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Comfy Chair

When Ryn visited Twin Oaks, she sent me a genuine Twin Oaks hammock chair. It is made with rope and oak. It is quite handsome looking. But sitting in the box, it didn’t look very comfortable.  When I got it hung, it still didn’t look very comfortable. But when I sat in it, I came to appreciate the genius of the person who designed it. This is a very comfortable chair. I sat in it for a couple of hours today while I was breaking our new website. Thanks for the very cool chair, Ryn.

The thing I didn’t like about the chair was their suggestion for how to hang it. They provided a large lag screw and suggested drilling a deep 9/16″ hole in the overhead joist. My joists are “two bys”, which are about 1 3/4″ wide. I didn’t want to remove all that material from the bottom of the joist because the bottom is in tension and needs all of it’s material to keep from pulling apart. My solution was to get a couple of eye bolts and drill a hole through the center of the joist. (One can remove great gobs of material from the center of a joist without affecting its strength.) Just to get some overkill, I used two adjacent joists to split the load. And I used carbides with screw-closures, which are much stronger than S-hooks and also keep the forces aligned with the center of the chain. Now my comfy chair will never come down, and neither will the deck.

That bit about breaking our website … I added a new tool, called a plugin. I decided I could edit the plugin to make it work better. Only when I was done, the site stopped working. I couldn’t fix my mistake because — well, did I mention the site wasn’t working? I finally went into the server directly with ftp and deleted the plugin. Problem solved. But for a little while there, I wasn’t thinking at all about how comfy my new chair is.

We’re leaving in just a few days. The plans are set. The suitcases are ready to pack. We’re looking forward to a great time.

I hope everybody is doing well.