THE BIG ONE

Total website redesign.
Multiple new blog posts.
Routine updates on several pages.
Too much to list, even if I remembered it all.
Remind me not to put this git repo on any portfolios.

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@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ Besides that, I also elected not to keep my old bedframe after the move because
 
 Small content warning: I'm gonna be using exclusively US units for this project, because even though I'm not in the States, that's still how just about all construction products are sized in my bass-ackwards country and it's easier not to bother converting.
 
-## My Grand Master Plan
+# My Grand Master Plan
 
-### #goals
+## #goals
 
 1. Obviously, this bedframe needs to accommodate the queen mattress I already have. I'm not opposed to switching to a narrower mattress to save even more floor space in theory, but a new mattress would cost about as much if not more than the materials for this whole project, so I'm not doing that.
 
@@ -20,18 +20,16 @@ Small content warning: I'm gonna be using exclusively US units for this project,
 
 5. The simpler, the better. I want this thing to have as few parts to break as I can manage, and require as little engineering effort on my part as possible. Nothing too fancy. No fuckin', like, motors or whatever the hell people on Youtube are doing with their clickbait ass loft bed builds. This ties into the sturdiness requirement to an extent, and I also need to actually be able to build the thing with my extremely limited woodworking experience.
 
-### The general shape of it
+## The general shape of it
 
 Rather than spend two paragraphs flailing around trying to describe the design I came up with with words, I just went and modeled the thing.
 
 <figure class="media">
-  <div>
-    <div class="gallery">
-      <img src="bed1.png" alt="Crude 3D render of a queen-sized loft bed, consisting of four large posts that span the full height of the bed joined together by thinner beams with generous diagonal bracing. There's also a headboard.">
-      <img src="bed2.png" alt="Another render of the same bed, but blown apart and with the mattress removed to show the parts that were hidden in the first render, such as the slats and center beam supporting the mattress and the bottom diagonal bracing on the two far sides. The posts have grooves cut into them to fit the cross beams.">
-    </div>
-    <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">I should have made this anyway, but I'll admit the thing that finally motivated me to do it was having a visual aid to put here.</figcaption>
+  <div class="gallery">
+    <img src="bed1.png" alt="Crude 3D render of a queen-sized loft bed, consisting of four large posts that span the full height of the bed joined together by thinner beams with generous diagonal bracing. There's also a headboard.">
+    <img src="bed2.png" alt="Another render of the same bed, but blown apart and with the mattress removed to show the parts that were hidden in the first render, such as the slats and center beam supporting the mattress and the bottom diagonal bracing on the two far sides. The posts have grooves cut into them to fit the cross beams.">
   </div>
+  <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">I should have made this anyway, but I'll admit the thing that finally motivated me to do it was having a visual aid to put here.</figcaption>
 </figure>
 
 The legs are 6x6 posts, and the cross beams on the sides are 2x6's with the diagonal braces made of 2x4's. In other words, this thing is built like a deck. It's almost certainly overkill for a bed, but that's kinda the point. I'm not a structural engineer, I'm a hobbyist computer toucher with access to a circular saw and a cordless drill and next to no woodworking experience, so my preferred strategy is to way overbuild to compensate for my amateur-hour design.
@@ -44,17 +42,13 @@ I've left the diagonal bracing off on two sides of the bottom for easier access,
 
 I don't have a very specific plan cosmetically at this point, which is probably good because there's frankly a snowball's chance in hell I actually execute it well if I had one. I do know I want it to look good with my existing grey bedding. Roughly, I want to leave the corner posts more or less alone visually, maybe stain them, and then either paint or stain the rest black. I'm not expecting this thing to be a looker per se, but I'm gonna do my best not to make it ugly.
 
-## Gear Acquisition
+# Gear Acquisition
 
 I was originally planning to buy another bedframe on Kijiji or similar and hack off the mattress support structure and headboard to reuse them, but before I could pull the trigger on that I was made aware of a feature of Da Big City called a "Habitat For Humanity ReStore". This turned out to be very helpful, because I got all that stuff for half the price I was gonna pay for a full bedframe to chop apart, and I found this great upholstered headboard!
 
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-  <div>
-    <div class="gallery">
-      <img src="h4h_haul.webp" alt="An upholstered headboard and its mounting hardware, a bundle of slats, and the support hardware for those slats sitting in my garage.">
-    </div>
-    <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">Ignore those metal side rails. I bought those and then realized they're too short for a queen mattress. I'm probably just gonna use 2x2s or something instead.</figcaption>
-  </div>
+  <img src="h4h_haul.webp" alt="An upholstered headboard and its mounting hardware, a bundle of slats, and the support hardware for those slats sitting in my garage.">
+  <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">Ignore those metal side rails. I bought those and then realized they're too short for a queen mattress. I'm probably just gonna use 2x2s or something instead.</figcaption>
 </figure>
 
 The IKEA center beam hooks onto a special bracket on each end. These weren't included, but as it turns out IKEA will just mail some to you free of charge if you ask nicely (fill out a form on their website).
@@ -63,19 +57,15 @@ As you might reasonably expect, all the fasteners, various finishing goops, and/
 
 I also ended up ordering a couple things online &mdash; just accessories, like a wall-mountable lamp and a panel mount power outlet. I tried to find that stuff in the hardware store, but all the ones they had were designed for installation in, like, the walls of your house, and I refuse to include mains electrical wiring in the scope of this project.
 
-### My Wood
+## My Wood
 
 The hardware store had all the sizes of board I wanted, but they only had the 4x4's and 6x6's in pressure-treated form &mdash; essentially, that means they've been chemically treated to resist rot for outdoor applications, especially in contact with the ground. Not only is this wholly unnecessary in any environment you'd put a mattress in, but the toxic chemicals used in the treatment process make this stuff kind of a bitch to work with. Or so I've read online.
 
 Fortunately, living in Da Big City came in clutch here once again, by providing me with a decent selection of actual real-life lumber yards that sold the big stupid beams I wanted in flavours other than poison. I'm not sure what exactly I was expecting from the process, but it was simpler than that. I walked up to the front desk, told them what sizes of lumber I needed, and they accepted my payment and had me take my car around back to load it up. Once again, my social anxiety has lied to me. It was at this point that I learned *exactly* how much lumber will fit in a late model Subaru Outback.
 
 <figure class="media">
-  <div>
-    <div class="gallery">
-      <img src="lumber_haul.webp" alt="The back of my car, a late model Subaru Outback, packed with 4 6x6's, 2 4x4's, and 7 2x4's. They're mostly crammed over the center console and atop the passenger seat. It's clearly near capacity for cargo of this form factor.">
-    </div>
-    <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">I didn't think to take this photo until after I'd taken out the 2x6's, but this gives you the basic idea. I'm pissed that the front passenger seat in this car doesn't fold down, otherwise it would actually be pretty well suited to this.</figcaption>
-  </div>
+  <img src="lumber_haul.webp" alt="The back of my car, a late model Subaru Outback, packed with 4 6x6's, 2 4x4's, and 7 2x4's. They're mostly crammed over the center console and atop the passenger seat. It's clearly near capacity for cargo of this form factor.">
+  <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">I didn't think to take this photo until after I'd taken out the 2x6's, but this gives you the basic idea. I'm pissed that the front passenger seat in this car doesn't fold down, otherwise it would actually be pretty well suited to this.</figcaption>
 </figure>
 
 They didn't actually have the 2x3's I wanted to use under the slats though. I had to get those from the hardware store.
@@ -86,18 +76,14 @@ This isn't the end of the world, and in fact probably means I got these cheaper
 
 For finishing liquids, I initially went with two colours of this combination stain/polyurethane stuff, then did more research on it and saw such overwhelmingly negative sentiment from the Redditors that I was moved to return it and buy some real (if cheap) stain and some real poly. I went with oil-based for both, and the colours I went with were black and something called "puritan pine". I'll admit, if you're having any reaction to all that other than confusion, it probably means more to you than it does to me. If this was a Youtube video, this would be the bit where I start rattling off the dictionary definition of "foreshadowing" and cut halfway through the first sentence.
 
-### Getting a "new" tool
+## Getting a "new" tool
 
 There was precious little I could do on this project before I got those rough cut posts ready to work with, and it was readily apparent that my cheapo orbital sander was not up to the task, so I needed a new tool. Of course, in an ideal world I would be able to do that with a jointer and a thickness planer, but those two tools would eat up like, most of the money I have at the moment, even used, and I can't seem to find anywhere to rent them, so that's out. I also don't own a router nor have a large, perfectly flat workbench to build one of those massive surfacing jigs for one, so I guess the only real option left is a hand planer.
 
 My uncle, who recently did up a bedframe of his own, originally offered to lend me his, but that fell through since he couldn't give me his battery and none of mine are compatible. Instead, I found a listing on Kijiji for a lot of four power tools for 80 Metric Dollars, including a jigsaw, a moderately dirty belt sander, an impact wrench attachment for an air compressor, and the one I was interested in, this distinctly vintage looking electric hand planer.
 
 <figure class="media">
-  <div>
-    <div class="gallery">
-      <img src="planer.webp" alt="A dirty, old-looking corded electric hand planer with a beefy metal housing and no visible branding.">
-    </div>
-  </div>
+  <img src="planer.webp" alt="A dirty, old-looking corded electric hand planer with a beefy metal housing and no visible branding.">
 </figure>
 
 There's no visible branding on this device, but perusing image search results for "vintage eletric hand plane" led me to [this page](http://vintagemachinery.org/photoindex/detail.aspx?id=37904) on the appropriately old-looking vintagemachinery.org featuring an identical-looking unit apparently called a Model No. 1701 Type 1 Electric Planer from the Illinois-based Portable Electric Tools, Inc. Might I just say, very clever name, right up there with General Motors and Advanced Micro Devices. The page claims that it "looks like a heavy duty, well made tool", and I'm inclined to agree with that assessment. If you could feel the weight of this thing, I suspect you'd feel the same way.
@@ -108,9 +94,9 @@ More immediately important to the usability of the tool was the fact that the cu
 
 Other than that, the thing seems to work fine, though I'm sure it's overdue just about every possible maintenance procedure. I will figure out what those are and attempt them when it breaks and not a moment sooner, she said foreshadowingly.
 
-## Building the stupid thing
+# Building the stupid thing
 
-### Prep
+## Prep
 
 The very first thing I did towards actually building the bed was cut the diagonal braces, long-side cross beams, supports for the slats, and the rungs for a heretofore undiscussed ladder. This was everything I knew for sure I could do without having to compare against any dimension of the as-yet-unassembled bed. Before I could do anything else, I had to get those rough sawn boards smoothed out.
 
@@ -119,16 +105,14 @@ I'll admit it took me a while to do this. The planing process left a lot of arti
 I started out sanding with the orbital sander because that's what I had sandpaper for on hand, and got through about one and a half faces of one of the boards over the course of two-odd hours before giving up and just going and buying sandpaper for my aforementioned-briefly-in-passing new-to-me WEN Model 919 belt sander. This made the next two feet or so of sanding go much faster before it perished dramatically in a plume of smoke.
 
 <figure class="media">
-  <div>
-    <div class="gallery">
-      <video controls>
-        <source src="SMOKINHOT.webm" />
-        In case the video didn't load, it's supposed to be a video of the belt sander emitting a plume of smoke from the motor housing.
-      </video>
-      <img src="RIP.webp" alt="My poor belt sander lays dead on my driveway, covered in fire extinguisher powder.">
-    </div>
-    <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">It was worse than the video makes it look, and the video makes it look pretty bad. You might say, it's <em>cooked</em>.</figcaption>
+  <div class="gallery">
+    <video controls>
+      <source src="SMOKINHOT.webm" />
+      In case the video didn't load, it's supposed to be a video of the belt sander emitting a plume of smoke from the motor housing.
+    </video>
+    <img src="RIP.webp" alt="My poor belt sander lays dead on my driveway, covered in fire extinguisher powder.">
   </div>
+  <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">It was worse than the video makes it look, and the video makes it look pretty bad. You might say, it's <em>cooked</em>.</figcaption>
 </figure>
 
 Not wanting to go back to the orbital sander, I did something that would throw a wrench into the cleanly deliniated sections I had going here: I went out and bought the cheapest belt sander at the hardware store, an $85 Ryobi that I got for half of that because it was open box. Wow! The reason for this, as I would soon discover, was that it failed to grip the belt while actually sanding, rendering it useless. After returning it for what I must assume is a second time, I finally caved and shelled out for a decent belt sander, and I think it may have been worth it. Even including the three trips to the hardware store, this was much faster than the orbital sander, which is not to say that it was fast. Watching woodworking videos on Youtube where they complain about sanding does *not* prepare you for the reality of how long sanding takes.
@@ -137,7 +121,7 @@ Speaking of sketchy tools, I need to complain about the awful folding saw horses
 
 Having sanded the rough-cut posts to my satisfaction, it was immediately apparent that my pre-surfaced 2x4's were actually quite substantially rougher, so those had to be sanded down too. Not that it's a big deal, since all of the wood had to be sanded further anyway for staining and it's not like I'm gonna be knocking down much of significance with 180 grit or whatever. But that's later.
 
-### What I would consider to be the "fun part"
+## What I would consider to be the "fun part"
 
 Before sanding past 50 grit, I wanted to get all the rest of my cutting done. Most of this process is unremarkable, save for my darling 6x6's, which, much like yours truly, are much too thick to fit on the miter saw I'm using. Astute readers will at this point be thinking "wait, but didn't she specifically intend not to cut those?" and are correct in this assessment, but this is the point where I noticed another small wrinkle brought on by my decision to get these rough-cut: they're all slightly different lengths, and they're all too long. See, my ceiling is just slightly taller than 8 feet, such that a 6-inch-wide board that's exactly 8 feet long could comfortably be stood up inside. If I tried to do that with these boards in their initial state, they would take differently sized chunks out of the drywall in my bizarre pseudo-popcorn ceiling. So they're gonna need to be cut after all.
 
@@ -150,23 +134,15 @@ Remember those notches I wanted to cut in the posts? The best technique for that
 It was clear that I needed a tool that wasn't reliant on the power storage capacity of a couple 16-year-old hunks of lithium. This time, I went back to Habitat for Humanity to see what they had, because apparently they sell tools. In among a kind of impressive assortment of tools mostly from the back half of the previous century (as well as a pickaxe of all things, which I was very tempted to buy) was this monstrous thing, a Skilsaw Model 554c 8-1/4" 13-amp corded circular saw, with an intact ground pin and everything!
 
 <figure class="media">
-  <div>
-    <div class="gallery">
-      <img src="skill_saw.webp" alt="A dirty, old-looking corded electric circular saw with a beefy metal housing and extremely visible 'Skilsaw' branding.">
-    </div>
-    <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">I promise I'll have some photos that aren't of a power tool soon.</figcaption>
-  </div>
+  <img src="skill_saw.webp" alt="A dirty, old-looking corded electric circular saw with a beefy metal housing and extremely visible 'Skilsaw' branding."> 
+  <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">I promise I'll have some photos that aren't of a power tool soon.</figcaption>
 </figure>
 
 This thing worked a treat. On top of its lack of a need for batteries allowing me to get 100% of my remaining circular saw work done the day I bought the thing, it was perhaps unsurprisingly *way* more powerful than the battery-powered saw. It's clear to me why I only had to pay 10 Canadian SillyBucks for it &mdash; getting the sled aligned at exactly 90&deg; to the blade is kind of a pain, for one &mdash; but I can't argue with results.
 
 <figure class="media">
-  <div>
-    <div class="gallery">
-      <img src="rslashshittyjoinery.webp" alt="A close up of two 6x6 posts where they've each had large notches, big enough to fit a 2x6, cut out of them on two sides. The notches are visibly imprecise.">
-    </div>
-    <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">Ugly results maybe, but results. Again, rustic. Laughs nervously. Fortunately, most of this will be hidden.</figcaption>
-  </div>
+  <img src="rslashshittyjoinery.webp" alt="A close up of two 6x6 posts where they've each had large notches, big enough to fit a 2x6, cut out of them on two sides. The notches are visibly imprecise.">
+  <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">Ugly results maybe, but results. Again, rustic. Laughs nervously. Fortunately, most of this will be hidden.</figcaption>
 </figure>
 
 I also had to use a chisel to clean up the notches after I was done with the saw. Let me just say that this sucked ass to do and it's a damn good thing every surface the chisel touched is gonna be hidden under an inch and a half of solid pine. There's "rustic", and then there's "looks like total ass". Either Dewalt chisels are ass or I was doing something very wrong. We will now be moving on.
@@ -181,7 +157,7 @@ Now for the exciting part: the first test assembly. My plan here was to assemble
 
 Once it was up, I just used copious amounts of deck screws to make the side pieces, which consist of the cross beams, another 2x6 for a ledge on the top, and a 2x3 to hold the slats. A 2x3 feels like a strange choice here, but I wanted some extra horizontal leeway because I built the bed a little wide to accommodate the headboard, which is maybe an inch wider than a queen mattress, and wasn't confident my slats would be long enough. This also conveniently turned out to be about as wide as this piece could be without interfering with my access to the bolts on the inside facing the mattress, a quirk I completely forgot to account for in my design.
 
-### I'm just putting these headings in to break this up visually ngl. anyway here's finishing
+## I'm just putting these headings in to break this up visually ngl. anyway here's finishing
 
 Cleverly forseeing that attaching the diagonal braces now would render some areas inaccessible with a power sander of any kind, I stopped here and disassembled the bed again for further processing. The original plan had been to sand up to 180 grit, but I didn't have any 180 grit sandpaper, so I sanded a piece with 120 grit, decided I was content with that level of smoothness, and stopped there because I want this to actually get done. Astonishingly, this took a lot less time than the 50 grit pass, I assume because I wasn't trying to knock down a bunch of like 1mm+ high spots. The second and final pass only took me two days of work! Wow!
 
@@ -201,7 +177,7 @@ This is where my early resignment to a rustic (go ahead and take a shot now) aes
 
 I understand why people seem to default to paint for this type of thing now. That would have been a lot easier and more forgiving than this. However, it would have looked a lot less cool, especially since all my raw materials have giant surface defects that would just look weird under a coat of paint.
 
-### Assembly DRAFT (Final) 3 (FINAL) this one (draft) 2 FINAL.docx
+## Assembly DRAFT (Final) 3 (FINAL) this one (draft) 2 FINAL.docx
 
 Let's talk about that ladder. I haven't really mentioned it so far, and it wasn't even in my computer model, because it's that dead simple and honestly kind of secondary to the bed itself. I want to replace it with some kind of stair cabinet contraption in the future, but that's a whole other project and I needed a way to get into my bed now, hence this. The plan was to build it out of 4x4's for the sides and 2x4's for the rungs, with dimensions as described in [OSHA Standard 1926.1053(a)(3)(i) and 1926.1053(a)(4)(i)](https://archive.ph/pB5JN), and have it just bolt onto the bed. This was the easiest, and therefore first, task I did towards the final assembly.
 
@@ -210,12 +186,8 @@ I attached the rungs with deck screws through the 4x4's, in deep countersinks si
 The rungs actually *did* start going anywhere when I put my full weight on them, but that was because I screwed them in too close to the middle and they were twisting when I put my full weight on the front edge. I solved that with some more deck screws at an angle through the bottom. Luckily, it's not visible unless you're lying on the floor, which is the exact opposite of what you're doing when you use this bed.
 
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-  <div>
-    <div class="gallery">
-      <img src="immovable_object.webp" alt="A 5-foot handmade wooden ladder made of two 4x4's stained a very mild amber, with four rungs stained completely black.">
-    </div>
-    <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">Ignore the prodigious post-move-in junk pile behind the ladder. If you were wondering, that's the reason I've been building stuff in the driveway.</figcaption>
-  </div>
+  <img src="immovable_object.webp" alt="A 5-foot handmade wooden ladder made of two 4x4's stained a very mild amber, with four rungs stained completely black.">
+  <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">Ignore the prodigious post-move-in junk pile behind the ladder. If you were wondering, that's the reason I've been building stuff in the driveway.</figcaption>
 </figure>
 
 This was also my first confirmation that my at this point irreversible aesthetic choices weren't completely unworkable dogshit. So that was nice.
@@ -231,19 +203,15 @@ Attaching the cross braces to the posts taught me to hate threaded inserts. I ha
 It was during this step that my decision to apply the finish before assembling everything *really* paid off.
 
 <figure class="media">
-  <div>
-    <div class="gallery">
-      <img src="smth_about_a_parade.webp" alt="The bed in question, which bears a striking resemblance to the model from earlier, being shielded from the rain with a bedsheet stapled to the tops of the posts.">
-    </div>
-    <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">SUCK MY UNWANTED AND UNASKED-FOR BALLS, MOTHER NATURE.</figcaption>
-  </div>
+  <img src="smth_about_a_parade.webp" alt="The bed in question, which bears a striking resemblance to the model from earlier, being shielded from the rain with a bedsheet stapled to the tops of the posts.">
+  <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">SUCK MY UNWANTED AND UNASKED-FOR BALLS, MOTHER NATURE.</figcaption>
 </figure>
 
 It's probably not ideal to have this stuff out in the rain, but the polyurethane coating did at least buy me enough time to wipe all the raindrops off without them soaking into the wood and causing havoc. As you can clearly see, some quick thinking with a random old bedsheet and the local cordless staple gun also helped. Fortunately, the rain died down pretty quick, but the wind took a bit longer. I had to add more staples at least once.
 
 After that, only a couple little things remained, mostly nightstand stuff. Mounting the lamp, measuring my little improvised shelf to cut the backing board out, etc etc. Then,
 
-## Installation
+# Installation
 
 As you might rightly imagine, this was a little more difficult to assemble in an actively-in-use bedroom with a little over twice the square footage of the bed itself, and that's *after* you get the eight huge pieces this comes in up the stairs and in there. It was very much a two-person job. I had to move some furniture just to move this thing into position, and I will admit it *may* have taken some cosmetic damage in the process.
 
@@ -254,29 +222,23 @@ I discovered at this point that, as I had predicted, the slats were just slightl
 After all that, I *finally*, after over a month of work, had this to show for it:
 
 <figure class="media">
-  <div>
-    <div class="gallery">
-      <img src="payoff.webp" alt="A queen-sized loft bed that I designed and built myself, made of 8-foot 6x6 posts for legs and various hardware store lumber for cross beams and bracing, all held together with giant bolts at each joint. The former is a nice wood tone while the latter is stained black. It has green curtains on the sides and a grey upholstered headboard that matches the grey bedding. My desk can be seen underneath it.">
-    </div>
-    <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">The room was too small to get a better picture than this without using the grainy ass wide-angle sensor. It's almost as though I'm hurting for floor space in here.</figcaption>
-  </div>
+  <img src="payoff.webp" alt="A queen-sized loft bed that I designed and built myself, made of 8-foot 6x6 posts for legs and various hardware store lumber for cross beams and bracing, all held together with giant bolts at each joint. The former is a nice wood tone while the latter is stained black. It has green curtains on the sides and a grey upholstered headboard that matches the grey bedding. My desk can be seen underneath it.">
+  <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">The room was too small to get a better picture than this without using the grainy ass wide-angle sensor. It's almost as though I'm hurting for floor space in here.</figcaption>
 </figure>
 
 I promise it looks more rustic in person.
 
 <figure class="media">
-  <div>
-    <div class="gallery">
-      <img src="nightstand.webp" alt="A closeup of my bed's built-in nightstand, a slightly shoddy affair consisting of three vertical pieces of black-stained 2x6 bridged by two longer ones horizontally between them. All this is screwed into the bed's side ledge, also a black 2x6, creating two different tiers of storage. Towards the right side is a 120V and USB outlet embedded into the top surface, and a lamp mounted on a swinging arm to the very right end. This assembly has a plywood backing board stained the same amber brown as the corner posts.">
-      <img src="pov.webp" alt="POV you're sleeping in my loft bed. You're surrounded by my grey IKEA bedding, a couple novelty pillows, and a Blahaj. There's about two feet of vertical space between the mattress you're lying on and the ceiling. At the edges of the bed, the greenish-blue blackout curtains prevent you from seeing any further.">
-    </div>
-    <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">Really cozy.</figcaption>
+  <div class="gallery">
+    <img src="nightstand.webp" alt="A closeup of my bed's built-in nightstand, a slightly shoddy affair consisting of three vertical pieces of black-stained 2x6 bridged by two longer ones horizontally between them. All this is screwed into the bed's side ledge, also a black 2x6, creating two different tiers of storage. Towards the right side is a 120V and USB outlet embedded into the top surface, and a lamp mounted on a swinging arm to the very right end. This assembly has a plywood backing board stained the same amber brown as the corner posts.">
+    <img src="pov.webp" alt="POV you're sleeping in my loft bed. You're surrounded by my grey IKEA bedding, a couple novelty pillows, and a Blahaj. There's about two feet of vertical space between the mattress you're lying on and the ceiling. At the edges of the bed, the greenish-blue blackout curtains prevent you from seeing any further.">
   </div>
+  <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">Really cozy.</figcaption>
 </figure>
 
 I guess that gives you a better idea, huh?
 
-## Usage Impressions
+# Usage Impressions
 
 Honestly, this feels a lot less cramped both below and above than I was expecting it to be. I like it a lot. It's very cozy up top, and my ability to use my desk is thoroughly unimpeded. In fact, this structure provides a lot of convenient mount points for stuff in that area. Getting in is easier than I was expecting, but getting out is unsurprisingly kind of a pain. I intend to take the ladder off and modify it to be slanted, which should help. 
 
@@ -288,7 +250,7 @@ The bed also darkens the room considerably &mdash; it's directly below the ceili
 
 Also, building in outlets and a lamp up top was a stroke of genius on my part.
 
-## Postmortem
+# Postmortem
 
 I'd say this project was mostly a success. It's a little shittier and jankier than I had imagined, but that was to be expected. The one glaring exception is that I failed to make it adjustable. It had been becoming more and more clear that that wasn't really gonna be feasible with my level of skill and the quality of my materials for a while, but the moment I gave up on it was when I put the first diagonal braces on the back, measured the vertical distance between the cross member they were on and the points at which they mounted to the posts, and there was over an inch of difference. I think if I really want this thing lower in the future, my adjustment mechanism will be my ~~shiny~~ ~~new~~ circular saw.
 
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 <p id="n1"><a href="#n1r">1</a>. Just for funsies, here's a photo I took of all the (surviving) tools I bought for this project. Except the Anvil saw horses. FUCK the Anvil saw horses. I'd wager about half the value here is tied up in that brand new belt sander.</p>
 
-![A bunch of tools and consumables laid out on my driveway: A new Ridgid belt sander, an old-ish Black and Decker jigsaw with new blades, an old Skilsaw circular saw, a VERY old electric hand plane, a 4lb box of painter's rags, a box of nitrile gloves, earmuffs and safety goggles, a small Kreg pocket hole jig kit, a 3-pack of Dewalt chisels, a 3-pack of spade bits, a 3-pack of wire brushes, and a 4-pack of clamps. Not pictured: a two pack of cheap Anvil brand saw horses, one of which is already broken.](hashtagmytools.webp)
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+  <img src="hashtagmytools.webp" alt="A bunch of tools and consumables laid out on my driveway: A new Ridgid belt sander, an old-ish Black and Decker jigsaw with new blades, an old Skilsaw circular saw, a VERY old electric hand plane, a 4lb box of painter's rags, a box of nitrile gloves, earmuffs and safety goggles, a small Kreg pocket hole jig kit, a 3-pack of Dewalt chisels, a 3-pack of spade bits, a 3-pack of wire brushes, and a 4-pack of clamps. Not pictured: a two pack of cheap Anvil brand saw horses, one of which is already broken.">
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