Nothing Happens At Ten

After yesterday’s post, a certain family member, who has a facility for things mechanical, did not believe the level as it was placed on the new shelf, and demanded that we do the marble test to see if the shelf is, indeed, level.

So I went down to the basement to look for one, but alas I have lost my marbles, so I ended up with this:

That is a 40 mm celluloid plastic spheroid designed for an upper-class, Victorian after-dinner parlour game (it’s a Ping Pong ball).

The ball was dutifully placed on the shelf……. where it did not roll…. as demonstrated in the accompanying photo.

Q.E.D.

(it is amazing what you can do with a camera when the shutter speed is set to 1/1000th of a second).

Check one off the list. Today I finished one of my Old Retired Guy chores. I put up a shelf in the laundry, and I did it myshelf. Check it out.

That thing sitting on the shelf is my level. Here’s a closer look.

The board is a closet shelf that we salvaged from the old house before we tore it down. Considering that the old house was built in 1946, 47, 48 (which involves a story I will have to tell later), it has a lot of experience being a shelf.

Here is the top of the shelf.

Nice patina. And check out that level.

Yowza! Not bad for a software guy, n’est-ce pas ?