More About LostWoods and Me
Almost through another Friday at work. I took a break from real work to make a drawing of our house/garage/shop/stud room for you all. It is NOT to scale, but I tried to make it fairly close to reality. I didn’t draw a floor plan of the house — much too ambitious for me! 
Click on it for a larger view — and if the picture manager you’re using to view the drawing will allow you to, you might also want to zoom in to read the labels better.
Briefly, the house is a big rectangle — two story — connected to a one story room that is our cat room (with three closets — not drawn) and a utility room. From there we go out to the garage. The garage sits perpendicular to the house. The shop/stud room is connected to both the house and the garage, but you have to walk through the garage to get to it. Or go outside through the back door and the back yard.
The black lines are solid walls — or walls with windows. The orange lines are doors. The pink lines are the garage doors. The red lines are the chain link dividers in the stud area/shop. There is a window in the center of the wall (in the center stud area) that opens to allow access to a 10′ x 18′ outside run.
Rangashrii asked what kind of shop we have. It’s not a shop in the sense of a store - shop that sells things. Rather, it’s a workshop for repairing things, storing tools, etc. At the moment, it’s mostly just a jumble of stuff stacked all over the workbench — something I intend to remedy this weekend. There are also floor to ceiling shelves on the one side of the shop that we use for storage. Currently each stud area is 10′ x 10′. Once we’ve redone it, each stud area will be slightly smaller (8′ x 10′) because we need to carve out a space for the dogs to stay at night. They’ll still have plenty of room to play and stretch — and when only one boy is in residence, he’ll have run of both sections.
As I’m writing this, it occurs to me that many of you probably have no idea what work I really do — other than being a crazy cat lady, that is! Both Ken and I are computer geeks. He does mostly mainframe network engineering. I have done all kinds of things in the computer world but am currently working on UNIX systems as a system admin, as well as being the Backup Goddess. That is, I am responsible for making sure that 400-600 backups run correctly each night. We back up Windows, Novell, MS Exchange, AIX, and Linux servers, as well as Oracle and MS SQL databases, along with an assortment of other application data. I also do restores, adhoc archival backups, and am involved in our business continuity area. And when I’m not doing all that, I am learning more about storage administration (having done that in the mainframe world — I now am learning the UNIX and SAN side of things) in preparation for taking on a larger role in that area. For fun (???) I create and maintain website for some of my cat breeder friends. Gee, aren’t you thrilled to know all that about me? LOL!
One last note before I close for the day. Little Miss Aviendha gained a whopping 1.1 oz yesterday! Rand gained another .9 oz. Talia must have really good milk this time around. I briefly thought I’d won the war of where the babies would live. Talia did not move them all day yesterday, nor did she move them in the evening. But just when I thought she might actually get to come out of her room, she moved them back under the bed over night. Sigh…