{"id":253,"date":"2006-11-26T09:26:31","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T16:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2006\/11\/26\/happy-holidays-the-sickness-and-beyond\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T07:08:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:08:34","slug":"happy-holidays-the-sickness-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/happy-holidays-the-sickness-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"happy holidays, the sickness, and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

so Turkey Day came and went. go figure the evening before Thanksgiving I started to feel a little sick in the throat; someone I’m living with had similar conditions so I wouldn’t be surprised if I picked up something from them, combined with being stressed out and overworked from the intense work<\/a> this past week<\/a> at work<\/a>. However I did manage to sense the sore throat coming on a little earlier than usual and think I managed to suppress it quite well by consuming nearly a litre of whiskey these past four days. Although not looking forward to the context I’ll definitely give that cure-all another go!<\/p>\n

But not all was lost this weekend. I did manage to construct my tool shelf, which I have been planning for some time now but was for a while unable to find the proper shelving brackets<\/a>, which I finally found a few days ago during a tool run for another item. Sweet! So the shelf sits above the photocopier and the desktop monitor, and kind of frames off a previously-dead space part of the wall, while still allowing me to reach all the hand-tools. These are tools I use most-often, or in the case of the button maker are large and odd-shaped and otherwise difficult to store anywhere else.<\/p>\n

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The complete list of tools on the shelf are:<\/p>\n