If I had a late start yesterday, I was even more delayed on the third day.
First, I was informed that “the family” had decided that they wanted ad-blocking turned back on on the pfSense firewall. I was told to turn this off several months ago. Of course, nothing is ever easy and when I enabled pfblockerng, the CPU shot to 100%. Eventually, I found that this was an unpatched bug and the fix was fairly straight-forward. I then started the art of balancing resource impact and feature turn-on. We now have very few ads showing.
Second, I was asked to install the desktop to Calin’s new fold-down desk in his bedroom. Gladly done. The kid is loving it for both stop-motion animation and as his battle station for gaming with his buddy in Tennessee.
It is a small Cape-style house, so we need to be creative with our use of space. This is a full 4′ x 2′ desk, but it folds down to stand only 3/4″ off the wall when not in use. Lots of ideas from watching shows about RV living. The father of our next-door neighbor, who has been in the house her entire life, had installed a million tweaks, like custom drawers in the walls, to maximize the space in the house. Jenny, Calin, and I are cramped just with the three of us, but the next-door folks had at least five people living in that house, which is the same exact as ours!
Eventually, this landed in the driveway, too.
I am now convinced that one should order one of these every five years and just pitch all the crap that has collected.
And, being now Monday, I called Lowe’s Customer Support, which gave me an unconvincing assurance that the shed will be delivered on Wednesday the 3rd…between 8AM and 8PM.
I spent the rest of the day loading all of the old shed remains into the dumpster, which was quite a bit more work than I expected. Yes, every part of my body was in pain by this point, but as I mentioned to Jenny at the end of the day, things that seemed heavy a few days ago, no longer seem heavy now.
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