Stuff Wot I Got Done Post

[neadods]

Resolutions
Rather than post the entire Resolutions post, I'll just put the monthly part of the update here:
August
-- participated in SherlockNYC's scavenger hunt at the Natural History Museum NYC
-- set up and opened Little Free Library
-- moved, painted, refilled Grandpa's old medical records cabinet

Little Free Library
Until I sort through my favorite of the various book apps recced to me, I've decided to go with one I already had called "Checklists." It's actually meant for shopping, but it lets me enter the titles and a category, and I pop them in and out of "active" with a touch. (The categories are mass market, trade, audio, etc. There's also a category for "last chance" so I don't put out a book that isn't moving too often.)

Thanks to kefiraahava and The Book Thing (and one of M's co-workers), I have more than enough stock to completely change out the contents of the LFL every week for at least 5 weeks.

I screwed up the paper record keeping, but this last week, I know that these left:
- two tattoo-themed cozy mysteries. (The first one went the day after it went out, so I put out the sequel, which also left the next day.)
- Sleeping With Cats
- the Patti LuPone biography
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Nurse Nurse (the life of a British, male, student nurse)
- The Last Juror (I'm going to have to pay closer attention to the Grisham I put out so I'm not always offering the same book to the same fan)
- The Hunger Games
- The Friday Night Knitting Club
- Paradox Lost (I was surprised at how long it took the Doctor Who book to move)

There was also big turnover in audiobooks - The Intruders came back, but a few days later it left again, along with John Adams and Little Bee. They all went at once; the only audio left was one of the Big Finish Dark Shadows titles.

This long weekend, I've been catching up on various jobs. One was to turn this...


...into this:


Not happy with the patchy paint on the side, but as it is turning into my mini-office and it's metal, I can always stick magnets over the patches.

I also framed the art Team Purple Shirt won at the scavenger hunt...


... and put a pocket on the back (decorated with stickers from the clue package) to hold the email instructions, ticket, museum floor plan, and clue book.


It's hanging over the new cabinet. The skull eraser Becky gave everyone is balanced on top of the frame, so that it's with everything else from that day but it's well out of kitten range.

... I hope!

Comments

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

There's no such thing as "out of kitten range". The little buggers can shapeshift, levitate, and become liquid at will.

And I'm sure we wouldn't have them any other way, bless their hearts. (always said with a fixed smile)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Become liquid? Is there ever a cat that can't conform to the shape of its container?

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dna0oWu_EU

[fyrdrakken]

I'm absolutely charmed by how you managed to neatly store all the souvenirs for the scavenger hunt together in a tidy display!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty pleased with that. All of the memories of a scrapbook, a quarter of the work!

[fyrdrakken]

There is, hanging on my bedroom wall, an 8x11 frame containing a 4x6 photo of me sitting next to Anthony Stewart Head on a couch in Las Vegas, and his autograph on my RHPS convention pass (that he was appearing at, and that was the reason I ran into him passing through the hotel in the first place). The paired souvenirs in the same display.