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Oh the joys of construction work.

We're having construction work being done (the heating system in our house needs to be replaced), and I find that I'm all out of practice ignoring construction work sounds. That used to be much, much better in the days I was digging more, with all the construction site noise right beside you day in, day out, so you'd get used to tuning it out.

Though admittedly it's something else again when it is in the same building, as it's not only the noise, but also the vibrations and the workers going in and out the door. Which is visible from my workspace and adds to the distractions. Usually there's not much traffic down our garden path, or much noise here in the quarter, so it really helps me to appreciate even more the circumstances I can normally enjoy!

Speaking of enjoyable things - I finally got on top of my email pile again, and things feel more or less caught up, though the next deadlines, I'm sure, are already conspiring to creep up on me. While I have more of an opportunity to take care of long-overdue things, I'm quite happy to do so. And in the course of this I finally found a programme that will do the angle measurements I need for my spinning documentation in the way that I want them: several of them permanently shown in the picture, with a label with the angle beside it. And it's even possible to lock in the angle tool so I don't have to select it again for every single measurement, plus there's a list of measurements and the automatic calculation of the average. Yay!

The programme is called Digimizer, and like so many good and helpful research tools, it is completely free. (ImageJ will also measure angles and label them, but I haven't been able to trick it into keeping the first angle when doing the second one. Just now, while doing this post, I find that there's a new version of the programme, ImageJ2, as well as an offspin called Fiji - and I might check them out for other analysis purposes.)
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Harma on Donnerstag, 06. Juli 2017 11:50

Since this spring, I tell every-one who has construction work done in there homes that they do need to add something with the date on it when they "loose" or hide something in the cracks of the house. Helps future archaeologists. ;^D

Since this spring, I tell every-one who has construction work done in there homes that they do need to add something with the date on it when they "loose" or hide something in the cracks of the house. Helps future archaeologists. ;^D
Catherine Raymond (website) on Freitag, 07. Juli 2017 04:01

You have my sympathy. We had to have our furnace replaced this winter--on the coldest, snowiest day of the year. We were without heat for about 6 hours. Brrr.

You have my sympathy. We had to have our furnace replaced this winter--on the coldest, snowiest day of the year. We were without heat for about 6 hours. Brrr.
Katrin on Freitag, 07. Juli 2017 14:03

Yes, that is nasty. Back in the age of dinosaurs, when I went to school, my school decided to replace the furnace and the windows at the same time. In winter. In one of the coldest areas of Germany... in one of the coldest winters since the 1940s.

That was fun. Not. So I'm very happy that our landlords decided to replace the furnace in the heat of summer, to avoid having to do a rush job in the middle of winter in case it finally breaks down completely! A bit of construction site noise is a small thing to suffer for that.

Yes, that is nasty. Back in the age of dinosaurs, when I went to school, my school decided to replace the furnace and the windows at the same time. In winter. In one of the coldest areas of Germany... in one of the coldest winters since the 1940s. That was fun. Not. So I'm very happy that our landlords decided to replace the furnace in the heat of summer, to avoid having to do a rush job in the middle of winter in case it finally breaks down completely! A bit of construction site noise is a small thing to suffer for that.
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