Some Assembly Required
Jul. 12th, 2015 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilightponyI opened the box my telescope was packed in. The bad news was that there was some assembly required. The good news is that there are detailed instructions. I didn't want to end up with a microscope, knowing how well I put things together. It's not like the instructions aren't clear, it's just the assembling part that keeps going wrong somehow. So I got help.
Rarity is my go-to pony for this. She's a whiz with this kind of fine motor control. She can insert tab "A" into slot "A" and not "B", "C" or "D", no problem. Pinkie is good at assembling things too, but the things she builds are often a bit eclectic. She might end up making a starlight cannon rather than a telescope. Applejack is a can-do pony, but she can-do best with a hammer. I think she can-don't do delicate glass instruments. Too fiddly.
So I got out the instruction manual, hi-lighted the key steps, made a flow-chart and arranged all the parts on a table in the order that they are to be assembled. Then I called on Rarity.
Rarity was free this afternoon, and after tea we got to it! I read the instructions, Rarity put it together and Spike handed her all the tools and pieces. Team work! I did have to rein in her artistic tendencies a little. There were a few times she suggested that such and such a piece would look oh so avant guard breaking free from the orderly arrangement of the other parts and oh! glitter and could we paint it chartreuse. Chartreuse is so "in" this season!
So now I have a shiny new, two whole hoofspans lens, modular ocular, refractive, night and day, Double Bridle telescope. With a glittery chartreuse bow tied around the middle. I took it out on my small balcony after dark and gazed deep into the sky. Just like old times.
Rarity is my go-to pony for this. She's a whiz with this kind of fine motor control. She can insert tab "A" into slot "A" and not "B", "C" or "D", no problem. Pinkie is good at assembling things too, but the things she builds are often a bit eclectic. She might end up making a starlight cannon rather than a telescope. Applejack is a can-do pony, but she can-do best with a hammer. I think she can-don't do delicate glass instruments. Too fiddly.
So I got out the instruction manual, hi-lighted the key steps, made a flow-chart and arranged all the parts on a table in the order that they are to be assembled. Then I called on Rarity.
Rarity was free this afternoon, and after tea we got to it! I read the instructions, Rarity put it together and Spike handed her all the tools and pieces. Team work! I did have to rein in her artistic tendencies a little. There were a few times she suggested that such and such a piece would look oh so avant guard breaking free from the orderly arrangement of the other parts and oh! glitter and could we paint it chartreuse. Chartreuse is so "in" this season!
So now I have a shiny new, two whole hoofspans lens, modular ocular, refractive, night and day, Double Bridle telescope. With a glittery chartreuse bow tied around the middle. I took it out on my small balcony after dark and gazed deep into the sky. Just like old times.
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Date: 2015-07-13 02:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-13 06:36 am (UTC)I wish I could do it more often, but, as I've said before, I live in an area with a lot of light pollution.
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Date: 2015-07-14 01:16 am (UTC)