{"id":27292,"date":"2012-04-02T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T15:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/the-not-so-secret-project-we-worked-on.html"},"modified":"2012-04-02T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T15:58:07","slug":"the-not-so-secret-project-we-worked-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/the-not-so-secret-project-we-worked-on.html","title":{"rendered":"The Not-So-Secret Project We Worked On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the fun things of last week&#39;s trip to California was actually doing some home improvement on Jim &amp; Ginger&#39;s house, in exchange for fifteen years of work they&#39;ve helped with on our place.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, we assisted in turning a huge mess of cables back behind their office desks into something that&#39;s fairly managed and manageable &#8212; pulling the desks back a foot, mounting stuff to the walls, adding hatches to the space, and adding a bookshelf as well.  <\/p>\n<p>Fun time. We didn&#39;t get everything quite complete, but it&#39;s about 90% there, and I have faith that Jim (unlike me) will get the last bits finished so we can ooh and aah over them in June.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/5726829392049126881'>In album K Office Project (8 photos)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-9g_N--YfXB0\/T3nI_ZUCzEI\/AAAAAAAAKIQ\/Srb0woz9Z9s\/s0-d\/2012-03-31_14-44-42_913.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-9g_N--YfXB0\/T3nI_ZUCzEI\/AAAAAAAAKIQ\/Srb0woz9Z9s\/s0-d\/2012-03-31_14-44-42_913.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><span>Power bars all mounted, and items plugged across them, nice and neat (a bit more bundling up of cables to be expected). Next step will be a set of 1-ft deep hinged doors across the gap with holes for the cables to come up through (the doors allowing future access to the space behind).<\/span><\/p>\n<div style='float:left;display:block;height:60px;width:60px;overflow:hidden;margin-right:5px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;'><a href='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-uiQirW3UYHE\/T3nI_aQ66UI\/AAAAAAAAKI4\/kGp-BxhQvu8\/s0-d\/2012-03-31_15-49-09_404.jpg'><img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2F-uiQirW3UYHE%2FT3nI_aQ66UI%2FAAAAAAAAKI4%2FkGp-BxhQvu8%2Fw54-h96%2F2012-03-31_15-49-09_404.jpg' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style='float:left;display:block;height:60px;width:60px;overflow:hidden;margin-right:5px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;'><a href='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-n_35F-z9h6Y\/T3nI_c5R85I\/AAAAAAAAKIQ\/rsLHiE-tX1A\/s0-d\/2012-03-31_15-53-00_55.jpg'><img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Flh4.googleusercontent.com%2F-n_35F-z9h6Y%2FT3nI_c5R85I%2FAAAAAAAAKIQ%2FrsLHiE-tX1A%2Fw128-h72%2F2012-03-31_15-53-00_55.jpg' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style='float:left;display:block;height:60px;width:60px;overflow:hidden;margin-right:5px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;'><a href='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-sw2q9kEinUE\/T3nI_eghmyI\/AAAAAAAAKJE\/Qc499aQ2Fcg\/s0-d\/2012-03-31_15-53-18_654.jpg'><img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Flh4.googleusercontent.com%2F-sw2q9kEinUE%2FT3nI_eghmyI%2FAAAAAAAAKJE%2FQc499aQ2Fcg%2Fw54-h96%2F2012-03-31_15-53-18_654.jpg' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style='float:left;display:block;height:60px;width:60px;overflow:hidden;margin-right:5px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;'><a href='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-rVXKLKCfmzw\/T3nI_QHurEI\/AAAAAAAAKJM\/ExF0Yhj0YgU\/s0-d\/2012-03-30_12-14-56_382.jpg'><img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2F-rVXKLKCfmzw%2FT3nI_QHurEI%2FAAAAAAAAKJM%2FExF0Yhj0YgU%2Fw54-h96%2F2012-03-30_12-14-56_382.jpg' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style='float:left;display:block;height:60px;width:60px;overflow:hidden;margin-right:5px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;'><a href='\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-z9XisF_ZuBY\/T3nI_fZofeI\/AAAAAAAAKJU\/m_eyddKQMas\/s0-d\/2012-03-25_10-41-52_558.jpg'><img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=%2F%2Flh4.googleusercontent.com%2F-z9XisF_ZuBY%2FT3nI_fZofeI%2FAAAAAAAAKJU%2Fm_eyddKQMas%2Fw54-h96%2F2012-03-25_10-41-52_558.jpg' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style='float:left;display:block;height:60px;width:60px;overflow:hidden;margin-right:5px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;'><a href='\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-KvlQVitWWlg\/T3nI_Vl1FmI\/AAAAAAAAKJk\/Nk7zZvwItbc\/s0-d\/2012-03-25_10-52-02_623.jpg'><img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2F-KvlQVitWWlg%2FT3nI_Vl1FmI%2FAAAAAAAAKJk%2FNk7zZvwItbc%2Fw128-h72%2F2012-03-25_10-52-02_623.jpg' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style='float:left;display:block;height:60px;width:60px;overflow:hidden;margin-right:5px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;'><a href='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-D7Z-x03ZfH0\/T3nI_XKmkyI\/AAAAAAAAKIQ\/Cl4KwHQV7wM\/s0-d\/2012-03-24_11-36-40_234.jpg'><img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2F-D7Z-x03ZfH0%2FT3nI_XKmkyI%2FAAAAAAAAKIQ%2FCl4KwHQV7wM%2Fw54-h96%2F2012-03-24_11-36-40_234.jpg' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the fun things of last week&#39;s trip to California was actually doing some home improvement on Jim &amp; Ginger&#39;s house, in exchange for fifteen years of work they&#39;ve helped with on our place. In this case, we assisted in turning a huge mess of cables back behind their office desks into something that&#39;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/the-not-so-secret-project-we-worked-on.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Not-So-Secret Project We Worked On&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-27292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10680,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/21\/the_guest_room_project_pa.html","url_meta":{"origin":27292,"position":0},"title":"The Guest Room Project (Part 1)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Nov-06 9:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"So this all started a couple of years ago with the idea of turning the office (the room off the loft, at the top of the stairs) into a better...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Home Improvement&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Home Improvement","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/home-improvement"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129101,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/09\/town-without-pity-hotel-room-without-desk.html","url_meta":{"origin":27292,"position":1},"title":"Town without pity. 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