Moderately productive day!
Jul. 23rd, 2011 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeyAnd about time too, I've let the place turn into a disaster zone, what with six months of running around doing the court thing. And then using the court thing as an excuse to leave SCA crap staged all over said living room.
Straightened up the living room - sheets and quilt for the futon sofa are currently whirling through the laundry. Just can't face trying to manhandle an upright vacuum downstairs left handed. I really AM trying not to screw up my elbow and let the thing heal a bit.
Straightened up the kitchen and scrubbed down the floor. I need to attack the stove next, but the kitchen is in good shape.
Went out midday to break things up: quick stop at Silk Road to look at silk. Did not see any red dupioni I liked, which is fine as the project I'm contemplating does not have to get done right away anyhow. (They used to have such a nice selection, but the last two visits make me think they're not restocking their special occasion fabrics upstairs. It's a shame because their prices were excellent. Oh well, if I have to, I can get white from Dharma and dye it....)
From there I went to Hell in Emeryville. Hell is Big, Blue, Swedish, infested with Crazed Saturday People. However, Hell did have extra shelves for my upstairs units at $7.50 a pop, so I picked up two, as well as a package of wooden hangers. (I never seem to have enough hangers...)
Onward to Barnes & Noble, which had Criterion Collection DVDs 50% off (plus another 10% off that for B&N members). At that price I jumped on Postwar Kurosawa, the Yojimbo/Sanjuro set, and Ikiru. I didn't buy any silk, after all.
Stopped at Target for toothpaste and some new leggings - I noticed my favorites are wearing into holes. Seems like I'm hard on favorite clothes. Yet another long sleeved top has worn through the left elbow. (I think it's how I sit at my desk at work....) Anyway, despite an old article in the Chronicle when the place opened a couple months ago, it looked like any other Target I've ever been in and now that the novelty has worn off a little bit, it was not nearly the madhouse I expected. A stock clerk offered to direct me when he spotted me gazing around trying to get the lie of the land, I found what I wanted without too much trouble, navigated the feed to the checkout with the aid of a Target checkout traffic control person (I can see this system being useful at Christmas or on evenings where people are hitting the store in droves on their way home from work). The cashier was equally friendly and courteous. I cannot comment upon the Wall of Cheese as I didn't go for groceries.
Came home, had some lunch, tore apart the shelving unit behind my desk that holds my Japanese library, installed one of the new shelves and rearranged the contents according to height - tall art books on the bottom, mid sized books next, small ones on the top, and anything that didn't fit elsewhere on their sides on the second shelf. Everything fit, The other shelf can go in the unit across the garret, giving me plenty of room for my other other books. It may be time to weed the paperbacks again....
Straightened up the living room - sheets and quilt for the futon sofa are currently whirling through the laundry. Just can't face trying to manhandle an upright vacuum downstairs left handed. I really AM trying not to screw up my elbow and let the thing heal a bit.
Straightened up the kitchen and scrubbed down the floor. I need to attack the stove next, but the kitchen is in good shape.
Went out midday to break things up: quick stop at Silk Road to look at silk. Did not see any red dupioni I liked, which is fine as the project I'm contemplating does not have to get done right away anyhow. (They used to have such a nice selection, but the last two visits make me think they're not restocking their special occasion fabrics upstairs. It's a shame because their prices were excellent. Oh well, if I have to, I can get white from Dharma and dye it....)
From there I went to Hell in Emeryville. Hell is Big, Blue, Swedish, infested with Crazed Saturday People. However, Hell did have extra shelves for my upstairs units at $7.50 a pop, so I picked up two, as well as a package of wooden hangers. (I never seem to have enough hangers...)
Onward to Barnes & Noble, which had Criterion Collection DVDs 50% off (plus another 10% off that for B&N members). At that price I jumped on Postwar Kurosawa, the Yojimbo/Sanjuro set, and Ikiru. I didn't buy any silk, after all.
Stopped at Target for toothpaste and some new leggings - I noticed my favorites are wearing into holes. Seems like I'm hard on favorite clothes. Yet another long sleeved top has worn through the left elbow. (I think it's how I sit at my desk at work....) Anyway, despite an old article in the Chronicle when the place opened a couple months ago, it looked like any other Target I've ever been in and now that the novelty has worn off a little bit, it was not nearly the madhouse I expected. A stock clerk offered to direct me when he spotted me gazing around trying to get the lie of the land, I found what I wanted without too much trouble, navigated the feed to the checkout with the aid of a Target checkout traffic control person (I can see this system being useful at Christmas or on evenings where people are hitting the store in droves on their way home from work). The cashier was equally friendly and courteous. I cannot comment upon the Wall of Cheese as I didn't go for groceries.
Came home, had some lunch, tore apart the shelving unit behind my desk that holds my Japanese library, installed one of the new shelves and rearranged the contents according to height - tall art books on the bottom, mid sized books next, small ones on the top, and anything that didn't fit elsewhere on their sides on the second shelf. Everything fit, The other shelf can go in the unit across the garret, giving me plenty of room for my other other books. It may be time to weed the paperbacks again....
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Date: 2011-07-24 11:59 pm (UTC)Ikiru is one of the most bittersweet movies I've ever seen. The ending shot haunts me. Is that really what life is? I wonder.
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Date: 2011-07-25 05:39 am (UTC)