Busyness As Usual

It means I'll nibble you lightly.

I ended up getting a decent wooden backgammon/chess/checkers set and tossing the old gross case. Kept the nice pieces and the dice from the old set though. Which was good because the new set only had one die. (It should use four plus a 'doubling cube'.)

I ended up giving away the old rug I had down because I just couldn't get it clean enough to satisfy myself. I scrubbed it twice after knocking the dust and dirt off. That got rid of the funky smell but nothing would take out what appears to be rust spots. The person who took it wanted it to put in their kitchen and I said go for it. XD

So I put down a brand new one that is an animal alphabet rug. The pile on it is much easier for my little vacuum cleaner to get dirt off of.

I've also been on a kick of getting Lego and off-brand building block kits. I found four sets marked down on clearance at the store. Regular $40 set for $20, two classic brick sets for $12 (Normally $20) and a special three-pack set for $10. I also found some Max bricks that build trucks with dinosaurs! They were pretty cheaply priced. The large set was $15 and the smaller one was only $6.

Oh! And I also found one of those huge rubber dinosaurs that is soft on markdown. She's a velociraptor I've been calling Barbaraaah.

Mainly with work and some personal health related stuff I've been too busy to post here. But I have gotten some more stuff sorted from the cabin. All of the boxes and bags have been gone through. I have an entire box of things for yard sale/donation fodder.

I finally worked up the courage to look over the rodent damaged plushies I found in a box a while ago and I've determined that they're all fixable. I started sewing holes closed Friday after I found a two antique tins of thread, needles, buttons and various other random things.

I have another three to stitch up and then they'll go in the wash with enzyme buster to see if I can remove the smell. I'm holding out hope that if it will remove cat urine smells it will remove rodent smells. Cat pee is pretty potent stuff.

I have also determined that my selection of shoebox sized plastic bins will fit underneath the old radio/tv cabinet I have from my grandmother's house. So there's a whole lot of storage out of the way. I also figured out that my little Lego sets will pretty much sit in there without taking them apart too much so when I want to play around with them I can.

If you know me, you'll know I've been spending a lot of time lately going through boxes of old belongings. Some of them actually aren't mine at all, but have been left here by various people who stayed with us over the years.

Yesterday I pulled a bunch of records out of a tote and put them on a shelf so I could get the tote out of the way. I don't remember purchasing these records, but there were a lot of decent ones. Most would have probably turned their noses up because many of the sleeves were damaged, but the records inside, the bit I care about because that's where the music is, were pristine. So onto the shelf with them. I'll have to take my player down and hook it up later on.

Also found a notebook where I had written down the username/password for one of the very first website 'forums' I ever joined. It made me stop and look for a hot minute and then wonder if they were still usable. It was one of those old BB-type forums where each topic added would bump the one on the bottom of the page off. Back when "bump" wasn't quite as frowned upon because you might be saving months of conversation.

Weirdest thing I found was the headlight lens to an antique car. Just a huge convex chunk of glass. Apparently it was found on a friend of the family's farm when putting up new fence posts. I had to hide it underneath a bunch of stuff because that thing would probably burn my little house down if the sun got into it! I don't know what kind of car it's from and it'll probably be hard to figure out unless someone who is knowledgeable about antique cars looks at it. It's just plain and smooth.