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Re: Noooooo!!
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Wed, 6 Nov 2002 06:05:33 GMT
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Thats really horrid. :-(
I just sorted all my small technic parts. I *hate* sorting small parts.
I've also done the "step on the edge of a tub and send the bricks flying"
thing.
Not fun.
I feel for you.
-Jon
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"Hendo (John P. Henderson)" <hendo@valyance.com> wrote in message
news:H53FM7.4yJ@lugnet.com...
> So there I was, after a long day of work and a couple hours of housework,
> when I decided I should settle into a few good hours of building. I've • had
> this idea for a spaceship for a while (the first of those for a new • faction,
> so I was excited to explore a radical (for me) design). So I settled into
> building.
>
> ...As some of you might have caught, I spent a few months earlier in the
> year organizing my pieces into about ten computer paper boxes, mostly by
> color for basic elements, and a few boxes for speciallized elements. And
> for really small items I had used some cardboard trays that originated in
> some TLC packaging of long ago. The process of sorting was among the most
> tedious I've endured in relation to this hobby, and it was with great
> reservation that I decided to even do it (after over twenty years of never
> sorting). But once it was done, I reaped immediate benefit. My castle
> projects during the spring and summer were completed in a fraction of the
> time I had estimated. My first attempt at a Moonbase went together in • just
> two or three days. And best of all, I new I would never have to sort
> anything other than new sets again...
>
> So there I am, building away, with the various boxes opened and positioned
> around my living room coffee table. The ship was taking shape nicely. • But
> my tray of 1x1 plates had been out of reach, so I had moved it to balance • on
> the corner of a box filled with gray blocks. Then I twisted to reach into
> the box of blue blocks. Suddenly I heard a crash, and I didn't need to • turn
> around to know I had bumped the precariously perched tray of 1x1 plates. • I
> stood up to survey the damage and saw the 1x1 plates (mostly the shades of
> gray that come from Mosaics) strewn in throughout the box of gray blocks.
> (Ah, you say, at least everything landed in a box.) But then, in my • dismay,
> I stepped backward, only to discover my heel in sudden contact with the
> corner of yet another box! Unable to stop the momentum, all I could do • was
> wince as the catapult-like movement of the box underfoot sent *all* of my
> black bricks scattering across my living room, some mixing into other • boxes,
> some falling on the rug, and others bouncing under the furniture.
>
> The sorting! The finding! The resorting! The hoping to high heaven the
> cat doesn't find the pieces that I surely missed! Ah the tragedy!
>
> And so it is that I find myself writing "Noooooo!!" on Lugnet at 3:00am...
>
> Sigh. The things I do for my spaceships... :)
>
> -Hendo
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| you know, I did the exact same thing with my technic pieces the other day- I sort my <small> technic pieces in spice boxes- you know, the sort that have 6 compartments, 1 lid, and can stack? Not a nice feeling, finishing sorting, and then having to (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.general)
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| So there I was, after a long day of work and a couple hours of housework, when I decided I should settle into a few good hours of building. I've had this idea for a spaceship for a while (the first of those for a new faction, so I was excited to (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.general)
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