Because I can't afford the well-designed LEGO kit, I have down-loaded their instructions from LEGO.com and am using my vast reservoir of bricks to build a multi-hued version. Ahh... it's something to do. Idle hands, devil's work and all that secular crap.
Now... I previously separated all my LEGO by color - which I thought at the time would be a good idea because there are literally hundreds of different sized pieces for each of the brick colors. In many cases, I have gone a step farther and separated similarly-shaped pieces...
But I work on the kit at night when everyone has gone to sleep, and I do so in the living room, which is horribly lit. And I work on the couch. With a small rickety coffee table, as the furniture we own doesn't quite fit in the living room... it was purchased for a larger house we owned before.
So... it's a long, drawn-out journey to find the proper pieces that fit... Ugh... I need a 12-stud long x 1-stud wide plate piece. Preferably in tan, to go across a span in the middle of the building.
Well... I don't have one. And I actually need two of them. So I spend an hour going through my bricks looking for something that might make an adequate replacement.
Oh yeah... it's under the roof, so who cares what it looks like? So I built a wall holding up 4 x 1 plates - in blue. What the hell... it works...
Two hours to come up with that stupidly easy solution all because I don't have the bricks properly separated... but if I did, I'd need a more space... and if I had more space, I'd have a bigger living room.
For this night's build, I spent a lot of time building six decorative walls, that would be placed sideways on the model - held together with what is known as a headlight brick - or a version of it.
I realized that I didn't need a standard headlight brick as that brick has a lip on the base that would interfere with the attacked wall... so then I realized I needed a less standard headlight brick WITHOUT that lip. I have two - and I already used them. Crap.
So I found bricks with the stud on top, and a hole made through two sides of the cube. I inserted a LEGO pin, and voila (see photo above), I had what I needed... but I needed six... lo and behold... I had six. Or do I need eight? I guess I'll find that out tomorrow night (tonight)... and then see what I can do.
I spent so much time looking for parts - it must have been two hours... I woke up this morning and discovered a mass of blood vessels had burst in the white of my right eye. No pain or discomfort - but what the heck?!
On the plus side, I should either be done later this week or dead from having my eyeball explode. No... I don't really think LEGO building and eyeball explosions are related, but I'm just mentioning what's going on.
Cheers
Andrew Joseph
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