Handy means I have hands, right?

[rolanni]

So! Today my mad secretarial skillz were needed at the day-job. When I came home, I figured I'd get the chest-of-drawers-building started on the path of righteousness by. . .building the drawers.

I built a drawer.

It took three hours.

Three more drawers and the rest of the piece to go.

Betting pool, anyone?

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[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Obvious lack of a coon cat supervisor.

I built a drawer.

[bookmobiler.livejournal.com]

It took three hours.

That seems rather drawn out.

Are we betting in terms of hours, days or weeks?

And how do we factor in time off for good behavior?

In any case you and Steve are both banned from the betting.

And I'm not willing to trust the cats either.

Re: I built a drawer.

[bookmobiler.livejournal.com]

Off the days topic.

I meant to thank you for recommending, via your books read list, Thirteenth Child, Patricia C. Wrede.

I've just read it and thoroughly enjoyed it. Now I've got something else to wait for between Liaden books.

As I get older the most distressing part of a failing memory is the inability to forget I've forgotten something.

I'm about 95% sure you didn't recommend the following in one of your journal posts. In the hope that I'm correct and that the cats will appreciate it, I offer this link: http://twolumps.net/

I also ran across mention of this book That Yankee Cat: The Maine Coon by Marilis Hornidge on catwisker.net and managed to locate one at the local library. A very interesting book. Thanks again.

Re: I built a drawer.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I meant to thank you for recommending, via your books read list, Thirteenth Child, Patricia C. Wrede.

You are very welcome. *sighs* It is a splendid book.

Mrs. Hornidge's little book is charming also. We have at least one copy and possibly two.

I follow twolumps for a while; get bored, stop; then pick it back up again. Not sure why that's so, but thank you for reminding me about Benny and Snooch. Such nice boys...

[ligeia-bm.livejournal.com]

*shakes head* It's the cat helper. You didn't have him around, now did you? *shakes head some more*

[redpimpernel.livejournal.com]

Oh my. Three hours = 1 drawer?
If it's the handedness/orientation thing, perhaps looking in a mirror while you build?
Or putting parts for 1 drawer in a pile by itself and toss directions and just put it together how you think it should go?

Sends psychic building energy your way.

Then again, I can't write worth beans. So given the choice of you being able to craft your sentences the way you do, and being able to assemble a drawer in 20 minutes, I'm afraid I choose words for you. Do your coon cats know any real raccoons? They have pretty good hand skills...

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

If it's the handedness/orientation thing, perhaps looking in a mirror while you build?

Part of it is the orientation thing, but most of it is the fact that I don't have the required strength for the BFMI parts. Today, I got myself a work surface that allowed me to brace the piece being constructed against the wall, which helped things along immensely.

Or putting parts for 1 drawer in a pile by itself and toss directions and just put it together how you think it should go?

*Laughs Out Loud*

Oh, if only it worked that way. Honest, I can stand there and watch you unpack a box -- and be Completely Unable to get the things that I saw come out, back in. I have no idea how things go together. It's hard to explain. Happily, while frustrating, this superpower provides hours of amusement for my friends.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I find that things which come out of a place rarely fit back in. It may be a Law Of Nature or something.

'BFMI'? "B* F* Mission Impossible"? I know stores which sell that type of "self-assembly"[1] stuff (I can assemble myself quite well, its prepackaged unassembled objects with which I have problems!).

[1] Like the places which advertise "self storage". I'm certain they are breaking laws about descriptions, because one of the things you aren't allowed to store there is yourself!

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

BFMI = Brute Force and Massive Ignorance. Ref. Roger Zelazny, Call Me Conrad/This Immortal

[(Anonymous)]

Building drawers without the right power tools is a tough problem.
(That means: a table saw or a radial arm saw and a router)

In any case, you should cut all the identical parts (for all the drawers) at one time--not make the drawers one at a time. (ex: first cut all the sides; then turn them into left and right. Then cut all the bottoms, then fronts, then backs.)

75 minutes

[muehe.livejournal.com]

75 minutes, that is my guess.
Obviously the coon cat wanted to see how you did on your own. He must have liked your work on the early project. I hope he doesn’t stop by tonight. That would show lack of confidence in you.
Oh well, 1 step forward 2 steps back.