… backlog
I fell down on posting for a while, because there was Stuff, but I got a lot done, so. When we left our her@, they had just run out of tyvek tape.
I fell down on posting for a while, because there was Stuff, but I got a lot done, so. When we left our her@, they had just run out of tyvek tape.
The sky was doing this when I got outside. Not very promising but I figured I’d get as far as I could before the skies opened.
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I called my aunt on the way to Home Despot today, & opened the conversation with I AM ABOUT TO SPEND SO MUCH MONEY Yep, I was whining. But that’s how it goes. We had a lovely chat. Turns out my uncle bought a van & has been converting it into a lovely tiny travelling
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Friday night, I got home from Albuquerque, took a HOT bath, & went the hell to bed, cos it turns out that handing someone that much money at once is a BIT stressful & also, tiring. … the LARGE plate of lo mein I bought & consumed on the way home probably helped with that,
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That was pretty much my first view of MY trailer that is MINE & that I can do what I want with. It was a BIT OVERWHELMING. I mean, though, also awesome! Also stacked behind a bunch of other trailers, on account of it was done a week ago & I didn’t get the voicemail
Yes, this is both your cats & progress post for this week, on account of I’m picking up the trailer on Friday & aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa But I finished up the worktable, complete with shelf & lumber storage, & LOOK AT IT, IT IS SO GOOD Also Major Tom likes it a lot. Here, he is saying
Yesterday I picked up my new trailer. Today I did a bunch of measuring & planning & sketching & taking pictures & stuff. If I stick with my usual schedule of posting process posts only once a week, I’ll either be barely sketching out what I’m doing, or posting once a week well into 2023,
I’ve spent most of the week working on what I’m calling ‘tinker’s wagon infrastructure’, or stuff that’s gonna make the build easier — from buying a bench vise to making cutting guides specifically tailored to work with my roommate’s circular saw, thus allowing me, for the first time in my life, to cut wood, or
IT TURNS OUT that if you use right-angle thingers & clamps to hold your 2×2 pieces together, & then GLUE them into place, & ONLY THEN do you drill the pilot holes & put in the wood screws, it works a WHOLE LOT BETTER.
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Celebrating sixteen years of The Vagabond Tabby — & the sixteenth birthday of my VP of Marketing, the horriblest cat in the world, my dearest Loiosh.
(25% off everything in the shop — yes, it’s my biggest sale of the year! — running April 25 through May 1)