Month: May 2018
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Working like crazy
We put in a solid 16.5 hours this weekend on the house. And what did we do? Well, the two front windows, the last two…
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Cream crackered
So yesterday we got window number five in. That end of the building is also partially wrapped, which is nice: It’s slightly irritating that the…
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Less productive…
So yesterday I had a small plan for the morning – errand, B&Q Home Depot, fix lawn mower, maybe attach one of the exterior sockets.…
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Well, that was hot.
Not in the sense of hawt, obviously. Just fucking hot. So despite a predicted high of 28°C we’d made the plan to try and get…
Comments Off on Solidity arrives, and the garden continues
Solidity arrives, and the garden continues
Work has more or less continued apace. Wednesday was less productive than I might have hoped because of a pointless waste of my life dealing…
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Now with less lawn!
So, our project to almost completely eliminate the lawn has started. We had an incident yesterday at the farmer’s market. The usual kind of incident.…
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More electrics, more wood
So, having posted about trying to hodge it with the wrong tools yesterday; today I decided to suck it up and buy a new 90°…
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NEMA what?
So, thankfully despite it saying in my electrical book that some early NEMA marked cable had a smaller diameter earth wire than is the current…
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‘the fuck?
I am beginning to consider the possibility that Washington is not, in fact, made of the normal stuff that land is made of. Instead it…
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Other spaces
I’ve always been other. When I was a kid I was pretty much the only Asian kid in my class (I can’t find a school…