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Friday: speedrunning lighting
Sep. 20th, 2024 10:37 amThere had been a ton of LED strip lighting in the house plans, and it is just all getting ripped out. J. had a lot of concerns about interaction between millwork and lighting (fair! And glad she brought that up now). I discovered that a bunch of us have issues with high contrast parallel lines at close intervals. We tried to replace the millwork + lighting solutions with integrated products, and the lighting rep was awesome, but the architect less so, and I’m just tired of the whole thing so we’re going trad flush mount, semi flush mount, pendant, kinda like rock paper scissors but more expensive. Turns out that the cove lighting has to go away (I would have kept that) because the ceiling was lowered to include the sprinkler piping and that wiped out the space in the vertical for the cove. I think all that’s left is the LED linear lights sitting on top of kitchen cabinets. Hilarious.
I’m also finding out that there was stuff in the drawings I _still_ hadn’t spotted. I’ll still be discovering shit in this house after it’s built. Oh well.
R. arranged for parking for tonight, and it’s way cheaper than what I would usually do (well, usually I would take the train, but otherwise park in the garage on site).
I arranged to pick A. up early from school, so we can get her settled in and leave in time to drive, park, acquire food, etc.
ETA: show was great. We had dinner at The Tack Room. I bought plane tickets for our March trip; JetBlue is having a sale.
Twenty-One Pilots have really taken the whole Tell the Crowd What to Do to an entirely new level. Chainsmokers just told you (and for the most part, it worked) but with Twenty-One Pilots, it’s so much more interactive. Watching someone walk out on top of the crowd. Watching them clear a big circle, set up temporary platforms, and then _let the crowd back in around them_ was really awe inspiring. You can see that there is a level of cooperation and mutual trust and love that is incredibly rare. I kept watching what they were doing and thinking about Zelensky, and Ohio, and how beautiful people are, and how creative people are, and how even people who just don’t fit in great anywhere will figure out ways to work together when the circumstances and leadership are right. How leaders come from such unexpected places.
I’m also finding out that there was stuff in the drawings I _still_ hadn’t spotted. I’ll still be discovering shit in this house after it’s built. Oh well.
R. arranged for parking for tonight, and it’s way cheaper than what I would usually do (well, usually I would take the train, but otherwise park in the garage on site).
I arranged to pick A. up early from school, so we can get her settled in and leave in time to drive, park, acquire food, etc.
ETA: show was great. We had dinner at The Tack Room. I bought plane tickets for our March trip; JetBlue is having a sale.
Twenty-One Pilots have really taken the whole Tell the Crowd What to Do to an entirely new level. Chainsmokers just told you (and for the most part, it worked) but with Twenty-One Pilots, it’s so much more interactive. Watching someone walk out on top of the crowd. Watching them clear a big circle, set up temporary platforms, and then _let the crowd back in around them_ was really awe inspiring. You can see that there is a level of cooperation and mutual trust and love that is incredibly rare. I kept watching what they were doing and thinking about Zelensky, and Ohio, and how beautiful people are, and how creative people are, and how even people who just don’t fit in great anywhere will figure out ways to work together when the circumstances and leadership are right. How leaders come from such unexpected places.