Insulating against the birds

[alexxkay]

Busy, long day. Woken at dawn by noisy birds, as I have been for a week or so now. Spring definitely has downsides. Got annoyed enough to (try to) do something about it. Spent much of the morning moving furniture around, so that the window to my bedroom is not just blocked but really thoroughly blocked, by about 6 inches of paper in most places. I generally like to keep my shelves loosely packed, for easy access and insertion, but I'll sacrifice that to create a noise buffer. Hope it works...

Unexpectedly got access to the car in the afternoon, so filled it with (digitized) comic boxes to trade back to Outer Limits. Had a god conversation with Steve about the nature of the evolving market.

Also of note, picked the first 2 strawberries today. Sue, our gardener is complaining that the garden is six weeks ahead of schedule. I make it more like 1.5, but it still does seem likely to be a bumper year.

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[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

To be technical, these were "half boxes". I converted over to them years ago when I concluded that it was hard enough to lift even that much volume of paper, and full comic boxes were for younger (or at least fitter) men than me.

[jducoeur]

Yeah, these days I tend to run a mix. My collection is *mostly* longboxes, but anything that is "active" (due to sorting or inventory) gets moved to shortboxes for the interim...