11/20/07

I guess I could ‘splain the drawing from yesterday. What happened was I sent that to Spiderman, along with the rant, so he could peruse it and give me feedback on what I had in mind. I didn’t expect him to post it with the rant. I don’t care but it was a bit of a surprise to see it there. So here’s what I'm thinking. Basically, the big rectangle on the bottom is the existing house. Above that is the shop I'd like to build. It is way bigger than I actually need but still not as big as I could build. The slanty line at the very top is the property line and the horizontal line is as far as I can build and stay square to the house. The circle with a cross in the middle is a pecan tree in the back yard that I have to take into account. The rounded square is my A/C compressor and the little square attached to the house is the electric meter. The reason for the “L” shape of the shop is twofold. 1) Snaking the trailer out a door and missing the pecan tree will be difficult if the door is all the way to the back of the shop. B) The city didn’t like the idea of building a deck on top of the shop, so that will be a combination carport and deck. I'm debating stairs. Part of me thinks a combination stile/stair thingy is a good idea. I'll ‘splain that in a minute. Another part of me doesn’t want stairs going up from the front of the house to a deck outside my bedroom. Here’s what I mean by “combination stile/stair thingy.” From the front of the house a flight of stairs would go up to a landing over the A/C compressor. From that landing, Juan can either continue up to the deck or go back down to the back yard. It’s genius I tells ya! I probably won’t do that though. No, I'll probably build the shop just far enough south of the A/C unit that my fat ass can walk past it. Back to the drawing, the two things to the left with squiggles slashing across them are the existing driveway on the bottom and the new driveway I'd have poured and cut into the curb on top. The squiggles are so I didn’t have to draw the drives to scale since scale doesn’t really matter when they are both straight shots to the street. Oh, speaking of scale, I just had a thought. Those rectangles representing the car’s footprints are NOT to scale now that I think about it. The scale of the drawing from which I “stole” those was different. Let’s see, the scale of the building drawing is 12 pixels equal one foot whereas the other drawing was 10 pixels per foot. Therefore the cars are too small on that drawing? Or are they too big? Oops, my bad either way. So, disregard the size of the cars in that picture but look at the locations where I'm thinking they’d be parked, more or less, probably. Actually, you can ignore that as well because where George is parked will most likely be the machine shop, tool storage, workbench, welding, and general fabrication area now that I think about it. George will probably go where Mr. Wiggly is shown and he’d move to the spot called “trailer” in that drawing. The trailer would get parked by, and chained to, the pecan tree in front of Mr. Wiggly. Of course having the trailer back there behind the shop will make it nigh un-stealable, would I really need to chain it up? We’ll see. Well, I think I've said about all I'm going to say today. I think I'll take a nap.