{"id":15490,"date":"2010-10-31T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2010\/10\/31\/time-to-make-a-stand\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:16","slug":"time-to-make-a-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2010\/10\/31\/time-to-make-a-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to make a stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear:both\">Craig and I did some grocery-shopping this morning, took the recycling to the tip, then came home and had a nice afternoon breakfast.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1199\/time-to-make-a-stand0.jpg.webp\" height=\"281\" width=\"300\" style=\"text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px\">I should make dinner soon. Craig keeps teaching me bits of Scottish culture, so tonight I&#8217;m going to &#8220;treat&#8221; him to a North American classic: <em>the chilli-cheese dog<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">(In other words, I&#8217;m being lazy and adding a veggie-protein tube to some leftovers and dressing it up as a cross-cultural treat.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">But that&#8217;s later. For the moment, I suspect we&#8217;re both still full, and we&#8217;re both working on our own projects.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">~<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">I had a <em>huge<\/em> success this morning: I made a stand for holding a book open so I could take a picture of it. I had no idea how I could do this, then this morning I woke up and just knew how. As soon as I heard Craig was awake and listening to the radio in the next room (and thus it was okay to make noise), I got to work, sawing and hand-drilling.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1199\/time-to-make-a-stand1.jpg.webp\" height=\"238\" width=\"498\" style=\"text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px\">So thanks, once again, to Dad for buying me a hacksaw, which I used in this project, and which started me on this path of being able to provide exactly what I need for myself rather than having to search around for it &#8212; which is particularly helpful now that I live in a small town where there are fewer places to look for things.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">And, of course, being able to DIY something you&#8217;ve imagined is the best thing of all!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">~<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">I was in a bit of a panic yesterday with all the things I wanted to do, but, sure enough, bit by bit they&#8217;re getting done &#8212; like making this stand so I can take proper pictures of all my hardcover journals and get them back in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hame.land\/shop\/shop.html\" title=\"The Bookshop\">my website&#8217;s bookshop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">Everything doesn&#8217;t get done at once like my brain wants it to, but incremental progress kinda turns a fire-hose on my flaming amygdala, at least temporarily.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;<br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear:both\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1199\/time-to-make-a-stand2.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig and I did some grocery-shopping this morning, took the recycling to the tip, then came home and had a nice afternoon breakfast. I should make dinner soon. Craig keeps teaching me bits of Scottish culture, so tonight I&#8217;m going to &#8220;treat&#8221; him to a North American classic: the chilli-cheese dog. 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