In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:29
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Oh... right.
I wanted to ask you both what you think in case you didn't see me ask before...
Now that I've found the wooden in-wall toilet paper holder and I've got it sanded down, what color do you think I should make it? Do you think it would look better with the high-gloss white paint I use for the window and door trim? Or do you think it would look better with the dark grey paint that is slightly darker than the wall grey?
You can see how the wall is trimmed out in the two pictures below and the hole that I've got to make slightly bigger to fit this box. The box itself is really cool. It's a literal wooden box that's framed on the outside with a few bevels and really classy.
I'm thinking white to match all the trim right around it. I'm already thinking that I'm going white with my new toilet when that time comes around too, so the white does flow back along the cabinet wall up to the sink basin and back to the white trim of the door.
I think that the dark grey could be interesting, but I'm kind of thinking that I'll end up regretting that and wishing I'd done it white.
What do you think?
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Some pictures to go along with my walls of text... 
Here's the toilet paper box. I didn't think to take a picture before I sanded it down today. That hole is also on the opposite side and where the spindle goes. 
My god... was this piece a bear. I did everything I possible could with the power sander about a month ago, but that wasn't much. My fingers and thumbs got a hell of a workout today.
Here's our over-the-toilet cab. The doors will go on the top, and I've got a huge nook underneath them for my beard trimmer and whatever once I get an electric box inside of it. 
The doors to the toilet cabinet, and the shelves to the medicine cabinet.
I don't believe I've ever shown you the inside of the bathroom door where I'd already sanded down and painted a few of these pieces by the same woodworker and attached them to the inside of the door before, have I?
This last picture involves finally solving a Scooby-Doo Mystery I've been pondering for a few weeks now...
When I was first looking through the old light fixtures I had, I noticed that one of the 3 glass shades for it looked quite a bit darker than the other two... almost as if there were some soot on it. And then when looking at the plastic washer things you screw into the vanity to hold in the shades, it also looked like there was some black crap but only on one of them...
Huh... Was there a fire with this thing? Couldn't be. My friend would have thrown that thing right out and not given it to me. And then today I was looking at the unit itself and the center of the 3 outlets looked like it had soot on it...
I cleaned that up and put the wires into my wall outlet with the 3 bulbs in and it worked just fine. (Which, incidentally, was great since I just found out these bulbs were $6 a pop today).
Then I looked at my medicine cabinet and it all finally clicked...
A few months back when I first pulled these cabinets apart to start working on them, I finally got around to pulling the few layers of some really expensive looking black tape that was most of the surface of the top. I figured somebody put that up there to protect the surface like I did with contact paper, but not realizing how much damage tape like that could possibly do to it. But nope...
That was holding in a bunch of burnt wood.
I figure that it had to be from some sort of candle that somebody had lit on top of it and maybe forgot about when they went out of town for the weekend and when they came back home they thanked god their house didn't burn down.
So it all kind of clicked for me...
They have MUCH higher ceilings in their house than I do. It's not quite a McMansion, but I'm sure it was among the bigger houses back in the day before they started making them all STUPID big. If a candle burned on top of my medicine cabinet, the smoke would probably be coming from higher than the vanity light shades by quite a bit, but he probably had a candle burning the medicine cabinet right under that lamp shade and that's where all the soot came from. 
Nothing a little wood filler can't fix. It's getting painted, and unless I start hanging out with the Indiana Pacers, I doubt I'll ever have anybody in my house who would see it anyway.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Okay, I get it. I've never used a kindle so I have no idea what the print on them looks like.
I wish I could lend you my Paperwhite Kindle so you could see if you liked it for reading.
I'm not a fan of the other kindles for reading at all, and I'm sure you wouldn't be either. They are better than looking at a tablet or a computer screen, especially if you get the brightness down to the right level, but it's still like looking at a computer screen to me.
But the Paperwhite? That's a different story.
My brother gave me one many years ago and when I was doing that mechatronics course I had all of the notes I'd typed up and some books loaded up into that thing and they were awesome to look at with that type of Kindle, in my opinion.
I don't know what happened to my brother's Paperwhite. I may still find it packed away in one of my boxes in the attic. It wasn't down with the rest of them. I thought it was at first until I realized that the Kindle my dad gave me last year with a lot of his favorite Sci Fi books on it was the Paperwhite in that pile.
Anyway... I'm getting way off topic. If anybody you know is ever getting rid of a Paperwhite Kindle, you should give that a shot. Instead of looking at a computer screen, I would compare it more twoards looking at an Etch A Sketch. But it's bright, and totally readable. It doesn't make my eyes go buggy like trying to read a book off a full color kindle would.
EDIT:
Wow. Way more expensive new than I thought they would have been.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DFYWDGW6
$160!!!
I hear that these things get 2 weeks of battery life off a single charge though. I believe it.
It's really hard to explain to you how cool it is unless you see it, Brenda.
It's even cool how it displays the full colored covers to books. It's all black and white, but they look really neat in the book selection screen and when you first pull up a book to read in full screen.
I actually thought those were special black and white books on my dad's Paperwhite, but when I ripped them onto my computer and put them on another kindle they were the full color pictures. It's just how the Paperwhite handles them.
I'd never tell you to spend $160, but if you ever see one used going cheap in your travels, give it a shot. I don't think you'll regret it.
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Never know. I do love my gadgets at times.
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Think later SIX. I'll slip some "Phantom of the Opera" in that old Dreamtrove thread.
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Just a Sunday around me. Not much doing.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Never know. I do love my gadgets at times.
If you see one and you don't mind the asking price, you should give it a shot.
My dad surprised me by switching to the new regular Kindles because he said they're so much better than they used to be, but for years he only would use the Paperwhite. And Kindles all around seem to have a really excellent battery life. Out of all 5 of those that I tested, only one of the two that were 10 years or older had a battery that seemed to die pretty quickly on you. People like my Dad upgrade theirs every 2 or 3 years or so, so I'm sure you could find one with a lot of years of battery life left in it for a decent price.
I wouldn't be able to tell you about the quality difference myself since I'm pretty sure the newest one I have is at least 6 years old. It's a pretty nice device with a lot of storage space, but I still wouldn't want to use that to read a novel off of. But if my Dad made the switch after all these years of refusing to, there's probably something to that.
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Huh. I might take a lot at things out of curiosity.
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Could be a future project for you now that you're learning more about how to use a PC.
Officially, they would want you to use the Amazon store to buy books, but there's nothing preventing you from acquiring your own elsewhere and putting them on the kindle.
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Oh... By the way, I finally got around to doing a final count on the 15TB drive now that I'm done dehoarding and backing things up.
Over one million, one hundred and twelve thousand files.
And that's only what I'm keeping.
There were probably easily over 3 million files on that drive once I got everything over there and started going through it all.
Granted, a good chunk of those files are the final build of my project and the earlier build. I do now have that one single disk image that replaces more than half of it. But having it all separate is still valuable to me.
I'm working now on making a much more curated build that wasn't trying to encompass everything and does a better job of prioritizing that which people would have the most interest in if free space is an issue for them. It's also a good way of filtering out a lot of "noise". If I had to do it all again, I would have programmed in some code to do that regardless, but it's on my to-do list if I ever go back to the work.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Could be a future project for you now that you're learning more about how to use a PC.
Officially, they would want you to use the Amazon store to buy books, but there's nothing preventing you from acquiring your own elsewhere and putting them on the kindle.
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My library lets you borrow e-books. Just have to sign up for the feature.
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