Year two of occupancy of the New Castle has been a period of forging ahead in getting the Arsenal established in it's new digs and engaging in expansion activities as needed and possible under the budget, and the ruthless exploitation of serf labor when we can nab the slippery little devil.
In the beginning was the Great Void.
Which became the Arms Room. Which then got loaded with gurls, er, guns.
Which brings us to the current state of play.
The brain-bucket collection is finally in place, albeit outside the Arms Room, there being no more room (based on planned expansions in the Arms Room). The arms library is in place, and the Stacks of Argghhh! are finally unloaded from the boxes and onto the shelves (this was an area where we worked the Serf to muscle failure). Denizen Ry is the one who unloaded the stacks at the Auld Castle, boxed up the books, schlepped it over to the New Castle, assembled the shelves and brought the books to the stacks area. The Armorer then deigned to indulge in some physical labor and unpacked the books and stacked 'em broken down by fiction/non-fiction. Implementation of some form of Dewey decimal-like system to organize them awaits the Armorer's next burst of energy, currently scheduled for some time in FY15.
In the beginning was the Great Void.
Which became the Arms Room. Which then got loaded with gurls, er, guns.
Which brings us to the current state of play.
The brain-bucket collection is finally in place, albeit outside the Arms Room, there being no more room (based on planned expansions in the Arms Room). The arms library is in place, and the Stacks of Argghhh! are finally unloaded from the boxes and onto the shelves (this was an area where we worked the Serf to muscle failure). Denizen Ry is the one who unloaded the stacks at the Auld Castle, boxed up the books, schlepped it over to the New Castle, assembled the shelves and brought the books to the stacks area. The Armorer then deigned to indulge in some physical labor and unpacked the books and stacked 'em broken down by fiction/non-fiction. Implementation of some form of Dewey decimal-like system to organize them awaits the Armorer's next burst of energy, currently scheduled for some time in FY15.
But the organizational schema, that I will use.
For the fiction, alpha by author by genre.
snaring,enticing, motivating all that professional help.Amazing what the promise of a couple beers can accomplish.
Lessee, for the Dewey classifications a quick scan indicates I'd need the following:
Admittedly, some of those classifications would be one or two books deep. Others would span shelves. So I'd probably merge under the 100s, vice going to the 10 level.
If I get to use your back-porch range and get a free run of the arsenal while I am there, you got yourself a deal with the effective day sometime in early fall :o)
JoeC - bequeth your book collection to some worthy organization and they would come and take it off your children's hands...
Rey - while I'm sure the budget doesn't support it, I'd love to know how much they're asking. A twin 5/38 would look good out by the flagpoles...
Being in the military, the government always paid to move my books, which made it easier to keep them to hand. That and the fact that it wasn't until relatively late in my career that I really had any significant household goods kept me under the weight allowance.
Then the Army assigned me to Fort Sill and as a military history instructor, and I used the Arsenal as props in class.
Suddenly the entire gun and ordnance collection, not to mention the military history library, qualified as "PBE" or 'professional books and equipment." And then didn't count against my weight allowance.
Which didn't matter, since even with the PBE allowance I didn't exceed the weight allowance, but it was fun dealing with Transportation and the mover on the issue. The mover especially detested the serial number inventory requirement.
I've read all the books in the basement. The books upstairs are on the reading list.
The blog has cut into my reading, as maintaining it and entertaining all y'all is cut from the discretionary time SWWBO allows me.
Of course, you have to pay taxes to get the write off in the first place.
i know the feeling.
petrol payment was most appreciated.
The chickens suffered as there were no leftovers for them in the morning.
They instituted a new Rule of Serfing after this: no getting sick. ;(
Ry
Actually, it was a twin 3"/50 mount in a gunhouse. Which works pretty well, as it is easier to transport and doesn't need a below decks ammo handling room.
You are SO deprived.