I wanted a project I could complete in a week or so, and recently saw a bunch of youtube videos making wooden pumpkins, so I decided to try that out and take the opportunity to create something Anna can help with, too.

It’s been A WHILE since I’ve been able to say that I actually finished almost anything. That goes for software projects, work stuff, and woodworking. But over the weekend I finally finished something: I built anna a clothes drying hanger/rack to hang up in the laundry room for drying her clothes that can’t be dried in the dryer. It wasn’t that much WORK but it was hard for me in my current state. I had to:

Consider this a precursor to a longer post that I’m currently writing on the subject of preservation of digital media (games in particular), and the sorry state of tools that are built for the purpose.

First Project Completed

Over the weekend I finished work on the Basic Mobile Workbench (from Steve Ramsey). The work had some complications to it, caused by my lack of attention to detail, but I’m happy with the overall product.

I got very interested in woodworking around june of last year, probably after the lockdown had started to set in a bit and I was pretty bored, but at the time I didn’t really have the disposable income to work on anything. I’d already had a miter saw and some chisels and hammers and hand tools that I’d used here and there, but to really get into it I thought I’d need at least a circular saw and maybe a random orbit sander or something similar to that. I’d basically been putting off doing any kind of woodworking beyond just watching videos for months, and I thought I wouldn’t have the opportunity to do anything until at least early spring.

A few weeks ago, Bill and I tried to change the oil on the M3, only to find that it couldn’t drive up the plastic ramps without ripping the front bumper off. The front jack point is also too far under the engine to reach with the floor jacks we have, so it was going to be very annoying to get under the car.