPen33]

I the 1960s I went to a live performance in London. The whores assaulted the audience...

Reminds me of a line from Dirty Work - "Ah ha! You forgot about my loyal army of prostitutes!"

 

[Rustyoznail]

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I think I need a shed.

Well, of course! At least one. Doesn't matter about the size.

 

[TxRad]

I have a plan for my shop/garage. It needs to be rewired, insulated and drywalled, and I want a new garage door. The first thing I have to do is build two mobile work benches, then I can start knocking things off the walls. Both of the existing work benches and a storage shelf are attached to the bare studs. Those have to go, and everything else just hanging on the walls has to go someplace else.

I think I need a shed.

My shop is a 18x18' metal carport type building with side walls and a front wall with a 8x8' garage door and a steel walk in door. It's on a slab and fronts on my old 12x20 wooden storage building. For insulation I went to Home depot. They have 4x8' sheets of 2" closed cell foam. Cut to fit and glue in place. Instead of sheetrock, I used 3/8" plywood. It makes hanging stuff easy and something to screw into for electrical and air plumping.

A small infrared heater keeps it warm in the winter and a small a/c unit in the wall keeps it tolerable in the summer. I have two 4x8' tables, one for assembly and layout, and one for my table saw, router, and chop saw. Another small 4x4' table has my grinder and belt/rotary sander on it along with a small toolbox.

I have a rack on the front of the storage building for hanging garden tools and a half dozen 3x6 foot shelf units for storage.

I was using a shopvac for dust collection but today I ran 2 1/2" PVC to a central vac for the same purpose.

Maybe you can take some of the ideas for your shop.

ETA: I changed out my 6' florescence light out for 4' LED lights. It is way better and far cheaper.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Instead of sheetrock, I used 3/8" plywood. It makes hanging stuff easy and something to screw into for electrical and air plumping.

Maybe you can take some of the ideas for your shop.

ETA: I changed out my 6' florescence light out for 4' LED lights. It is way better and far cheaper.

Good tip for the walls, will remember that one.

I'm getting prices for a slab for a 2.25 x 4.5 metre shed - have just bought a new property with an existing square shed just sitting on dirt, and enough stratco sheeting to double its size. It'll be a dedicated workshop, rather than a bench in a garage, which is what I've had for years. So far, saving big money by using salvage.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I think I need a shed.

If this would be a quick(ish) project, you might want to consider renting a storage cube, like a small sea container. They drop them off and they’re pretty secure. Of course, you wouldn’t have a man-shed when you’re finished.

 

[NotWise]

If this would be a quick(ish) project, you might want to consider renting a storage cube, like a small sea container. They drop them off and they’re pretty secure. Of course, you wouldn’t have a man-shed when you’re finished.

The shed wouldn't be a quicky. I want to move the gardening stuff out of the workshop/garage, so the shed would be permanent.

The lighting in the workshop has to change, but that will happen along with the rewiring and the new door.

Tex, your shop sounds a lot like my brother-in-law's. His is 20X20 on a slab and he mostly uses it for cabinetry. He built all the cabinetry in their house and he has a lean-to beside the shop that's filled with hardwood lumber.

The local Catholic chapel was damaged by a brush fire a few years ago, and he's replaced all of their old pews. Two of the old pews -- nearly black with age and with rustic hand carvings on the ends -- sit inside the entry to their house. He trades woodwork in the local ranching community for big jobs around the ranch or for things like slaughter and butchering.

 

[TxRad]

NW, as you know, I build mostly boats in mine but.... I also build picnic tables, outdoor benches and swings, even a few custom boat book cases. Nothing fancy, just solid and usually over built. And I nearly forgot, boat planters in several sizes and shapes. Plus fish habitat structures.

Okay, the midnight coffee is late.

Sorry about that but I got wrapped up in a writing project.

 

[Handley_Page]

I have a plan for my shop/garage.
I think I need a shed.

Everyone needs a shed !

Well, of course! At least one. Doesn't matter about the size.

Given the available space in the garden, of course.

If this would be a quick(ish) project, you might want to consider renting a storage cube, like a small sea container. They drop them off and they’re pretty secure. Of course, you wouldn’t have a man-shed when you’re finished.

Not a lot of good if it costs and arm & a leg to install it.
The costs of the crane were too much for me to use that option.

I see that there are widows and 'ordinary' doors available for these containers.

Meanwhile, I have a metal project box that needs cleaning up and painting.
I should have use my Self-etching primer'.

But it's time for my coffee.

 

[oggbashan]

My wife and I are currently looking for a smallish summer house, about seven feet or eight feet square. There is an online firm in Dudley, Midlands that has a good range - Total Sheds, but the delivery cost to me so far away is high.

HP should look at their range - on eBay as well as their own site.

My latest Brigit story features houses made from shipping containers because my local council is considering them to house rough sleepers. They can be cheap if you have a good site.

 

[ecorche]

Not a lot of good if it costs and arm & a leg to install it.
The costs of the crane were too much for me to use that option.

But it's time for my coffee.

In the states, a company called Pods delivers temporary storage modules, popular with DIY moving. A framework of robot legs wheels the module from the delivery truck (aka lorry) and deposits it in your driveway. The legs detach from the module and stow themselves back on the truck. (I was quite amazed by this feat of robotic wizardry until I spotted the guy operating the remote control. Sigh. Fascinating, regardless.) Once stuffed with all the material goods required by 21st century western civilization, the company transports them to your new residence, or holds them in some Tardis-like multidimensional time-space pocket until beckoned forth by the owner.

I would imagine they would also make fine temporary structures for equipment and materials storage. If equipped with lightening rods, mad scientists might conceivably use a Pods module to create some kind of Frankenstein's monster.

This is why you should never allow an SF author in the coffee house. I do make good coffee though.

 

[NotWise]

I would imagine they would also make fine temporary structures for equipment and materials storage. If equipped with lightening rods, mad scientists might conceivably use a Pods module to create some kind of Frankenstein's monster.

This is why you should never allow an SF author in the coffee house. I do make good coffee though.

There's a dining and entertainment facility not far from my office that was built entirely out of artfully stacked shipping containers. There's a brew pub and probably about eight food establishments around a central area that's good for small performances. It's like a food hall, but open air.

Those aren't PODS. They're the big steel shipping containers they stack on trains and cargo ships with utilities added and outdoor stairways connecting to cafes and dining areas on the second and third levels. Watching them build it was pretty cool, and eating there is fun, too.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

The ones I originally referred to are do seem to be shipping containers ('sea cans'), but about 10 feet long vice the normal 20 foot ones. I see them on a fair number of suburban construction or reno sites, presumably for tools or belongings.

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

Hubby has decided that dinner tonight will be roast beef and Yorkshire puddings; poor guy loves trad English food but it's hard to make down here, it takes so long, and there are so many other delicious alternatives, so today he tackled me to the floor, put me in a headlock, and demanded roast beef with red-wine gravy, baked Cauliflower Cheese, steamed broccoli, baby carrots, honeyed parsnips, and steamed Savoy Cabbage, all in a giant Yorkshire pudding trencher.

My friend brought me some fresh figs from a year-round grower in Provence, so we're having honeyed baked figs with salted caramel and toasted goat's cheese for dessert

 

[oggbashan]

Today is our 49th wedding anniversary. Normally we would go to a restaurant - but we can't. We could have a takeaway meal but we have a supermarket curry instead.

We have missed meals out for my wife's birthday, mine, our 48th, and 49th wedding anniversaries, the anniversary of my proposal...

When we can eat in a restaurant again, we'll be out several times a week to compensate.

On our wedding day evening, we were staying in a grotty 'holiday' flat and the cooker didn't work. Our first meal as a couple was Fish and Chips.

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

Today is our 49th wedding anniversary. Normally we would go to a restaurant - but we can't. We could have a takeaway meal but we have a supermarket curry instead.

We have missed meals out for my wife's birthday, mine, our 48th, and 49th wedding anniversaries, the anniversary of my proposal...

When we can eat in a restaurant again, we'll be out several times a week to compensate.

On our wedding day evening, we were staying in a grotty 'holiday' flat and the cooker didn't work. Our first meal as a couple was Fish and Chips.

But you still remember it clearly. Happy Anniversary Ogg

 

[ecorche]

My friend brought me some fresh figs from a year-round grower in Provence, so we're having honeyed baked figs with salted caramel and toasted goat's cheese for dessert

I've only seen dried figs in Colorado, they ripen so fast. Had to travel to Turkey to experience them fresh, right off the freaking tree. Worth the trip.