PROGRESS! and a nonsensical Poll.

I woke up literally 2 seconds before the phone rang (interrupting a dream in which a rhino pulled a children's train around a zoo) thinking 'Pool Guy is going to call me'.

And it was him. He says he'll call me tomorrow morning around 8:30 am & his guys will be starting. YAY.

I need to go to Home Depot to buy floor tiles, etc. I don't feel comfortable leaving the house long enough for a supply run while there are workers on the property. I REALLY want to tile the FlistGuest closet's raw cement floor, so I can then make some kind of bookcases to hold books I've removed from the computer room when I took down hideous metal shelving... one thing always leads to another here.

I have gone through 5 design sketches to arrive at what I THINK will be the final plan for the bookcases.

( POLL! )

Paperback bookcase design sketches

( Sketches and Explanatory text )

Long test, but there are pretty animal pictures.

Your result for The Golden Compass Daemon Test...

Quiet Loner Soul

You are a quiet, solitary kind of person. You probably rely on your few close friends or family members to get you out of the house occasionally, or you would probably forget to leave. You don't like big crowds of people, or being in new social situations, because they make you feel uncomfortable and you get tired very quickly. You need to spend some time alone in front of a computer, book, or television to recharge after expending all of that social effort! You have a lot of personal projects that you like to spend time working on.

You don't spend much time talking about yourself or your emotions. Your close friends and family probably have to try and remember to ask you directly about your feelings, and even then you probably just smile or shrug a lot of the time. People who don't know you well probably forget that you even have emotions at all, because you never get angry or upset. Really, though, you just don't think of your emotions as being important. It doesn't even occur to you to call someone and complain about your day, or to retaliate when someone insults you. You march to the beat of your own drum, and you don't really care that much when other people think. You are calm and logical in nature, and reacting emotionally to things simply doesn't come naturally to you. Perhaps you have been hurt or embarrassed in the past, which makes you afraid to share your feelings. Or maybe you are just naturally that way.

At the same time, you are not uncaring, and you are aware of the feelings of other people around you. When a close friend or a family member is going through a rough time, you are sympathetic and probably wish you knew how to make it better.

Your daemon's form would reflect your solitary, calm, logical nature, but would not be aggressive or intimidating in appearance. He or she would probably spend time talking to you constructively about how to solve problems, or simply watching over your shoulder while you indulge in your hobbies.

Suggested form: Lizard, Gecko, Manatee, Tree Kangaroo, Grass Snake.