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Feb. 29th, 2020 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicornduke I spent most of today cleaning, even though the plan originally was to clean for a little bit this morning and do the rest tomorrow but I got on a roll
Morning cleaning was the living room and kitchen while I warmed the milk for yogurt. It needs to be stirred every 20 mins or so until it's close to 200 degrees, when it's every 5 minutes or else the bottom will scorch.
After lunch, I started working on my room. Original plan was to stack a shelf on top of another shelf so I could get all my spinning fiber stacked on top of my yarn shelf. I ended up moving and cleaning about 70% of my belongings and cleared a whole ton of space.
This means I can fit the 5 foot long, taller than me,4 shelf rack of grow lights right where my current table + grow light is since all the things that had been stored under it are now in different places. I'm starting some things for me and a bunch of tomatoes and peppers for my parents so more room was needed
Plus I'm planning to have a year round herb and possibly some citrus trees soon so moar grow lights needed.
I suspect the electricity bill will go up a little, because the grow lights were my grandma's and they're the standard old bar ones. If I had to buy new ones, I'd get the full spectrum purples but these ones are free and that's the best price. I just need to find a way to pack them in my truck so they don't shatter on 88.
Morning cleaning was the living room and kitchen while I warmed the milk for yogurt. It needs to be stirred every 20 mins or so until it's close to 200 degrees, when it's every 5 minutes or else the bottom will scorch.
After lunch, I started working on my room. Original plan was to stack a shelf on top of another shelf so I could get all my spinning fiber stacked on top of my yarn shelf. I ended up moving and cleaning about 70% of my belongings and cleared a whole ton of space.
This means I can fit the 5 foot long, taller than me,4 shelf rack of grow lights right where my current table + grow light is since all the things that had been stored under it are now in different places. I'm starting some things for me and a bunch of tomatoes and peppers for my parents so more room was needed
Plus I'm planning to have a year round herb and possibly some citrus trees soon so moar grow lights needed.
I suspect the electricity bill will go up a little, because the grow lights were my grandma's and they're the standard old bar ones. If I had to buy new ones, I'd get the full spectrum purples but these ones are free and that's the best price. I just need to find a way to pack them in my truck so they don't shatter on 88.
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Date: 2020-02-29 11:27 pm (UTC)Get some closed-cell foam pipe insulation, stick each one in a full length piece, and put the lot in a box tightly enough that they can't rattle? And then make sure they're crossways between the back wheels in the truck bed? (Least end-to-end stress that way, or at least I think so.)
The purpose-made boxes for fluorescents are all cardboard, but I don't know of any way to get one without buying a bunch of lights.
(woohoo, productive day!)
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Date: 2020-03-02 12:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-03-02 12:31 am (UTC)<fussbudget>busted fluorescents expose you to the coating on the inside, and the stuff gets in any cuts from the glass shards, which then refuse to heal. (Said stuff is a war crime if used on people on purpose.)</fussbudget>
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Date: 2020-03-02 01:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-03-02 03:20 pm (UTC)(The point that you have to twist fluorescents to get them into the sockets came up; I was duly informed that that's rotating them, and if there's any resistance, you stop.)
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Date: 2020-03-03 01:44 pm (UTC)As it turns out, cleaning my room was very good because I found two power outlets in convenient spots that I had forgotten were there.
My boss thinks I need to buy a house to fit all my hobbies and he's not wrong but also houses are expensive.
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Date: 2020-03-03 06:07 pm (UTC)I wouldn't say either you or your boss were wrong about houses.