i was intending on cleaning up the first two rooms and organizing in the front before i settled in for the shower but that no longer makes sense given the extended detour waterproofing the front, which i'm confident is mostly done. i should do the work with the electric saw next, so i can vacuum before i put the carpet down. i did design it so that there's a sawdust collection area, but it just doesn't make sense to put the carpet in first. i have several shelves to cut in the kitchen and two very big ones to cut in the bedroom. i'm not totally confident that the ones in the bedroom are going to hold. i may need to use some kind of poles. greek columns. should i make them dorian or ionian? send me an email.
i also have a lot of the structural finishing touches in the kitchen either in place or on order. i wanted to set up magnetic hooks for hanging pots and pans on the part of the ceiling that comes down and opens up in a vertical face but the magnetic knife holders i bought are too weak. that makes sense, in hindsight. you need to be able to remove the knife from the magnetic strip without using a crane. don't visualize that. don't visualize a young arnold coming in and helping you pull the knife off. or jackie chan kicking the knife off and catching it. you have better things to do with your brain than this.
one solution would be to glue pieces of steel to the wall instead and i will probably end up doing that just not there. it might make more sense to use the hooks to guide ethernet or usb cables around the apartment. i will find something to do with these things, i always do.
but i just bought some adhesive pegs instead. they're rated for 44 kg; i need around 5 each, max. i also bought some rotating hangers for spatulas, which will conserve some space.
i can't remember if i posted about amazon haul, which is the amazon service where you but items cheap from asia, as though the less cheap items weren't made in asia (of course they were). amazon is just letting you cut out the middle man, who is the most egregious actor. the slave is the victim, and the chinese capitalist is a monster, but the american go between that marks it up is even worse. it's not like i have a choice to buy these things from domestic manufacturers anymore; as it is, it's the american intermediate i want to avoid paying. i wish i could pay the guy that made the thing a fair wage, instead.
so, i don't have an ethical issue with this or, at least, i don't have an ethical issue that has a solution. i'm going to buy items made in china, anyways. the question is whether i can get around the middle man or not, and i would pick avoiding the middleman as more ethical and not less ethical.
what i have to say about these cheap items, which are mostly small items you could make yourself with a 3d printer, if you could find one worth buying for less than $10,000, is that you get what you pay for, sometimes. sometimes you get a good deal, and i've got a few. sometimes you get something that is $1.50 for a reason.
for example, i bought a towel holder for like $2.00 or something. it's two plastic hooks and a plastic bar that constantly fell out....until i glued it together. now it's great.
i bought a universal jar opener that worked on the jalapeno jars, which are small, but flat out broke on the much larger pickle jar. it's easy to put back together. i'm not sure i can glue it without damaging the cogs.
however, i posted about the shelves i had to glue together, which i bought on sale at normal amazon. i've bought other items for sale on normal amazon at bafflingly low prices. on some of the haul items - the scissors for example - have been good products for super cheap. it's probably worth guessing on few sketchy things if you get a large order and are willing and capable when it comes to fixing things.
so right now i'm waiting for the floor to dry. i'm going to go in with some paint, and then take some pictures of the laundry and washroom for the coffee table book, because i didn't do that. then i'm going to cut some shelves for the kitchen and hope the concrete is dry by the time i'm done. if it is, i could conceivably get the insulation in and the cardboard ceiling u by the end of the day, which is waiting for n insulation layer. and then i should be able to move the remaining tables and potentially the rainbow carpet into the garage, which will let me close the window and install the heater.
i'm going to aim for 15 degrees in there. it's on the other side of a properly insulated door but it's sealed and partially insulated. i think i can do that so long as it doesn't get to -30 overnight, in which case it might dip a little.
i have lights and a stereo system to install in there as well.
the last thing to set up in the garage will be the bike rack, after i get the couch out, and i'm not sure which side i want it on yet. i'll decide after i get the carpet in.
once the tables are out of the front entrance, i can clean the floors in there and get the remaining tables and shelves set up, get the shape of the front entrance finalized and start to get the studio set up.
the kitchen won't be done for a while so room 3 has an eta of early spring at this point. the reason is that i have some extra appliances coming, maybe. i am probably not going to get a dishwasher, but i could get a cappucino maker. i won't be able to do that until get my $4000 transferred to the rdsp.
so i am making progress and i'm still aiming towards getting in the shower and then shifting to typing but the list of things to do before i shift direction has gotten a little longer. when the weather does shift, i will be shifting to the bedroom and the studio. that's predictable, for me. i don't like the cold weather, so i'm hoping i can maintain a moderate temperature in the garage and don't have to actually go outside much.
it is possible that i could start buying items for the garage. i probably don't need a fridge out there. but you get the point.