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  • We All Key Ya For Ikea

    We live in a proper house now, and with that change came some extra floor space for furniture. I decided last week that what my room needs is a “proper” display shelf. Cue some puttering around on Ikea’s website and a chunk of money gone from my bank account, and… well:

    Unexpected benefit of the design: It doesn’t block the switched power outlet so I can use the light switch by the door to turn on a lamp sitting atop the new cabinet. Sweet!

    As usual, Ikea does such a smart job providing visual instructions that even an easily confused duck like myself can follow along with relative ease. At one point I needed Vyx to help get the side glass panels into place (absolutely a two-person job, the instructions said so) but even that didn’t take very long. Mind you I also needed her to make sense of the instruction for getting the metal top piece into place. It’s a good thing she’s so smart or I’d still be at the build an hour or so later.

    I thought I was being clever by not hauling the entire shipping box up the stairs before starting the build, and it wasn’t actually a bad idea to take each piece up as needed… but I absolutely did not save myself the workload by piecing it out. I still had to shift almost exactly the same amount of mass (minus the cardboard, which weighs little) plus I had to climb and descend the stairs that many more times.

    In other words: Owie. My back hates me right now.

    Worth it, though?

    From top to bottom and left to right: Foam pickaxe reading “Remember Tunnel 17” from the Digger comic, Tolo brand rubber ducky, plush Teto from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, plush Kafka “Creation” (a cat-cake… thing) from Honkai Star Rail, Lizard Doggo from Satisfactory, Quaggan from Guild Wars 2, and Ryo-ohki from Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki.

    Yeah. I think so.

  • Tolo on a Gray Blanket

    Tolo on a Gray Blanket

    I know, three years without posting anything at all is basically writing off the blog entirely. I know! It’s just that… well, my life got down to a certain routine and that meant not many opportunities to place ducks onto things and take pictures of them.

    And then 2020 hit. Well then!

    A few months ago I bought a “light tent” apparatus with the idea of doing a “glamour shots” series of pictures of the various ducks. What you see above is one of the early tests. Other pictures from the series will appear here over time. (Yes, expect a lot of “X on a Y blanket” post titles for the foreseeable future. Sorry about that. Some content is better than no content, yes?)

  • Tolo on a Glass of Orange Juice

    Tolo on a Glass of Orange Juice

    I like orange juice, okay?

    The Cardcaptor Sakura DVD to the right reminds me that there’s a new series of CCS coming out next year. I can hardly wait!

    Originally posted to social media accounts on December 14th, 2014.

  • Tolo on a Very Small Bus Stop Bench

    Tolo on a Very Small Bus Stop Bench

    I understand why TriMet went with these tiny “benches” at some bus stops around town, but they seem so small that they’re almost not worth the bother. Almost.

    Also I wish I’d taken more of these pictures with the Tolo duck. I’m not just saying that because of its resemblance to the Florentijn Hofman floating duck, either. It’s a good-looking duck! Unfortunately, Tolo’s one of the larger members of my flock and that means specifically planning a trip around such a photo session.

    Originally posted to social media accounts on August 14th, 2014.

  • Tolo on a MAX Map Display

    Tolo on a MAX Map Display

    Here is the start of my project to pull in the archived My Duck On Stuff entries I’ve made elsewhere… along with a few that never made it to social media.

    This one went up on Twitter on the 12th of June, 2014.

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