there's two chores down

I've been waiting until all the moving was done (and the post-move cleaning had not) to take out my two window A/C units and put them away. That's done, and the cats have two more windows to sit in (plus we all have that much more light).

I also got fed up this morning with the permanent downward tilt that my cooker has always suffered from. Ascertaining it had extendable feet, I found an ingenious tool of leverage (a sloped wooden cat scratching board), got out my level, and proceeded to lift it into a position from which I could (with the help of a pair of pliers) extend the feet! It is now level, and oil does not pool along one edge of the pan when I saute or fry things!

Of course I also got a clear picture of how filthy the parts of the cooker one never looks at are. The kitchen is going to take a LOT of cleaning.

While watching the dismal DC United game from Saturday last night, I cleaned up some more figures (from the Khurasan Miniatures Felid warriors scifi line) and prepared them for undercoating. gr_c17 and Phil the Teacher are way ahead of me in preparing for the the release of the new Tomorrow's War rules from Ambush Alley. I must ready the battle circles of the felids for battle!

I also took the first step in executing a purge of the game collection, namely identifying ones that I haven't played, so I can try them and either keep them or sell them, and sorting out the ones that I've played enough to know I probably won't ever play again.

Now, to do the same things with books...

Oh, speaking of books:

33/50: The Sultan's Seal by Jenny White. A mystery set in late Ottoman Empire Istanbul. Slow to start but gets more interesting toward the end, and it gives the reader at least a little introduction to the culture and politics of the late Empire. Not great, but not bad.

Guest of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden
Hostile Skies: A Combat History of the American Air Service in World War I by James J. Hudson
Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah's Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan by Nicholas Jubber
Understanding China by John Bryan Starr
The Williamite Wars in Ireland, 1688-1691 by John Childs
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775 by Thomas Desjardins
Theoretical Criminology by George B. Vold et al.
Knights of the Cross; or, Krzyzacy by Henryk Sienkiewicz