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Project Log

Project Log: Reloading Bench Drawers

Problem to be solved The reloading workbench is 24 inches deep, but I have just been using 12" milk crates to store things, and lost track of anything that got pushed behind them. The crates slide surprisingly poorly on the concrete, and don't hold that much stuff. The Solution Use the full depth, width, and height of the space under this shelf, and build two "drawers" that are just platforms on non-swiveling casters. The scrap wood pile had a good piece of 3/4" plywood to form the b … (Continued)

Staying Busy

Tonight was the toughest I've had this week. I finished work, feeling drained. Steph and I walked around the neighborhood with the dog, I made dinner, we ate dinner. I had the whole evening. I sat down to write another blog post like yesterday's, since it seemed to resonate and was really thrilling to write. It didn't work. I can't summon that on demand. I had good raw materials yesterday and bupkis today. I puttered around for a while. I tried to read. I went upstairs to for something. I saw … (Continued)

Recent Adventures in Plumbing

Don't ever neglect an opportunity to learn something, even if it doesn't seem all that relevant right now. Two or three months ago, the metal rod that lifted the stopper in our master bedroom sink rusted away so the drain was permanently closed. So we fished out the stopper and set it aside, but that left a big hole in the sink, perfect for dropping things into. So, figuring it couldn't be that hard, I watched some YouTube videos, got the parts from Lowe's, and set to replacing the drain and st … (Continued)

Fixing the Door

Tonight's project was a lesson in the problem not being what you thought it was. A few months ago, the front door started "catching" when we went to close the deadbolt. You had to pull the door tight to get the deadbolt to close smoothly. I thought it might just be the house settling or the door frame shifting, but Steph pointed out the house is almost 20 years old. It shouldn't be settling that much anymore. Regardless, I set out the other night to pull the deadbolt apart and see what I could … (Continued)

Running a Ghost Blog, Part 2

I mentioned in the previous post in this series that I was looking forward to working on this blog like it was a car, and that has turned out truer than even I expected. This website is barely two weeks old as I write this, and I'm already modifying the source of the blogging platform to fix tiny details that are just... bugging me. I'll admit it was a slippery slope to live-editing the source of the CMS, but it didn't start there. The first step down the slippery slope was uploading a custom … (Continued)

Running a Ghost Blog, Part 1

Depending on how you count it, this is the fifth or sixth blog I've contributed to, and the first running on Ghost. The first was on Blogger (I never did have a LiveJournal), and the rest of them have been WordPress, which has been the reigning champ of the blogging world for a long, long time. But WordPress is... old. It uses PHP and CGI scripts, which are perfectly functional but dated. Nobody with a choice would use those technologies to start something new and modern. Practically speakin … (Continued)