Quite often my Thanksgiving holiday weekend (and right now I give thanks that I've always had the good fortune to enjoy these, which unfortunately my friend doesn't anymore, she worked two unscheduled double shifts during this 4 day period) hasn't been very productive, except for adding to my middle line. But this Thanksgiving weekend was very productive, as I measure it, I got lots of things done and crucially, these were finishing-things, finally-getting-around-to-things, as well as exactly the things I had hoped and planned (that is, I thought of them a few times) to do.
First and most important, I got the new Queen size bed for the King's room completely put together, and even slept on for the first times (Saturday and Sunday nights). When the weekend started, I had barely unpacked the last two boxes of mattress foams, and still needed to carve out the questionable spots with an exacto knife, and attempt to vacuum out the larger spot. I was beginning to wonder when, as in what week, I'd finally get the new bed together. I did the spot carving and vacuuming, and even put the mattress completely together twice. The first time under the incorrect assumption that the base layer's of the king's side were unexpectedly soft, too soft it seemed by a finger test, to be the kind of "firm" mattress I wanted. So I put the firmest D95 (box labeled as XX Firm, not the X Firm I had ordered) in the middle, hoping it would firm things up a bit. It did firm things up a bit, and then it was immediately clear the moment I laid on it that it was way too firm. Well I paused then and decided to put off the final assembly, possibly until Monday, I got right back to it that evening and reassembled the mattress in the "correct" order, with the firmest layer on the bottom, and decreasing firmness up from there. The result has been a mattress that initially seemed like it was too firm, but working especially great in the tv-watching mode, which is the way I have subsequently decided to keep my mattress all the time, as I sleep nicely that way as well.
I also got the new DVD cabinet secured to the wall. I certainly intended to get that done before sleeping in the bed, and amazingly enough, I did, though I later figured it was stable enough without the wall brackets so long as there were no DVD's in the upper half. I skipped the wall anchors provided by the cabinet manufacturer and used 2 1/2 inch screws, which I carefully screwed right into the wall studs. Because my cabinet is several inches from the wall the included bracket wasn't really long enough, so I attach the much longer screw I used about 1 inch from the actual wall. To keep the rack from moving backwards, I wrapped electrical tape around the screws. This sounds hokey but is remarkably effective (I can't see how it could possibly fail) and it allows the cabinet to be slightly decoupled from the wall so that wall vibrations (not uncommon from music played by very effective speakers at 46 inch tall subwoofer) don't transfer to the cabinet. I also kept the screws sticking out just a tiny bit (1/8 inch or so) of the bracket, and twisted a piece of electrical tape into that gap as well, so providing some acoustic isolation on both sides. As a result, I have not noticed any vibrations in the cabinet at all, even when playing very loud bass music.
Along with securing the cabinet to the wall, I also covered up all the visible grooves (which shouldn't have been visible) in the cabinet panel, which had been provided folded twice over. Those grooves had been filled with tiny bits of styrofoam which had broken during shipping. I had been unable to vacuum or otherwise remove all of the styrofoam debris from the groves still visible when the pieces were unfolded. So I had planned to use electrical tape to cover the grooves up, but hesitated because it sounded like it would look tacky. Actually, once I started covering up the grooves with electrical tape, I actually thought it looked nicer. The black shiny tape actually gave the cabinet a more luxurious custom look, where previously the slightly scruffy looking grooves were looking very tacky. Anyway, many of the grooves would have been covered up by the shelves anyway, and ultimately by the stored items (dvd's, cd's, sacd's, dvd-audio's, vhs tapes, and even beta tapes). And just so, the electrical tape is covered up as well, which is fine. But none of that styrofoam dust will be entering the airstream.
And I also got all the shelves installed in the cabinet as well, which was no small feat considering the number of shelves. And then, I moved all my dvd's and other items from the two previous racks into the new cabinet. I could probably move another rack's worth of items into the cabinet now as there is so much room left over. I put one of the now unneeded racks with a FREE sign on the sidewalk at 5pm on Sunday night (worried that it wasn't the best time to do that) and it disappeared in 2 hours. I put the other rack into Lyndhurst. Finally, the King's Room was getting cleared up again (the racks had been hogging all the extra space).
And I installed the new mower blade in the mower, and tested it out (but not much testing...).
And, I got the new iRobot Scooba 390 charged up and had it clean all three new vinyl plank floors (Queen's, King's, and hallway). After doing the King's room, and the first pass on the Queen's (because it stopped in a kind of non-standard way, I figured it had not actually completed), it needed a 3 hour recharge. After the recharge, I ran it a second time in the Queen's room (it still stopped with blinking power light rather than empty tank symbol) and then ran it once in the hallway. I could have run it a second time in the hallway, but I figured not charged enough, so I cleaned it up and set it back to recharging in the King's room on it's pad. Though another pass on the hallway would be nice, all 3 floors are much much cleaner than they were before, which I can feel with my bare feet.
So all that, and I also had a nice thanksgiving dinner with friends on Thanksgiving Day, and had a very nice meeting with my friend on Saturday night (she tested out the new bed), and I would have had very nice meetings with my friend on Friday and Sunday nights as well, and I had been ready for that, but she got assigned those unplanned second shifts.
First and most important, I got the new Queen size bed for the King's room completely put together, and even slept on for the first times (Saturday and Sunday nights). When the weekend started, I had barely unpacked the last two boxes of mattress foams, and still needed to carve out the questionable spots with an exacto knife, and attempt to vacuum out the larger spot. I was beginning to wonder when, as in what week, I'd finally get the new bed together. I did the spot carving and vacuuming, and even put the mattress completely together twice. The first time under the incorrect assumption that the base layer's of the king's side were unexpectedly soft, too soft it seemed by a finger test, to be the kind of "firm" mattress I wanted. So I put the firmest D95 (box labeled as XX Firm, not the X Firm I had ordered) in the middle, hoping it would firm things up a bit. It did firm things up a bit, and then it was immediately clear the moment I laid on it that it was way too firm. Well I paused then and decided to put off the final assembly, possibly until Monday, I got right back to it that evening and reassembled the mattress in the "correct" order, with the firmest layer on the bottom, and decreasing firmness up from there. The result has been a mattress that initially seemed like it was too firm, but working especially great in the tv-watching mode, which is the way I have subsequently decided to keep my mattress all the time, as I sleep nicely that way as well.
I also got the new DVD cabinet secured to the wall. I certainly intended to get that done before sleeping in the bed, and amazingly enough, I did, though I later figured it was stable enough without the wall brackets so long as there were no DVD's in the upper half. I skipped the wall anchors provided by the cabinet manufacturer and used 2 1/2 inch screws, which I carefully screwed right into the wall studs. Because my cabinet is several inches from the wall the included bracket wasn't really long enough, so I attach the much longer screw I used about 1 inch from the actual wall. To keep the rack from moving backwards, I wrapped electrical tape around the screws. This sounds hokey but is remarkably effective (I can't see how it could possibly fail) and it allows the cabinet to be slightly decoupled from the wall so that wall vibrations (not uncommon from music played by very effective speakers at 46 inch tall subwoofer) don't transfer to the cabinet. I also kept the screws sticking out just a tiny bit (1/8 inch or so) of the bracket, and twisted a piece of electrical tape into that gap as well, so providing some acoustic isolation on both sides. As a result, I have not noticed any vibrations in the cabinet at all, even when playing very loud bass music.
Along with securing the cabinet to the wall, I also covered up all the visible grooves (which shouldn't have been visible) in the cabinet panel, which had been provided folded twice over. Those grooves had been filled with tiny bits of styrofoam which had broken during shipping. I had been unable to vacuum or otherwise remove all of the styrofoam debris from the groves still visible when the pieces were unfolded. So I had planned to use electrical tape to cover the grooves up, but hesitated because it sounded like it would look tacky. Actually, once I started covering up the grooves with electrical tape, I actually thought it looked nicer. The black shiny tape actually gave the cabinet a more luxurious custom look, where previously the slightly scruffy looking grooves were looking very tacky. Anyway, many of the grooves would have been covered up by the shelves anyway, and ultimately by the stored items (dvd's, cd's, sacd's, dvd-audio's, vhs tapes, and even beta tapes). And just so, the electrical tape is covered up as well, which is fine. But none of that styrofoam dust will be entering the airstream.
And I also got all the shelves installed in the cabinet as well, which was no small feat considering the number of shelves. And then, I moved all my dvd's and other items from the two previous racks into the new cabinet. I could probably move another rack's worth of items into the cabinet now as there is so much room left over. I put one of the now unneeded racks with a FREE sign on the sidewalk at 5pm on Sunday night (worried that it wasn't the best time to do that) and it disappeared in 2 hours. I put the other rack into Lyndhurst. Finally, the King's Room was getting cleared up again (the racks had been hogging all the extra space).
And I installed the new mower blade in the mower, and tested it out (but not much testing...).
And, I got the new iRobot Scooba 390 charged up and had it clean all three new vinyl plank floors (Queen's, King's, and hallway). After doing the King's room, and the first pass on the Queen's (because it stopped in a kind of non-standard way, I figured it had not actually completed), it needed a 3 hour recharge. After the recharge, I ran it a second time in the Queen's room (it still stopped with blinking power light rather than empty tank symbol) and then ran it once in the hallway. I could have run it a second time in the hallway, but I figured not charged enough, so I cleaned it up and set it back to recharging in the King's room on it's pad. Though another pass on the hallway would be nice, all 3 floors are much much cleaner than they were before, which I can feel with my bare feet.
So all that, and I also had a nice thanksgiving dinner with friends on Thanksgiving Day, and had a very nice meeting with my friend on Saturday night (she tested out the new bed), and I would have had very nice meetings with my friend on Friday and Sunday nights as well, and I had been ready for that, but she got assigned those unplanned second shifts.
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