We’ve been making slow but steady progress on the many, many projects ongoing here at chez us. Having let the oiled pieces off-gas in the garage for about a week I took the opportunity to put them up this week – so we now have a step into our bathroom… Which is very, very pleasing.…

So I finally got myself together enough to tackle stripping down the Acorn A4 laptop. I’d been somewhat nervous about it because of all the admonishments on the forum that it’s a nightmare to get apart, and that it’s fragile. Now the latter part is true – it’s 30 years old this year – and…

So, I think mainly I decided for the sake of – lots of things really – that we should drywall the garage – and just run the cable for the power in there in conduit. Mostly this was about timing – we needed somewhere we could make somewhat warmer and drier for some project or…

So it being my long-work week last week I entered Sunday needing…something. My shifts had been somewhere between horrendous and atrocious, (every. single. day.) and so I felt a real pressing need to achieve something fulfulling. Kathryn and I spent a big chunk of the day planing down the boards that will become our kitchen…

Back when I was a baby trans, full of fear and excitement, there was a term, a term that was kind of wandering out of favour. Woodworking. By the time I was out and being me in the world, it was called being stealth. I was Stealth for quite a long time – at least,…

Today I was moderately productive. I managed – after some prevarication – to cut three pieces of trim, although one of them (for reasons I’ll talk about in a bit) isn’t ideal. I also built the spare tyre stand – because we’re both fairly bored of hauling the tyres up into the garage attic, we’d…

First up, our permit is signed off. While our house is no closer to completion than it was a week ago, when our house was signed off as legally complete by our permit inspector a huge weight lifted. We’re done with that part, and can move on to just finishing things that need finishing at…

Well, kinda. September 2017 we laid our hands on the keys to a shoddily built 1970’s ranch. Western Washington back in the day had the most wildly lax building regs, and the builders of this house took full advantage. Our floor is built on piers with beams spaced 4′ apart. The floor itself is just…

Today we started doing things again. I mean, not that we weren’t doing things. But the things we were doing were the things that are good for the soul that US society says have no value. Obviously they have value, and fuck that noise, but there are also things we need to get done which…

So, I think because I ramble a lot at @pyoor@mastodon.lol at the moment I’ve been writing less on here, or maybe this is about my consistent level that I’ve been at for a while. It’s been a minute anyhow. The house still, unsurprisingly isn’t signed off. I need to get on with that but with…