A better day today. Charged into the day fitting a new LED light to the kitchen, to replace an ancient under-shelf fluorescent tube. This took an hour or so.
Then, worked on the 'Asleep' frame.
There were a few imperfections. The saddest part was how carefully I treated the soft wood, only to drop one piece onto another accidentally, causing a visible (and unrepairable) dent in the smooth surface of one side. The frame was also made too small. This a consequence of using the still new 45-degree sliding tool to measure the edges. The tolerance for these hand-cut frames is just 1mm. 1mm per edge, makes 2mm for both, but this can grow to 4mm with ease, how these tiny amounts grow. In this case the frame was 4mm too short. It was also annoying in that the moulding was particularly complex and beautiful and special, so I cut down the painting by 4mm to fit.
I also, unusually, framed it all while the frame was gluing; to save time. This thick wood barely needs long for the glue to hold. I know from experience of pulling these apart just how strong the glue is on these grain-edge joints, and these are stapled too.
Finally, I decided to customise my new phone, a Nokia 105 4G (2023), to replace my old beloved friend of the Nokia 106 type RM-962. Almost every change the new phone is worse, from the hard-to-press buttons, the slow everything, the many stupid menus that aren't needed, and system bugs (like the 'Abc' capitalisation not working, like renaming profiles not renaming them in the shortcut options), to the slowness of texting, long pauses to press each letter. Bah!
However, I can customise it. In memory of my long-term 106, I've sampled the Nokia 106 sounds in 24-bit and added high quality versions to the new phone (in 16-bit, mono, 44100hz, wav format). The new one didn't have a 'quiet' single-tone for texts, so I've added that. All of the old sounds sounded better, the new ones are brash and distorted, and are too loud even on the lowest setting.
I've also customised the wallpaper, which (after some experiments) is 124x160 pixels, and png format works fine. It's a pity that I can't use my old Nokia 106 background (I guess a hardware rip would be needed), but perhaps it would be silly to use that anyway.
