With the kitchen illuminated again I had the mild burst of energy needed to do some other home repair stuff. The most kneeling-involved one was putting new screws into one of the brackets for the laundry chute. Somehow the old screws had come loose, one dropping onto the bathroom floor and the other dropping out of existence entirely. Ace Hardware had some new screws that, based on the example I had, were compatible in size and length, and it was but the work of a moment to put that back in.
I also picked up a couple brackets to re-mount the kitchen cabinet shelf. But in examining the shelving I discovered these are adjustable shelves. There's regularly spaced holes all set to have little tabs poked in. One had been replaced by a metal bracket, but the others were pieces similar to the plastic tab that had finally broken. Turns out Ace Hardware has replacement metal tabs for this so I figure to go back and pick some new ones up. They have some that seem to promise holding a weight of up to 44 pounds, so ... uh ... 176 pounds seems like it should be enough to hold our second-tier dishes.
While examining things generally I made a discovery about the lights over the bathroom mirror. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger had thought the fixture was irrevocably broken. But when I got the very late-50s/early-60s plastic cover off, I found that the fixtures worked fine. Three of the four bulbs were burned out is all. I got a four-pack of new bulbs and put them in and it's now very pleasantly bright. Washing the outer layers of dirt off the plastic cover helped too. Seeing the room lit up in bright yet heatless light I ... wondered if I should have got the 5000K 'daylight' bulbs instead of the 2700K 'warm' bulbs. The 'warm' lighting looks more like what we would have had there, but if the mirror lighting serves a purpose it's so see our skin in as neutral a light as possible so ... hm. Well, we can reconsider it when the bulbs burn out in (with normal use) 13 years or (with our use) in 143 years.
While doing that bulb-changing I also took the covers off three other ceiling fixtures, in the hall lamps and the guest bedroom, and discovered one of the CFL bulbs in the guest bedroom had been burned out. So replacing that with the incandescent no longer in the bathroom fixture we have a guest bedroom a fair bit brighter, for what that's useful for. (It's where I keep my dresser and clothes.)
I also got some topsoil, to try levelling out the divot in the ground next to our driveway that turns into a small tidal pool every time it rains. bunnyhugger noted we should probably put some gravel down, though, and she's right, so I guess I'll be hitting Ace again soon. More on this as it comes to pass.
We draw nearer the end of our short day at the Ionia Free Fair, but we're not there yet. Some more night photos:
Zero Gravity, a Round-Up, always one of my favorite rides. Note that at no point in the Round-Up's ride will you experience Zero Gravity. Indeed, if at any time during the ride cycle you did experience anything but elevated gravity, it would be a catastrophic failure.
Here's a less arty picture that still captures its lights in the same color phase.
And here's what it looks like from on the ride. The Zipper, which we did not ride, is in the background on the right.
Looking down into the center of the Round-Up ride. It almost looks like a roulette wheel.
Ride's over; folks getting off here. I like how the door looks like this portal in the otherwise unbroken wall of mesh and padding.
People not quite gotten off the ride, or who are already on for the next ride cycle, with the Zipper and Moon behind them.
Trivia: Sulfanomide, the first important broad-spectrum antibiotic, was developed and patented by I G Farben in 1909 as a dye. Source: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of the Elements, Sam Kean. The sulfa craze in the late 30s when the patents wore off resulted in the United States's elixir sulfanilamide mass poisoning in 1937, and from that the empowering of the Food and Drug Administration to oversee the safety of foods and drugs.
Currently Reading: The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts, Silvia Ferrara.
