[sdiy] A new space plan??

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow Tim 'n' all.

At 11:36 AM 8/8/03 -0700, Tim Ressel wrote:
>Thanks to everybody who responded. The validation is
>much apreciated.

Don't worry Tim. You're normal. Well as normal as it gets round here. Some 
would call us "elitist, nerdy schmucks" but do we care? Are we going to 
change our ways? Do we long for wine women and song? Hell no!

Not unless the wine is to wash down an E, the women are getting giggy with 
a synth and song is some techno-esk beat perhaps.

I really like the whiteboard idea. I've always craved a whiteboard. 
Unfortunately there's no-where left in here I could put one. Well not if I 
wanted access to it. Every wall, every space, every flat surface has 
something attached to it. So I've had to suffer and use a computer instead. 
What a shame.

I'm currently at the beginnings of attempting to replace my studio/workshop 
floor. The current one is concrete and seems to have a spot of concrete 
cancer or something. It's crumbling under the chairs. Mind you that floor 
is probably 60 years old. So I bought this floating flooring stuff. These 
clip-together wood panel things made in Germany. You lay 'em down on top of 
a kind of foamy sheet stuff. Thus the term "floating floor." This allows 
them to expand and contract. They're ideal for running chairs over so they 
should be good for dropping globs of solder on.

But they're all wood grain of various colours and textures. I was really 
hoping for something a bit more sci-fi esk. Perhaps tile-board would have 
been better? I don't know how hard or durable it is. Or how brittle. This 
floating floor stuff is good (and about all I could afford) but it doesn't 
have that "solaris" feel to it. (The original Russian version of the film I 
mean.)

But it's hard and durable and ideally suited for workshop floors. I'm a bit 
concerned about acoustic reflections but then again, this place is so 
stacked with junk that all the odd angles work better than proper acoustic 
foam.

Australia is a shed culture. Most males have a shed. If not then they 
aspire to one. Many females now have their own sheds too. "His and her" 
sheds in the back yard are not uncommon. It is said of sheds. "There are 
two kinds of sheds. Those which are cluttered and messy. And those which 
are spotless in which nothing ever happens." Or as someone one jibed.

"Cluttered shed. Cluttered Mind."

Conversely. "Empty shed......"

NOTE: I have 3 sheds and a closed in carport area. Known as "Plant 1" thru 
"Plant 4" And still hardly any space to work in. :(

Be absolutely Icebox.

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