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This morning, it was bright but misty. The house looked quite pretty, as we came back from our hack:
We timed it well, as the Parcel Force guy came driving along just after I took that, so I told him we'd be there in a minute and he went on ahead and unloaded the Ikea delivery while we caught him up. I foolishly forgot that I was on the Baby, not GB, when I went to sign for the delivery: GB would have just stood there glaring at him, but the Baby stood still for long enough to establish that there were no treats available and then tried to walk off back to the stables. Sigh.
As well as new shelves for the back store room, the order included a shelf unit that I'd bought to try and tidy my desk. When we moved in, we both just threw the contents of our desks into the study, and they've rather just sat there, acquiring new layers of stuff on top of the stuff we brought with us. I also appropriated the old Billy corner unit, and stacked that full of stuff as well:
I had a nasty moment when I first tried to put the shelves on top of my desk and couldn't get them to fit (I did, I *did* measure the gap! Are the walls not square??), but then I realised that I'd put the little hanging hooks on the side, and they were making it *just* too wide for the gap. Everything's now all lovely and organised, and two spare shelves in the Billy fornew junk Mike to use:
I suppose that I've now got no excuse for not getting on and doing something more creative than making blankets....
In Thunderbird news, having left it entirely alone overnight to get everything downloaded it has now stopped freezing whenever I ask it to do anything. My only complaint is that it doesn't reliably tell me about unread email outside the inbox unless I manually tell it to Get Mail, which is a little annoying. That, and I can't figure out a way to get it to give me the unread count on folders other than the inbox. I used to have a lovely little jobbie called Mail Unread Menu, that gave me a count of selected folders in the menu bar. I'm sure that there is an add on to do it, but all the ones I've found are either Not Available For My Platform or say things like "Maintains a file in the profile root directory with counts for unread messages per account. Useful for display in generic status bar, e.g.: taffybar, xmobar, dzen2, etc", and I have no idea what to do with that.
We timed it well, as the Parcel Force guy came driving along just after I took that, so I told him we'd be there in a minute and he went on ahead and unloaded the Ikea delivery while we caught him up. I foolishly forgot that I was on the Baby, not GB, when I went to sign for the delivery: GB would have just stood there glaring at him, but the Baby stood still for long enough to establish that there were no treats available and then tried to walk off back to the stables. Sigh.
As well as new shelves for the back store room, the order included a shelf unit that I'd bought to try and tidy my desk. When we moved in, we both just threw the contents of our desks into the study, and they've rather just sat there, acquiring new layers of stuff on top of the stuff we brought with us. I also appropriated the old Billy corner unit, and stacked that full of stuff as well:
I had a nasty moment when I first tried to put the shelves on top of my desk and couldn't get them to fit (I did, I *did* measure the gap! Are the walls not square??), but then I realised that I'd put the little hanging hooks on the side, and they were making it *just* too wide for the gap. Everything's now all lovely and organised, and two spare shelves in the Billy for
I suppose that I've now got no excuse for not getting on and doing something more creative than making blankets....
In Thunderbird news, having left it entirely alone overnight to get everything downloaded it has now stopped freezing whenever I ask it to do anything. My only complaint is that it doesn't reliably tell me about unread email outside the inbox unless I manually tell it to Get Mail, which is a little annoying. That, and I can't figure out a way to get it to give me the unread count on folders other than the inbox. I used to have a lovely little jobbie called Mail Unread Menu, that gave me a count of selected folders in the menu bar. I'm sure that there is an add on to do it, but all the ones I've found are either Not Available For My Platform or say things like "Maintains a file in the profile root directory with counts for unread messages per account. Useful for display in generic status bar, e.g.: taffybar, xmobar, dzen2, etc", and I have no idea what to do with that.