And in case anyone wants to play along at home with my Nerd Bingo….
I direct you thusly to the Shadowrun Timeline
We may be a few years behind the basic framework but Covid-19 = definitely feels like VITAS-1 in my mind. We’ve already got the Political corruption and megacorps. Now we just need to bring on the Metas and The Great Ghost Dance.
Welcome to the Sixth World Chummer!
Well, I think we can all agree that this year has not been anything close to what we expected it to be. I think we all could do with a mulligan on this one if the PTB allow it.
My work has been shut down for 2 weeks (minimum) as a non-essential service. Thankfully, I’m still getting paid for the time being, but there is a relevant fear that if this goes on for a prolonged period, I won’t be. :-/
Like everyone else on the planet, I did not expect to be hiding out in my basement while a pandemic spread across the globe. There is a surreal weirdness to this whole thing. Going to stores and seeing empty shelves because mob mentality made everyone buy all the fucking toilet paper and cans of baked beans. It is almost worse here, because the virus is still in the early stages (and hopefully doesn’t get a lot worse) so there is not a lot of impact outside of the enforced distancing. It’s hard to visualize and comprehend the images that we’re inundated with from various media sources when the people around you are all relatively healthy and yet the idiots abound and panic buy everything, leaving nothing for anyone else.
As I sit here typing this, my kids have now been out of school for a week. We won’t see an online curriculum for them for another two weeks and while we try to keep them to a routine, I’m already willing to hand them their phones and tell them to go play in virtual traffic. As much as I’m living the Introvert’s dream life, I realize how much other people get on my nerves. My family doubly so.
With all this time on my hands, you’d think that I’d be doing something productive like painting all my unpainted miniatures in my pile o’ shame, or organising and building the rest of the bookshelves / secret door in the game room. Nope. Rather than do that, I’m futzing about with Discord to try and get a Server set up so as my friends and I can continue to play our monthly Star Wars game remotely. Priorities right?
Well, there are worse things I could be doing I guess.
I guess I should go and check on the other prisoners in my cell block and see if they’re still alive.
Stay Safe out there folks.
Now with extra filling!
For those of you who aren’t stalking me full time, you may not have noticed the addition of the Gallery link up in the top right corner of the page.
I finally got around to adding a place to show off all my painted miniatures. Unfortunately time and tide have had their effect on my old stuff and I have fewer surviving old pieces than I’d initially hoped. There are some that are salvageable with a few touch ups so I will get them up as soon as I can.
In the meantime, what I have is an empty space to put pics of my new painted miniatures when I finish them :-/ . Guess I better get at it and actually finish a miniature soon.
Challenge Accepted!
It’s taken a bit longer than initially planned, mainly due to the scope of the project expanding, and there are still some finishing touches to work on but for all intents and purposes we are done with the games room renos!
This makes me more than a little bit happy. Especially when I get to use it this weekend!
The end is nigh! Well, not really. I’m pretty sure we’re not going to spin out of orbit anytime soon. But who knows what tomorrow will bring.
For me, it brings one more step closer to the end of my room renovations. The flooring was finished today and that means that we’re in the home stretch now. All that is really left is fixing a few noticeable paint mistakes, putting up the baseboards along with the window and door casings and cleaning up the mess. Once that’s all done then I have the wonderfully fun job of building some more IKEA shelves and then moving all my stuff back in.
Of course there’s also a couple of doors to hang and some transitions to install as well but those are relatively minor.
Overall, the project will fully be done by end of the month but my room will be ready for entertaining by the weekend!
I’m sure you’re all just as sick of these renovation posts as I am. Don’t worry, once I’m back ensconced in my batcave, I’ll get back to burbling on about more nerdy drivel.
If you’re looking for pics then you’ll have to wait till closer to the end. I wouldn’t want to spoil the surprise.
It is a dark time for the renovators. Laid low by sickness and malaise the renovations crawl to a snail’s pace and progress is slim.
Okay, that’s not entirely true but I had hoped to be further along than we are from the last update.
It’s been a month since I last posted in general and in that span both Tam and I caught a nasty flu bug that laid us on our asses for about two whole weeks. We muddled along though, and managed to make some progress despite the affliction.
Right now the subfloor is 100% in, drywall is also completed and first and second coats of mud are done. I just have to finish sanding the second coat and possibly do a third in a few places as they’re a bit sketchy quality wise.
Next up is paint which I’m not looking forward to and then flooring. Once that’s done then I’ll start moving stuff back in. I’m hoping to be done by the end of the month but it will really all depend on how distracted Tam gets with the hallway just outside of the room.
It became a project unto itself when she realised that the flooring would need to continue to the stairs and for that to happen we needed walls and such to base size off of. She’s been focused on the intricacies of that room while I’m stuck sanding.
Here is a panorama of the project somewhere between first and second coats of mud. It’s about 2 weeks old. I haven’t done one recently because a fine white dust from the sanding has settled over everything.
Once I get the dust cleaned up I’ll throw another pic up to better show our progress.
That’s all for now.
I know said I wasn’t going to blather on about my renovations but I couldn’t resist. Mainly because the previous owner pulled so many stupids that it’s mind boggling that the house is still standing.
So I’m going to try and resist posting a plethora of updates about my games room renovations. I’d rather just show the end result when that comes about and be able to contrast the before with the after. I feel it’ll have more impact.
As it stands now, we’re still in the demolition stage, though we’re pretty sure that we’ve torn everything up that we need to and barring a few small tweaks here and there we should start the actual construction right away… well, once we do another dump run or six. Hard to believe one room can generate so much garbage and construction waste.
Continue reading “Obligatory Renovation Update”A little over a year and a half ago, my wife and I started discussing what we were going to do with our basement. As it stood, it was a hodgepodge of tool rooms, odd shaped (and cramped) bedrooms and the world’s worst bathroom. It was in dire need of an overhaul.
We discussed options and talked about tearing down walls and expanding the master bedroom. We dickered back and forth on which way we would go and what we’d do. Ultimately her practicality won out.
We would renovate the old small bedroom that I was using as an office and the tool room and turn it into a new master bedroom. We’d revamp the bathroom and laundry room and we would turn the old master bedroom into a new office/nerd cave. It was really the only concession I got on the whole plan and I think I only got it because, I said I wanted a secret door in the bookshelf.
Last winter we tore into it and started on our master bedroom. We finished it sometime in March or April and it was glorious to have space to walk around in.
Summer came and we left the project alone to focus on the garage and other outdoor projects. However, we both knew the Stark motto was true: Winter is Coming.
Christmas was the usual hectic gong show but now that it’s over, we decided to get stuck in. As we had decided to leave the bathroom and laundry room for last due to the “fun”, finicky plumbing and tiling bits, the next job was my nerd cave
Eventually, it’s supposed to look something like this:
I’m hoping we’ll be done sometime in March or early April. I can’t wait! Mainly because then I don’t have to lug 40kgs of Star Wars books all over creation every time we game.
I’ll keep you posted!
Well, I didn’t expect that. Firefox crashed while I was updating a wordpress plugin… and when I came back to the site, it was deleted. I managed to eventually recover a backup from December 9th, but it was a last ditch effort on my part. I had very little hope of it succeeding.
For the two of you who even noticed, sorry for the interruption. For the rest of you. Carry on!
I was going to blog tonight about the latest renovations going on in the house and progress on the Nerd Cave but all my time was spent trying to fix the error.
I shall endeavour to update you tomorrow. Until then, good night!
