Preparing the Nest

It's been six months since Wendy & I bought our house, and after me living here that long it's beginning to look like we're starting to think about moving in. We've got a couple dozen pictures framed, but they're all on the floor, since yours truly doesn't want to put holes into the walls until they're all paid for. That should only be twenty years or so, but by then we might have the technology to hang pictures in a non-destructive manner, or have enough projectors mounted on opposite walls to achieve the same effect. The attentive reader might find it odd that I'm more comfortable mounting electronics than hanging pictures, and the reason has to do with a preference for screws over nails. I've had more successes with screws: they're more adjustable, they don't bend, and they have a built-in undo mechanism. Nails are more of an art, and seem to be much more dangerous in my experience, what with the sharp point and the blunt object moving at high speeds.

It'd be much nicer to have pegboard walls in every room, or velcro or lego, for that matter, so that everything could be hanged and rehanged just as easily, without having to repaint. In case you're wondering, I'm even less skillful with liuqids than with sharp objects, and the possibility of having to repair a wall when one of us decides a picture needs to move makes me even more hesitant.

Eventually, and likely sooner than later, the danger of tripping over one of the picture frames will exceed the danger of one of them falling off the wall on one of us, and whichever of us ends up in charge of picture hanging will get to work on the implementation phase of that project. For now, though, there are plenty of pictures on the computer, and since we spend more time looking at those than walls anyway, it all works itself out.