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Jan. 22nd, 2017 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pensnestLance was out marching yesterday. *Good* boy.
There are some awesome signs here. I think my favourite may be TINKLE TINKLE LITTLE CZAR.
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An aside: the most unexpectedly kind comments on the internet? The thread starts with itty little bits of video of Richard Spencer (white nationalist) being punched in the head, which gets a generally enthusiastic reception, but it is the comment by NotATacoTruck that garners some quite beautiful responses. Note: much talk of suicide.
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I did not march, alas. I did seriously contemplate getting myself to London, but had not realised there would be international marches in time to make proper arrangements. Instead, I spent most of yesterday... working on the installation of a new shower tray to improve FIL's bathroom experience. It was quite a challenge.
Imagine, if you will, a q-shaped room (in a non-serifed font). The leg of the q is about 130cm in length and 74cm wide—the shower unit is at the bottom end. Into this space, we must fit a 120x70cm shower tray that weighs 32Kg. And just to complicate things even further, there is a built-in sink unit at the top of the q, opposite the shower entrance, with perhaps 60cm clearance between the two.
We pondered ropes and pulleys. We pondered hiring some kind of fork lift machine (but it wouldn't fit through the front door, or go round the bathroom corners, plus a bearing capacity of a metric tonne seemed kinda… overkill). We pondered a suction device (but where to stand? and how much did Beast really want to injure his back?). In the end we consulted Bun's ingenious housemate, who came up with a solution involving putting the tray on planks, and this, we found good.
It is of course fortunate that my Beast is built like a frog* and can fit his shoulders between his knees when he crouches**. We'd align the planks, carry the tray into place with him going into the shower area, put the tray on the planks; he'd step on the plank area and come out of the shower stall, we'd push the tray against the wall, we'd remove one of the planks (Beast fortunately has strong hands), thus lowering the tray onto whatever feet we had attached to it. Spirit level. Reinsert plank, pull tray towards us, Beast steps to other end, we lift tray off and adjust legs. Repeat about a thousand*** times.
Reader, we have managed it. Well, there's more work to be done—concrete, plumbing, another minor adjustment of legs—before actually installing the thing, but it will be done.
* a frog with really long arms. Actually, a frog with really long arms and really long legs. Er. Or a frog with a really short body?
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*** possibly a slight exaggeration
There are some awesome signs here. I think my favourite may be TINKLE TINKLE LITTLE CZAR.
*
An aside: the most unexpectedly kind comments on the internet? The thread starts with itty little bits of video of Richard Spencer (white nationalist) being punched in the head, which gets a generally enthusiastic reception, but it is the comment by NotATacoTruck that garners some quite beautiful responses. Note: much talk of suicide.
*
I did not march, alas. I did seriously contemplate getting myself to London, but had not realised there would be international marches in time to make proper arrangements. Instead, I spent most of yesterday... working on the installation of a new shower tray to improve FIL's bathroom experience. It was quite a challenge.
Imagine, if you will, a q-shaped room (in a non-serifed font). The leg of the q is about 130cm in length and 74cm wide—the shower unit is at the bottom end. Into this space, we must fit a 120x70cm shower tray that weighs 32Kg. And just to complicate things even further, there is a built-in sink unit at the top of the q, opposite the shower entrance, with perhaps 60cm clearance between the two.
We pondered ropes and pulleys. We pondered hiring some kind of fork lift machine (but it wouldn't fit through the front door, or go round the bathroom corners, plus a bearing capacity of a metric tonne seemed kinda… overkill). We pondered a suction device (but where to stand? and how much did Beast really want to injure his back?). In the end we consulted Bun's ingenious housemate, who came up with a solution involving putting the tray on planks, and this, we found good.
It is of course fortunate that my Beast is built like a frog* and can fit his shoulders between his knees when he crouches**. We'd align the planks, carry the tray into place with him going into the shower area, put the tray on the planks; he'd step on the plank area and come out of the shower stall, we'd push the tray against the wall, we'd remove one of the planks (Beast fortunately has strong hands), thus lowering the tray onto whatever feet we had attached to it. Spirit level. Reinsert plank, pull tray towards us, Beast steps to other end, we lift tray off and adjust legs. Repeat about a thousand*** times.
Reader, we have managed it. Well, there's more work to be done—concrete, plumbing, another minor adjustment of legs—before actually installing the thing, but it will be done.
* a frog with really long arms. Actually, a frog with really long arms and really long legs. Er. Or a frog with a really short body?
**
*** possibly a slight exaggeration
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Date: 2017-01-27 05:46 pm (UTC)