If every other battery-operated item maker, like tool makers, made things, we'd be battery locked on every device.
I think it's time to start pushing the tool-making industry for change.

Better

Been an odd fire. Tried swedish fire torch didn't go that good.

Umm... Only one, no idea why. Ring vibrate lose maybe? Normally hand tighten on a towel, didn't today. New canner.

The level of bull is mind-numbing. The Republican Party wasn't trying to pass a budget; they were trying to pass a 7-week CR (continuing resolution).

Apparently I need to re-lean python again. Doing manually in Excel what 4 years ago I would have automated with Python. The problem is I don't have the time to re-lean today.

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Took too long. But finally got 95% of the stuff planted. Will probably finish tomorrow (couple random starts).

Interesting. Apparently at some point the article I wrote for The Linux Journal for imported to ACM's digital library. It has 384 downloads.

First one this year. Beeswax paper fire starter (coffee filters with hand plane shavings) worked great. Once I threw a big enough spark off my fire steel.

Did he confuse the space station for the moon, or let slip the secret there is military base on the moon?

Told my wife, and the look on her face said it all. She shared your nauseousness

One down. 3 to go

I'm building a vanda style basket for a gift basket for an auction.

Other project I'm working on. Sanded today, wiped it down with water to remove dust. Will finish build tomorrow.

Not done yet. But ran out of light.

Need to add the eye hooks and jute twine still.

Next batch of wood to cut, the 78 inch ones are ready to oil and wax with my board butter.

3 ounces each. Extra went on a small pour. I also drop some of the over pour in the mains before it sets.

Making board butter

All waxed/oiled. Used my 4:1 raw linseed beeswax that I make. Softer than my old 3:1 recipe. Worked good. If you want to know more about the wax ask me.

Epoxy came out good. Ends should be sealed to sit on the ground. I wonder if i.cpuld have done that with wood glue instead. But I like the result.

I didn't take pictures of applying the epoxy. But now a 24 hour wait. These should be done by Monday.

Making a mold for the epoxy. Last board for this batch .

Finally got enough wood moved to get to the back wall. And first thing I did, cut the board a 1/16 too short.

Cutting a 2x4 like this is slow. But it is what I have / can get access too. My bench has limited space, and my circular saw is unreachable due to all the wood stacked up

The elders in my family used to laugh at the youngers. A regular thing for us was to eat cold pizza with room-temperature pop. Now I'm not like my cousin who left it out overnight (the pop) and drank it as long as it still fizzed.

But cold pizza and room-temperature pop is lunch

5 hours later, turned oven off a half hour ago. Happy with what got filtered out so far.