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Hope your day is an easy one!

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I think I'm going to work on that keyboard shelf I started making for my brother when he was in town. I thought I'd done what I needed to do, but after I was there last time I discovered that the old/broken one had some holes drilled into the bottom to allow for screw-in nuts to be set at specific points and tightened with an allen wrench for the screws that will tighten it to the brackets for the pull out system.

I knew I wouldn't be going back to see him the next few times my dad went down, but if I can get it done in the next day or two he might be able to come by to pick it up before he goes next week.

I'd lost the bag that had a few of those nuts that had fallen out when the original shelf broke as well as all of the necessary screws, but after looking all over today I finally found it.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Back in and it is dry and sunny now. Was cloudy this morning.

Call from a friend saying she's going on Friday for knee surgery.

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Back in and it is dry and sunny now. Was cloudy this morning.

Call from a friend saying she's going on Friday for knee surgery.

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Seems like people are seeing their doctors again, and finally having their covid- delayed surgery.

Tell your friend best of luck from me!

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I think I'm going to work on that keyboard shelf I started making for my brother when he was in town. I thought I'd done what I needed to do, but after I was there last time I discovered that the old/broken one had some holes drilled into the bottom to allow for screw-in nuts to be set at specific points and tightened with an allen wrench for the screws that will tighten it to the brackets for the pull out system.

I knew I wouldn't be going back to see him the next few times my dad went down, but if I can get it done in the next day or two he might be able to come by to pick it up before he goes next week.

I'd lost the bag that had a few of those nuts that had fallen out when the original shelf broke as well as all of the necessary screws, but after looking all over today I finally found it.

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WOO HOO! Nothing like finding stuff you'd thought was lost!

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I missed that you'd started Deadwood, Brenda.

How you liking it so far?


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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Got the path report today:

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
All good. Further treatment "just in
N case". Need to heal from surgery. But my surgeon and her assistant were ecstatic when they called.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
All good. Further treatment "just in
N case". Need to heal from surgery. But my surgeon and her assistant were ecstatic when they called.

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I missed that you'd started Deadwood, Brenda.

How you liking it so far?

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I'm not too sure about it. And my watching it is kind of stalled. Have to look it up on YouTube now.

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I missed that you'd started Deadwood, Brenda.

How you liking it so far?

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I'm not too sure about it. And my watching it is kind of stalled. Have to look it up on YouTube now.

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How far into it did you get?

I don't know if you'd be able to watch that on YT or not.

Does your library just not carry the rest of the show, or somebody else rented it out?

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Found a new detective series on Britbox called "Shetland" which I think you would like, but it's relativey new so only the first two seasons might be available free. There are six all together. The main characcter (Jimmy Perez) is not your typical quirky cerebral, cynical Sherlock Holmesian detective. He's a reflective, stable, responsible guy whose major strength IMHO is an empathic grasp of people. Worth looking up.

I had to look up where the Shetland Islands are. Gawd, they're in the middle of nowhere!

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SIGNYM:
Found a new detective series on Britbox called "Shetland" which I think you would like, but it's relativey new so only the first two seasons might be available free. There are six all together. The main characcter (Jimmy Perez) is not your typical quirky cerebral, cynical Sherlock Holmesian detective. He's a reflective, stable, responsible guy whose major strength IMHO is an empathic grasp of people. Worth looking up.

I had to look up where the Shetland Islands are. Gawd, they're in the middle of nowhere!


BRENDA: My library has "Shetland" and I got season 1 out today SIG. Will let you know what I think of it.

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SIGNYM:
Found a new detective series on Britbox called "Shetland" which I think you would like, but it's relativey new so only the first two seasons might be available free. There are six all together. The main characcter (Jimmy Perez) is not your typical quirky cerebral, cynical Sherlock Holmesian detective. He's a reflective, stable, responsible guy whose major strength IMHO is an empathic grasp of people. Worth looking up.

I had to look up where the Shetland Islands are. Gawd, they're in the middle of nowhere!


BRENDA: My library has "Shetland" and I got season 1 out today SIG. Will let you know what I think of it.

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Oh, cool! I'm very interested in how you react! I found the main character to be non-stereotypical, which was interesting to me.

FWIW, the remaining seasons are not based on any books by Ann Cleeves, they're "based on the characters created by Ann Cleeves". So I already detect "character drift" ... but that's another story (literally).

Also, if there is any place with more depressing weather and landscape than Shetland, I don't know what! (Except maybe Finland, where you have all the blessings of bad weather plus several months of near-total darkness. A Finn who used to work for me and who went back home sent me a picture of Christmas in Finland: it looked wet, cold, and DARK.)

I looked Shetland weather up, of course. It's never really gets below freezing in the winter, but never gets much above 50F in the summer. (My guess is bc the Gulf Stream circulates that far north). It gets a LOT of rain, has a lot of cloudy days, is relatively treeless (prolly bc of sheep grazing) and is subject to violent Atlantic windstorms in fall and winter (essentially like cold-weather hurricanes).

When there is an interior scene, look at the windows and the depth of the walls: the walls are very thick, the buildings are sturdy, and the windows are small.

BTW I wondered why Ireland is also treeless. It's not cold or dry, you would think it would support a luxuriant temperate rainforest. Turns out it USED to be forested with (mostly) low-growing trees/shrubs: willow, wild cherry, rose etc. before sheep and agriculture. Apparently there is an effort to replant some native species. Maybe, bybeing sheltered from the wind, a few oaks and beech and hornbeam will take root too.

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Well, using you as an example, I don't think I can do a weekly day of rest, but I've decided to take a nap or at least a rest every day between 3-4PM, and see how that goes

That way I think my efforts will be more consistent, I won't wear myself out one day and have to take the next day, or a 3-hiur nap, to recover!

Thanks for your good example!



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So far, that 1 hour rest seems to be helping

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Got your taxes done. That's always a relief.

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