Sorry there hasn’t been much in the way of idiocy, gossip or heresy from your humble blogonaut over the past few days.
One is currently mired in the heady delights of project management. Once one gets one’s lazy backside into gear, one will have plenty to measure, plan, cost, correlate and compare, not to mention discuss with Herself.
Our house has a number of things which need fixing. Now that the time has come to make some improvements and changes, the maintenance jobs may as well join the happy throng of supplicants awaiting the arrival of Tuits, Circular.
Replacing the current electrical hot water system is first cab off the rank: it makes nasty clicky noises all night, and must be operating with all the efficiency of a M$oft bloatware application.
The rainwater tank, which provides our potable water, is a teenager. I base this conclusion on two observations: firstly, the fact I’ve been here over ten years, and secondly,
it has developed acne.
Actually I’m ashamed at how much of our meagre rainfall I’ve allowed to go to ground: the house tank is not large enough, and there’s almost 100 square metres of roofs on extensions and outbuildings with no tankage at all. The old saying about never missing your water until… well, it’s showtime! Any more rain will need to be shepherded more carefully.
We’re in the Dream Big stage at the moment. The three storey Quilt Fabric Repository, my indoor trebuchet range, and the roof-mounted telescope pointing at Angry Budgie’s place (concealing a working webcam),
will probably have to wait a while.
In order to get the most bang for our fairly limited bucks, I’ve got to do a kind of Domesday Book in miniature:
A document of all the repair, enhancement or addition tasks, with
- measurements,
- lists of materials,
- manpower estimates,
- approximate costs of outside labour if needed,
- dependencies on other stuff getting done,
- flow-on effects of completion/non-completion of the task,
- and need/ desirability rating.
From this, I can estimate how miserably poor we are with astonishing accuracy!
One benefit of the huuuuuuge overview documentation is that I will be able to sit down and look at what seems a task too large to stomach
and knock off an achievable nibble a day.
Now, if only Herself, pets and I could achieve hive-mind status; ah, the things we could build!
(Picture ganked from here.)
More as it comes to hand…
(Walks off, humming If I Were A Carpenter)
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