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Re: Noooooo!!
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Wed, 6 Nov 2002 06:35:19 GMT
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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 do it all again
because some clumsy dolt (i.e., me!) has stepped on the box of 1 wide
bushings and sent them flying e!! itv gets a bite annoying, lookringy unwder
furhniture and in oteher boxres for tiney little technic pieces.
I really feel for you.
BTW, ca!n you find the word "everywhere"? I seem to have lost it in my bad
treading.
-Matthew
In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:
> 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
> --
> | The Shipyard - http://zemi.net/shipyard
> | The Moonbase Project - http://www.classic-space.com/moonbase/start/
> | My Lego Creations - http://zemi.net/lego
> | Attack of the Bricks - http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=jpalmer
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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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| 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 -- | The Shipyard - (URL) The Moonbase (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.general)
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