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taking our immune systems for a test drive I
Thursday, April 22 2021
Today marked two weeks since the second Pfiser coronavirus shot that Gretchen and I received at the site of the old Best Buy, so we thought we'd celebrate it by going to the kind of restaurant that has things we can eat but a relatively Trumpy clientele, something I called "taking our immune systems for a test drive." By a little after 8:00pm, Gretchen had already done two different Zoom-based poetry readings, but it turned out that Stella's, the Uptown Italian restaurant we've occasionally dined at over the entire time we've lived upstate, was open until 10:00pm. So after Gretchen was all done with her Zoom meetings (and Powerful was done with his), we all piled into the Leaf and drove to Stella's. But it turned out that their website wasn't quite synced up with reality, because when we walked into Stella's, the woman behind the bar told us that the kitchen had closed at 8:00pm.
Meanwhile, I'd found new places on the laboratory floor to paint with the crappy white paint I am trying to get rid of (the one with the clots of pigment at the bottom). There's a desk near the laboratory's southwest corner under which I store several large containers and one of the few CRT monitors I haven't gotten rid of. I pulled all that stuff out, cleaned up some ancient cat piss, and then dumped out a puddle of paint and shepherded it around with a drywall taping knife.
Recently I found a new way to add storage to the laboratory. I have plenty of shelves, some of which can be hidden behind paintings that hang on hinges. Why not add doors to other shelves and attach storage solutions to the outsides of those doors? That idea led me to create a door for one of the shelves near the middle of the laboratory's west wall-ceiling. Onto that door, I mounted a 30-drawer hardware storage bin. I've got enough such bins for things like screws, nuts, washers, and bolts, so I'm thinking of using this to better subdivide my electronic components.
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