a new improved desk, and progress that adds more work

The other day my mouse was causing enough frustration to cry out to social media about the issue, and then spend the rest of the re-arranging furniture. I wound up taking enough out of the room to move stuff around and then put most of it back. Gone is the big desk--most of its space hasn't been utilized since we got the recliner to use as a computer chair. Instead we found in a second hand store an old wooden CD tower, which we bought, took home, and while I moved furniture and prepared the space, he took out the old plastic sliders for the CDs, re-glued the join on the back wall, and sanded it back to bare wood. Then he took a leg from a narrow trestle table/tall bench thing that had been in his dad's office and attached it to one end of the wooden box.

We took the top part of that table/bench and mounted it on the wall next to my recliner for holding water bottles and other things that I want in reach when working, and made a computer station out of the former CD tower, which is now oriented horizontally, one end attached to the wall, the other supported by the trestle leg. We have attached the monitor on top, and my laptop sits in the inner area when not in use, and on my lap when it is in use. This means that I am once again able to type on the computer itself, instead of a normal keyboard, and I like it better (I have small hands). Since I sit in a recliner my legs are under the desk/monitor, and I am comfortable.

The only issue was getting in and out, but we knew that would be temporary. Now we have obtained some large hinges, and some wheels, so the box supporting the monitor is now attached by hinges, and the leg sits on two wheels, so when I want to get up from the computer I close the laptop, slide it into the shelf, and simply rotate the whole works station out of the way. I am pleased.

I have also ordered a computer tray on sliders that we can mount into the shelf, so that the computer can be supported on that, instead of sitting on my lap (well, on the little bean bag bottomed table top thingie, which is directly on my lap). If we can get that set up as I envision it, it will be possible to then leave the laptop open when I rotate my workstation, which is good for things like telling it to run backups, and then leaving, or for doing yoga during a zoom call and being able to see the call.

In thesis work progress on the lit review means that I have finally obtained sources that I either didn't look for, or didn't find back when I first saw mention of them. One of these I have already blogged about--the one where it mentioned artefacts that wound up in the Gothenburg museum, but the museum web page artefact database didn't have any of that information, so I told them, and now it does.

The down side is that I hadn't previously had that museum in my chapter of artefacts in Swedish museums, so I am now adding another section to that chapter, and, since they have a fair bit of steatite, it is taking time. Keldor suggested just ignoring that museum, but there is enough there that the collection seems significant, so here I am, adding more artefacts to the thesis chapter, as you do.

It looks like I will be submitting an abstract to a conference in Gothenburg in January, which runs the Wednesday-Friday before 12th Night Coronation in Germany, so, if that happens, as I will already be half way to the event, I may as well attend it...

an email I just sent to the people running the Fornsök web page

Copying it here, since I went to the effort to write it, with a bizillion links...

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Hej!

This letter is to suggest you add a couple of references to the "Referenser" listing for L1969:2795 Gravfält Hålta 12:1:

• Göteborgsstadsmuseum Arkelogisk skrivrapport Nr 1914:2

and

• Ytter Restad: bearbetning och fördjupning av Georg Sarauws rapport från utgrävningen av gravfältet Hålta 12 och 14, 1914–1917

Thanks,

--Riia

PS, below follows a too-much-information description of why I feel these citations belong with this entry, which you can read or ignore, as you wish 🙂

I recently wrote to the Museum in Göteborg with questions about one of their artefacts (GM:7221).

They replied with a link to the report for the Ytter-Rystad excavations of 1914-1917, which talks of 31 graves being excavated, at Knapegården.

I tried to find the location, so I checked my three favourite map pages for details:

In the Ytter-Rystad area on GoogleMaps there is an "Anna på Knapegården" (an interior fitting contractor) showing on the map, with an address at Knapegården 110, 442 95 Hålta, giving me an idea of where in the region Knapegården must have been in 1914.

If one looks at the Lantmateriet web page, just across the street from that business is a hill with a bunch of burial mounds clearly visible in the Lidar image.

I first thought that these are the mounds from that excavation, except, if one checks the fornsök web page for those mounds the description doesn't mention 31 graves, but rather lists:

• Grav markerad av sten/block - Typ: rest sten, antal 1
• Hög - Form: rund, antal 18
• Stenkrets/stenrad - Form: domarring, Konstruktion: klumpstenar, antal 3
• Stenkrets/stenrad - Form: domarring, Konstruktion: resta stenar, antal 2
• Stensättning - Form: oval, Konstruktion: övertorvad, antal 2
• Stensättning - Form: rund, Konstruktion: övertorvad, antal 14

And under "Undersökningsstatus" it says "Okänd", and under "Referenser" there is no information at all, both of which made me wonder if this is not the grave field discussed in the report after all.

However, then I checked the Inventeringsbok: 1, and I see that yes, this is, in fact the grave field investigated by Sarauw in 1914-1917