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[athersgeo]

• Re-arrange work desk, move assorted 'puters, DUST (!!), water the plants, vacuum and generally spruce the place up


• Clean the bins (!!!)


• Clean out car, INCLUDING the crap under the driver's seat (no, I have no idea how it got under there...)


• OU CMA 1 + finish up week two's work


• Post valentine's gifts [yes, I know the're going to be late]


• Chapter Five of A Chinese Adventure


• Write up Trailer: The Movie and Demon Hunter for Strictly Southworth and finish implementing the new database stuff


• If The Selena Incident's arrived, watch and write up - well, both copies have arrived, so I've got no excuse for not doing this one


• Write spec for work

ETA

• Cook dinner tonight


• Sort out pile of gym kit sitting in the hall


• Sort out assorted piles of CDs

It's been quite a productive day so far.

Rather annoyingly, I've found a possible place I could move out to. I say this is annoying for the following reasons:
1) Ground floor bedrooms - who on earth thinks that's a good idea?!
2) Size + privacy - the one bedroom flat isn't big enough to metaphorically swing a cat, AND, there are no internal doors, apart from the one on the bathroom.
3) No baths - OK, I could live without that, but I do LIKE to be able to take an hour long bath!
4) No parking - but they have a bike shed... WTF? Do they honestly think all these flats are going to be bought by people who don't drive? Or are they assuming that people at the cheaper end of the scale can't afford a car?
5) If I bought on of these, I'd have to go to work via the ring road - if you think my commute (with it's 18 sets of trafficlights!) is bad now, wait until you got to hear me on the subject of the ring road...

So. Looks like my parents will have me around for a little while yet, then!

Comments

[germankitty]

Yay, someone else like me who doesn't care for the currently-oh-so-popular "open-plan living"! I thought I was all alone in that ...

Didn't you know that, as a "young professional", you're supposed to LIKE no doors?!? *grins*

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

I don't mind open plan, when it's a nice big space to plan and you can separate it up properly. But when you have a wall cordening off the bedroom, but no door - well, what's the point?!

[germankitty]

Um, yeah. :) Do a big browse at Homebase/B&Q?

[kahva.livejournal.com]

1) Ground floor bedrooms - who on earth thinks that's a good idea?!

{Raises hand} My whole apartment is on the ground floor/first floor, bedroom, bathroom and all, and it works wonderfully. No breaking my back, legs, knees or ankles having to go up stairs just to go to bed.

Of course, I do have to climb up two sets of stairs just to get to my building at the top of the hill...

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Apartments on the ground floor are one thing; *bedrooms* on the ground floor - with the living room etc up stairs - makes no sense whatsoever.

[squirrela.livejournal.com]

I'd agree to that for most folks, but I do know some people find it easier (well, that's as long as there are enough rooms downstairs to allow for a lounge (bathroom, Kitchen...) down there as well) as it does mean that if they find stairs difficult they don't have to go up them at all

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Nope, that's not the intention here. Two of the designs, there isn't room for a lounge downstairs and in all the multifloor designs, the kitchen is specifically built on the upper floor.

It's a bloody stupid design - and given the area of Bristol these places are being built in, it's a heck of a security risk. It means that you *can't* leave your bedroom window open during the day, and you'd probably be silly to have it open at night.

[kahva.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh, I get you now. I thought you were talking about everything being on the ground floor, like my place is, my bad. :(