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[djellison]

The ultimate forum backup has been made

I've been planning a shed that is also an office for about 12 months - but 9 days ago my neigbour helped me set up the wooden shuttering so that this weekend just gone, we could pour a concrete base for it.

Now - you can't just set to work with the mixer and get on with it can you...oh no....you have to do two things

1. Bury stuff

2. Write things in the concrete

So -as these pictures will show - a backup of the forum was taken - burnt to DVD - tucked away in a case, in a bag, and burried under the concrete just about where the door of the shed will be - and the UMSF logo badly drawn on top of the spot. Also, In the far corner of the concrete where it will stick out a bit from the shed base, I also wrote DHLLL and the logo - that's Me, Helen, Lee (the neigbour) Lorren (his little girl who helped...a bit...she's on the 'pluto is a planet' side of the fence) and Lorraine, (Mrs the neigbour). i.e. everyone who was involved in sorting out the foundations for UMSF HQ

I'm still finding concrete in my hair!!

Shed will go up in the next couple of weeks, but it will probably be after I get back from Valencia before I can sort out the inside of the shed and fit it out with a proper floor, walls and office 'stuff'

Anyway - the DVD should be fairly safe for a few years under 4 inches of concrete!

Doug

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[djellison]

Well - I'm currently sat on a nice black office chair about 18 inches above the yellow handled shovel
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ost&id=7174
Just about where this chair is - http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ost&id=8154

but inside a completed shedoffice. Walls are up, painted 'pecan' (Mars Sky if you ask me) - carpet down, some posters up, cool halogen lights up, shelving in place, made my own desk to fit (of which I'm very proud) - blind, Pathfinder blueprints across the ceiling, Pioneer Plaque on one wall, and the £1 Ikea clock that I sprayed and printed a custom face for to look like the tacho from a Lotus 49B F1 car from 1968 ....all sorted

The wireless network wouldn't quite reach, so I ran a network cable around the inside of the shed when boarding it up - through the old brick shed, through the garage, down the side of the house and into the front of the house where the phone and sat-tv go, and into the back of the wireless router.

And this is the first post to UMSF made from the shed, down that cable....it's a 100m roll, of which only about 30 is being used - the rest rolled up in various places in case I had to chop and re-run the cable because of a breakage etc - but thankfully - it worked first time...just crimped the connector on the shed end and it works..YAY!!!

Every time I walk in here, I get a glance of some paw prints that Suzi left just after the concrete started to set. I hoped that she would join me in here from time to time, but it was not to be - a picture of Suzi rock will certainly be going on the wall soon. Perhaps Gizmo - our new cat that we've had just a few weeks - will pay me a visit once she's settled into her new home a little more

Pictures tomorrow!

Doug