Month: September 2025

Two Funny Internets from Kathleen

This pretty much sums up the Roomba conundrum.

2-3 days per week as I’m moving furniture out of the Roomba’s way I marvel that I would rather do that than spend five minutes sweeping. Even though putting things up and taking them down takes longer than five minutes.

As for this, someone on the radio commented that Google’s search function has given not-great results for the last year while they pour money into AI.

It was one of those moments when someone’s words illuminate the thing that had been low-key bugging me, but I had no words for.

Murphy Bed: Downside of the Built-in Lights

I really like the Murphy bed’s built-in lights when they are on and I am reading. However, they have a significant design flaw.

You can see my jury-rigged solution: part of the packaging from the Ikea pillowcases I bought. It doesn’t entirely solve the problem; it just lessens it.

The button to turn on the lights has a very bright blue light that shines regardless of the on/off status of the lights themselves.

From the future, I can say that the second layer of solution involves me leaning the memory foam pillows against the headboard to cover the light. There’s a void between the mattress and the wall, so the pillows sit at an angle.

That means I can’t really use them as pillows, just as light blockers.

Other than that situation, I’m really enjoying my Murphy bed.

A Surprise Delivery

I was still in the holding pattern waiting for my Murphy Bed, when I got a call on a Saturday morning, asking if they could delivery that very day.

They could!

While I waited, I took another round of photos.

Formerly the bed corner, this will soon be a corner with a cabinet.

The left side is the last view of some of the wall; the bed will block it.

A corner shot. I have hung two of my grandmother’s clothing creations as decoration.

And a view of this corner. It will soon have one more Billy bookcase in view.

And the bed is delivered and installed!

Doesn’t it look great?

I now have a big open space in the middle of my room.

I also learned that when you forget to put the feet down on the Murphy bed, the bed is rather heavy and will break your toenail.

I’m excited to sleep in my new bed!

Valance Update

I have attached the rod-grabbers to the lining of the valance, and hung it up to see how it looks. I am, at this point, regretting not getting a lining that was more in line with the color of the valance.

But things seem to be fine.

Laying out the official material and positioning the birds.

Then I got distracted by the bonus project, which is to take the additional birds and make decorative diamonds. I had enough material to add a matching diamond to each bird. These will eventually be wall decor.