Here’s an updated PDF map of the new Tiny Fun House. My measurements may not be perfect, and my Inkscape skills are weak at best, so I can’t guarantee results. But it looks like our new place is around 420 square feet, which raises the question: what’s our new slogan going to be? We’re...
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4156|500 Melissa’s album from San Diego 3887|500 Mark and I go to Coney Island (plus some moving)
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Here’s a fun project for the whole family: redesign the (old) Tiny Fun House.* I meant to pass this along back when I put it together in April, but since I just found it languishing on my desktop, here it is: Tiny Fun House: The PDF. If you come up with some revolutionary design...
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This is what I look at all day. And I think everything in this picture is useful to my craft. Counter-clockwise from bottom left: reference books; a writing talisman from my cousin’s travels; external hard drives; cable modem; router; amplifier/sub-woofer; wine coaster/opener; a Virginia white wine and a red wine blend; satellite speaker.
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All the time. And I love it. Actually, my back was killing me from sitting on the couch all the time while my old office chair was on the fritz. This one is way more comfortable than the one in my Reston office too, so hey. This is a good thing; in the TFH,...
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After my earlier post on our dying office chair, some faithful TFH readers (my parents) saw fit to give me a new one for Christmas. The real one isn’t quite this regal, but it is nice. BONUS QUIZ: The tiny office chair pictured here is modeled after a full-size chair “famous” for two reasons....
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I’ve had this roly chair since high school, or early college maybe. It has suffered through a number of moves, Knoxville to Alexandria, Alexandria to Syracuse, Syracuse to Knoxville (shoved into shed), Knoxville to Arlington (Shirlington), Arlington (Shirlington) to Arlington (Fairlington), Arlington (Fairlington) to New York. In the process of most of those moves,...
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Is it really a corner office if your building is immediately adjacent to another? Probably not, unless you count our fireplace as a window (yes, we have a fireplace. And it is tiny too). Still, here’s yesterday’s view out my (home) office window. The plant was on a field trip. It normally resides on...
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