We're about 2/3 to 3/4 done it looks like.
Monday, April 30, 2007
Sunday, April 29, 2007
L.A. Times Festival of Books Sunday 29th
Day 2
Started the day with the Cartoonists. 11:00 North 'C' PANEL 2031 10:00 AM The Sunday Funnies Mr. Bill Amend (Foxtrot), Mr. Wiley Miller (Non Sequitor) Went and picked up his kids book early from 829 whale of a tale, and brought it to the signing,
Mr. Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine), Mr. Jerry Scott (artist for Baby Blues & Zits) He wasn't signing. Good thing we went early, once the panel was out there was a mob of a line. Afterwards we went and took a load of signed books to the car.
We started the line at 12:20 for the 1:00 Berkeley Breathed Mars Needs Moms (Bloom County, Outland, Opus) SUN 813 Duttons.

Managed to convince Duttons to go 3 old for each new books purchased.
Trotted over to the 1:00 Michael Connelly sun 1-2 411 mystery bookstore - he's a quick signer.
Then down to 1:30 South 'Z' Ms. Jane Smiley, another quick trip, I expected a larger line.
Back up to Mystery Bookstore for 2:00 411 Walter Mosley
After that we just wandered, found some interesting things, bookmark/bracelets, and local histories that I'll try and get for the store.





Found an amazing photo/art book at Baby Tattoo Books Booth # 234 VISIONS FROM WITHIN THE MECHANISM: THE INDUSTRIAL SURREALISM OF JEFFERY SCOTT (1019)


Then we left early.

Started the day with the Cartoonists. 11:00 North 'C' PANEL 2031 10:00 AM The Sunday Funnies Mr. Bill Amend (Foxtrot), Mr. Wiley Miller (Non Sequitor) Went and picked up his kids book early from 829 whale of a tale, and brought it to the signing,
We started the line at 12:20 for the 1:00 Berkeley Breathed Mars Needs Moms (Bloom County, Outland, Opus) SUN 813 Duttons.
Trotted over to the 1:00 Michael Connelly sun 1-2 411 mystery bookstore - he's a quick signer.
Then down to 1:30 South 'Z' Ms. Jane Smiley, another quick trip, I expected a larger line.
Back up to Mystery Bookstore for 2:00 411 Walter Mosley
After that we just wandered, found some interesting things, bookmark/bracelets, and local histories that I'll try and get for the store.
Found an amazing photo/art book at Baby Tattoo Books Booth # 234 VISIONS FROM WITHIN THE MECHANISM: THE INDUSTRIAL SURREALISM OF JEFFERY SCOTT (1019)


Then we left early.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
L.A. Times Festival of Books Saturday 28th
Day 1
Shelley, Bain & Aric
First signature of the day 10:00 #411 Frank Beddor mystery bookstore
Wandered a bit until 11:30 513 Hilary Knight - Eloise artist at every picture tells a story, I'd always thought Hilary Knight was a woman, but he's an elderly english man. Polite with a nice signatues, but no sketching.
11:00 #411 Robert Crais mystery bookstore, skipped the mile long Mary Higgins Clark line and just got Crais.
12:30 South "X" PANEL 1102 11:30 AM Fiction: Writing Across Genres
Ms. Francesca Lia Block,
Ms. S.E. Hinton, a nice late middle age sort of woman. Another whose gender I'd always been confused on.
1:00 411 Christopher Moore mystery bookstore, a funny funny guy.
2:00 614 Walter Mosley mysterious galaxy - his plane was late or something and he was a no-show


3:30 Storyopolis Michael Hague, did wonderful sketches in every book, but took his time, it was well after 4:30 by the time we were done.

3:10 Target Stage - Julie Andrews - didn't even try the line was giant last year, but she did stop by Storyopolis while we were getting sketches from Hague. Target security emptied the stall for her, and then blocked all view and stood around while she was back in there doing something...
Then Bain and Aric stood around one of the exits and passed out a few flyers.
Bushed, but it beats sanding :)
Shelley, Bain & Aric
First signature of the day 10:00 #411 Frank Beddor mystery bookstore
Wandered a bit until 11:30 513 Hilary Knight - Eloise artist at every picture tells a story, I'd always thought Hilary Knight was a woman, but he's an elderly english man. Polite with a nice signatues, but no sketching.
11:00 #411 Robert Crais mystery bookstore, skipped the mile long Mary Higgins Clark line and just got Crais.
12:30 South "X" PANEL 1102 11:30 AM Fiction: Writing Across Genres
Ms. Francesca Lia Block,
Ms. S.E. Hinton, a nice late middle age sort of woman. Another whose gender I'd always been confused on.
1:00 411 Christopher Moore mystery bookstore, a funny funny guy.
2:00 614 Walter Mosley mysterious galaxy - his plane was late or something and he was a no-show
3:30 Storyopolis Michael Hague, did wonderful sketches in every book, but took his time, it was well after 4:30 by the time we were done.
3:10 Target Stage - Julie Andrews - didn't even try the line was giant last year, but she did stop by Storyopolis while we were getting sketches from Hague. Target security emptied the stall for her, and then blocked all view and stood around while she was back in there doing something...
Then Bain and Aric stood around one of the exits and passed out a few flyers.
Bushed, but it beats sanding :)
Friday, April 27, 2007
Even yet more sanding
Thursday, April 26, 2007
a Sandy day
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
and there was Sand(ing) as far as the eye could see...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Rout, Sand, Repeat
Last but one of 365 shelves routed.
Then there were none.
Aric finished routing the shelves for most of the bookcases, while Bain sanded nearly a quarter of them.

A fairly repetitive day! but quite a bit was accomplished, even if it only looks like we moved pile of boards from one stack to another ;)
And my hearing will probably recover eventually...
And my hearing will probably recover eventually...
Monday, April 23, 2007
Rout, Sand
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Chop-chop
Went and got a few things at Home Depot in the morning, drill bits, router parts, sandpaper, etc. Arrived at the store around 11:00,. Bain cut wood until 6:45 and finally finished all the main cuts, with some minimal assistance from Aric, 427 shelves, 61 tops, 61 footers, 61 nailers, 142 uprights.







Greg got his router table set up for the very first time.

All the sawdust shows up the spiderwebs
We did a test build on one bookcase and it looks like the design is fine. Aric routed a few shelves, but then we built a smaller table for the router to make it work easier. That weird electrical problem is gone again.
All the cut wood.
Greg got his router table set up for the very first time.
All the sawdust shows up the spiderwebs
All the cut wood.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Wood ! aah the Wood!
Went to Chris Nezzer's home and got a bunch of tools in the morning. Finished cleaning up the lights and putting the covers back on. That strange electrial problem is back, exactly as before - no idea what's up with that.
The Wood arrived around 12:30, thankfully there was no rain so we didn't need to rush it inside. 274 1"x10"x12' boards, plus 109 4'x8' hardboard backing, plus sundry other pieces. We got them inside by about 3:30-4:00. Then started cutting. Bain did all of the saw work.


We got all the upright 8' pieces done, and all the tops and 1/4 of the shelves cut by 7:00.
The Wood arrived around 12:30, thankfully there was no rain so we didn't need to rush it inside. 274 1"x10"x12' boards, plus 109 4'x8' hardboard backing, plus sundry other pieces. We got them inside by about 3:30-4:00. Then started cutting. Bain did all of the saw work.
We got all the upright 8' pieces done, and all the tops and 1/4 of the shelves cut by 7:00.
Friday, April 20, 2007
Ready to start bookcases
Rain all day. Finished cleaning up the demo debris. Finished patching the carpet. Did some touch-up paint on the walls, and light covers. Started to make the jig table for bookcases. Cleaned some of the lights. Paul Rosse came by and dropped off a compressor and nail-gun, and Dave Smith's cross-cut saw, and we got that set up. Chris Nezzer came and wired up the new lights. The mysterious electrical problem was gone - likely SCE had a wire down in the wind the other day.
The wood for the bookcases should arrive between 12-5 on tomorrow, Saturday.
The wood for the bookcases should arrive between 12-5 on tomorrow, Saturday.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Carpet patching
Recycled some junk books :( Figured out how to do the carpet patching and cut the pieces and started gluing. Got some information about the signage.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
More this and that
Picked up 4th load of books from La Palma. Cleaned up some more of the debris. Bain got the wiring set up for the new light, but not yet connected.


Aric got some advertising in the Albertsons register tape set up. Chris Nezzer came by and took a look at the electrical problem, and found many interesting things, but not a solution... yet. Greg Arnold came by and put a second coat of paint on the ceiling, it's looking quite nice now.
Aric got some advertising in the Albertsons register tape set up. Chris Nezzer came by and took a look at the electrical problem, and found many interesting things, but not a solution... yet. Greg Arnold came by and put a second coat of paint on the ceiling, it's looking quite nice now.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Clean up and fix up
Went and got another load of books from La Palma in the morning. Spent the morning shopping for bits and pieces of stuff needed. Bain got the lights up and installed, but not yet wired. Then we tried to find out how to patch the carpet.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Getting Ready
Went to Home Depot and ordered the $5k of wood for the bookcases, then cleaned up some at the store. Shelley & I went to get a 2nd load of books from La Puente.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Start of fix up
Shelley & I went and got a load of books. Greg Arnold spray painted the ceiling, with help from Bain. We salvaged a bunch of 2x4s. Last night we purchased two more florescent light boxes to install.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
2nd Day of Demolition
Friday, April 13, 2007
1st Day Demolition
BEFORE
Out the Front Door.Me, my Dad Bain, and David Vendl got 5 of the 6 walls down, most of them taken apart and half of it trashed.
AFTER
Bain doing demo.Sunday we'll look into patching the carpet & painting the ceiling.
By Monday or Tuesday we should be ready to start building bookcases.
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