New Book of Days

June 9, 2025 by HTV9

Not too surprisingly, the gluing on the lap desk gave up the ghost. So here’s my new idea. This is 2 long pieces of paracord tied with trucker’s hitches in 2 places on each end of each cord. 4 trucker’s hitches total. I looped each around two corners of the lap desk so 4 corners of paracord loop are visible on the top, then carefully adjusted the location of each trucker’s knot until it looked (on the bottom) like there were two parallel lines making an x with fat lines for each side of the x, with a parallelogram diamond in between. This took some fiddling to ensure the bottom loop part of each trucker’s hitch fastened on to the other bottom loop part before the two half-hitches used to “secure” it (I am not a fan of half hitches since they’re not that secure but they are fast, I’ll give them that). I then carefully tightened each trucker’s hitch. Then, I tied each loop to itself, and then to the other loop in the middle. Hopefully it lasts a while. I think I’m going to go and make some more half hitches on the extra bit of paracord so it doesn’t hang loose. So the million dollar question is does it work? Answer: Yes.

July 21, 2025 Update: It still works. I’ve had to tighten the trucker’s hitches about 3 times but it’s holding.

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