31.10.2024 Let there be light.

 ~o~

  Thursday 31st 51F/11C. Overcast. Dry but increasingly windy from the west.

 Up at 6am after a fairly quiet night.

 Physio class in town this morning. I'll drive there. It saves lots of traveling time and makes shopping much easier.

 The display cabinet really wants to be in the living room. I could move one of the two grandfather clocks. Or, it could stand beside the TV as an accent light. In place of the present table lamp and mirror. Either option would block access to the side of the dining table. Which task the clock presently performs so admirably, yet darkly. The tallboy, standing beside it, shares the dark wood finish. Diminishing, instead of increasing the light levels where it is so desperately needed. Neither clock is running. So they are both purely ornamental.

 I like the dining table where it is now. After two decades of it dominating the far end of the room. Yet was rarely used. Except for collecting more junk. Old habits die hard. 

 This is probably all very boring for most of my readers. However, I am desperate to find something interesting to do. Other than watching YouTube videos and escaping on my e-bike. My days were once filled with some project or another. Now I struggle to find interest in anything at all. The house has remained largely unchanged since my blitz with a white paint brush and laying a few tiles. I have more of those to do but procrastinate.

 The living room walls remain strictly hovel. Bare rough cement to the south. Bare and damaged plasterboard to the north. All three, external walls should insulated. I am still waiting for the Nobel Prize winning. Affordable, low skill, insulation for domestic buildings. Getting to Mars, before the world burns, is allegedly more important. 

 8.00 There was light drizzle as I walked briskly to the far end of the drive and back. About 400m. I've had my shower. Time to go.

 10.30 Back from physio. Feeling stronger and fitter each time. I bought a cheap 3m long, LED strip for the display cabinet. Complete with PS and remote. Also a couple of wooden door knobs for the pine, recycling container cupboard.  

 The image [above right] shows the effect of hanging 3m of LED lights down the edges of the shelves. I would prefer the LEDs were hidden from direct view behind a strip of some sort. The doors are separated by a wooden moulding. I could attach the LED strip to that. Though this would halve the light output and make it more directional. The LED strip can be cut between diodes if needed. 

 The second image [left] shows the single strip running down and hidden behind the centre bar. Temporarily clipped so that the doors can't close. I think it looks better than the visible LEDs. Even at its brightest setting the white light is very blue.    

 Dinner was fish fingers and chips. I forgot to take a picture.

 

 ~o~