Author: blueeyedpop
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Spring
and junk Life, feelings and what I am up to. Community involvement Today is a fun day. I am off to bergerac to help repair and build some educational robot stuff for kids. I am working on building a robotics tech presence to help get kids interested in electronics, software and mechanics. We are doing…
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10 centimeters
The date is August 1st, 2024. We have just signed a contract for a new kitchen. I won’t name names, I don’t know anything about French libel laws, I will merely state they are a nation-wide chain. Also, a wish is a dream the heart makes. That is a hint. A summary of the kitchen…
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When a kitchen comes in a clown car.
The Measurement saga on August 1st, 2024, we contracted a prominent manufacturer of kitchens to design and install our kitchen. There are 3 walls and an Island. Wall 1 is a counter surface with drawers on either side. It was built 10 cm too wide. (If you don’t know 10 cm, you live in Liberia,…
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Schrödinger’s vent hood
(And other kitchen shenanigans) So the kitchen is mostly done, with a few notable exceptions…We went with a nation-wide, “professional” service to keep things simple. Note that professional is in quotes to convey a sense of disappointment. When the kitchen cabinets arrived, there were a few issues. Measurements were off by 10cm or 20 cm…
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Yesterday
We have a visitor from ‘Murica here this week, so a little sightseeing was in order. Our friend Miss S, has been here before, in fact when my wife went to establish our beachhead in the gite from hell, Miss S came with her. She is no stranger to a wintery Bergerac, so there wasn’t…
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Roadtrip
Some seriously mundane shite out of Mundania in the south west of France. Wednesday we headed up to Perigueux to go to Leroy Merlin (I dare you not to say that like they would on the Dukes of Hazard, y’all) Leeeroy Mehrlin. We needed tile, some misc hardware, needed to return a vent hood, and…
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That Floaty Feeling
(Again) (me wrestling with floaty feelings) Yeah, I’ve probably talked about this floaty feeling way too much, but I think I finally have a good handle on what is going on, or at least part of what is going on… Or I don’t and I’ll be whinging about this again in the future… When I…
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Sitting, reflecting, writing
My second winter in France is approaching. We hit 0°C a few nights ago, ice on the roads, a millimeter or 3 of ice on the car. I still recall the weeks prior to our departure: The stress of the FDA stamp for the dogs to travel. Selling all of the cars and driving a…
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You had one job
Our kitchen renovation in (I have lost count) easy steps. Step one: Measure Measure the kitchen space to determine what can be put where. We opted to have a kitchen company help with the design, rather than simply go with Ikea. We are in the autumn of our lives, the necessity to do another kitchen…
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Then and now
A list of things I am getting used to I’m still vacillating between feeling totally normal here and wondering how I got here and what my place is in this new, wacky world, but as I look back, I see the things that felt totally alien slipping into normalcy. Shopping carts Shopping carts here, with…