Weekend Hobby, Craft and Bodging Thread

Greetings gang. Snowy here in Wisconsin and so it's perfect weather for staying indoors and getting creative. I know I promised to have snaps of the bookcase but, alas, delays and more delays. Maybe next time. Remember, mañana doesn't mean tomorrow. It just means not now!

What are you all working on, have planned or just daydreaming about?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 04:55 PM

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1 Is getting the first post on a thread a hobby?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 28, 2023 04:56 PM (Bd6X8)

2 nd

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 28, 2023 04:59 PM (BRHaw)

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Posted by: rhennigantx at January 28, 2023 04:59 PM (BRHaw)

4 Finished my Bolt Action WWII 28mm miniature British Airborne army and have embarked on yet another army. this time I am staying British and doing Canadian Army. that let's me use the same tanks and vehicles between the two armies.

I found a killer deal on Amazon to kick start the Army. Granted they are plastic figures and I generally do not like them, but at that price point I made an exception and bought two of these starter army boxes, they will give me everything I need.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 28, 2023 05:00 PM (uNylN)

5 Welcome Hobbiests

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 05:00 PM (xhxe8)

6 Been playing with FT8 on 10 meters this week. Made contacts with Japan, Chile, Russia, and Canada.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 28, 2023 05:01 PM (Bd6X8)

7 So many hobbies I have wanted to do yet haven't started on them

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 05:02 PM (xhxe8)

8 I made a list of half-done or undone projects I want to complete this year:

1. blockprints for change-of-address cards
2. a painting of my grandparents' apple trees and barn
3. refinishing a cabinet

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 28, 2023 05:04 PM (/+bwe)

9 Certainly most interesting is the Arnham diorama

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 05:05 PM (xhxe8)

10 NaugtyPine, are you painting the trunks of the trees or are you going to make a painting of the trees?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 28, 2023 05:05 PM (xhaym)

11 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 28, 2023 05:07 PM (T4tVD)

12 Setting up the wood shop. Its been a few weeks since I started, and probably have a few weeks to go. Extra fun when most of your tools are still packed up and you have to search for things. I need a full up and running wood shop to set up the wood shop it seems.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 28, 2023 05:07 PM (VwHCD)

13 What are you all working on, have planned or just daydreaming about?

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sailing the Caribbean on my very own 200 foot yacht !

Posted by: runner at January 28, 2023 05:07 PM (V13WU)

14 28mm is a common ( seems to me metal or plastic, for Napoleonic plastic has gone 1/72 and not my q5 -18mm so plastic isn't a option

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 05:08 PM (xhxe8)

15 I have too many hobbies.

Main activities right now are working on re-backing and repairing a quilt Inspector"s grandma made for him when he was 14. She embroidered scenes from his childhood and little facts about his family's lives into 12 squares of a 25 patch twin size piece. I'm using a well washed twin sheet to replace the original backing that had fallen apart. The fabric is fragile, so even repaired it will have to be treated gently, but this way it can at least be laid on a bed.

The amazing thing is that his grandma made a quilt like that for each of her grandkids and they are individualized.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 28, 2023 05:10 PM (nC+QA)

16 Blanco - good for you! What was your power level? If/when I ever get my radio gear out of the basement, I'll be limited to 20W on my G-90.

Posted by: PabloD at January 28, 2023 05:13 PM (zP5wv)

17 Do wonder what glue the guy is using on that building since it's mostly plastic he is working with

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 05:14 PM (xhxe8)

18 Other thing I'm working on is combining the How to Host a Dungeon world creator with RPGMaker VX Ace to make a playable game. It's called So My Sheep May Safely Graze and the point is to find/rescue Fred the Shepherd's sheep who have wandered into dungeon through a recently opened sinkhole. In the process the player finds out about the history of the area.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 28, 2023 05:15 PM (nC+QA)

19 Catching up on continuing to organize the baseball card collection. And having made several purchases this week, I have more coming, because there's no one here to tell me not to.

Meanwhile, the guitar I bought about a month ago sits here, untouched for about three weeks.

There is such a thing as having too much time on one's hands.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 28, 2023 05:18 PM (M2qSa)

20 Back in the early '70s, my brother built what was we think the first geodesic house in Oklahoma. 30-foot diameter 3/4 dome. Remarkably roomy three-bedroom two bath.

The stories I could tell about its construction and deterioration! Just one:

Woody was one of those do-everything old hands who had worked for our grandfather and father. He was the main builder, fitting standard windows and doors and walls into that wacky shape, and did a great job.

Came time to spray-insulate the interior. Woody told my brother, make sure that the foam is as deep as the wood frame. Then Woody drove off the ranch to town. Brother wrote a check to the insulators, and drove off the ranch to town. The insulators, you guessed it, immediately packed up, and drove off the ranch to town. The place never did get finished right.

Geodesics like to move and "breathe." The fiberglass outer coating cracked and leaked. Nothing got repaired. Brother moved away and just left it. MiladyJo and I went to close the place out. Meat left in the freezer with no electricity. Dad's great old roll-top desk right under a major leak, destroyed, and full of wasps' nests.

Coat the whole thing in concrete!

Posted by: mindful webworker - Fuller was an idiot at January 28, 2023 05:20 PM (P+TmF)

21 That Landscape Artist of the Year series, shown on the local PBS station, is both interesting and frustrating. It's interesting in that it shows many different styles of art: oil, pen and ink, linocut, collage, pastel, etc. Frustrating in that it doesn't deal with the techniques in much detail. Also, the judges are such modern Euro types. A painting must not be too 'twee' or pleasant or pretty. Every time they use twee as a negative, I want to see someone punch them in the mouth. Ninety percent of the time I don't agree with their choices.

There's a companion series, Portrait Artist of the Year. I haven't seen it yet.

Posted by: JTB at January 28, 2023 05:20 PM (7EjX1)

22 10 NaugtyPine, are you painting the trunks of the trees or are you going to make a painting of the trees?
Posted by: Kindltot at January 28, 2023 05:05 PM

A landscape painting.

Painting the trunks would probably be coating them with insect deterrent.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 28, 2023 05:22 PM (/+bwe)

23 Main activities right now are working on re-backing and repairing a quilt Inspector"s grandma made for him when he was 14.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 28, 2023 05:10 PM (nC+QA)

What a great thing to have! I have a couple of quilts that I helped my grandmother finish shortly before she passed. The fabric is very old, though, and fragile, so I just store them in the closet. Dogs would destroy them.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 28, 2023 05:22 PM (OX9vb)

24 Guy sewed leather better than I did on my work coat, ah, serviceable enough

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 05:23 PM (xhxe8)

25 Working on shrouds and backstays on my latest ship model. Slow going.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at January 28, 2023 05:23 PM (9X60i)

26 I'm replacing the shower upstairs, which requires some tile work first. That's what I have been doing all day. Not really my idea of fun. My hobby seems to be being a cheapskate.

Posted by: fd at January 28, 2023 05:25 PM (iayUP)

27 How easy would it be to make this from scratch instead of buying the kit? I assume I'd need to borrow someone's workshop to cut the ends of the lumber and drill a straight hole in the ends for the rods. I've never used power woodworking tools except a handheld drill.

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=OM2B8SJw5pM

Posted by: Emmie at January 28, 2023 05:25 PM (Emce2)

28 There's a companion series, Portrait Artist of the Year. I haven't seen it yet.
Posted by: JTB at January 28, 2023 05:20 PM

I added them to my watchlists, but I was put off by a clip. The judges came across as close-minded.

Your comment doesn't encourage me.

OTOH I watched Garden of the Year and enjoyed it.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 28, 2023 05:25 PM (/+bwe)

29 Where in WI are you? I'm midway between Beloit and Janesville on 32 acres.
Perhaps you could visit - I've got a 100-yard range out back.

Posted by: Chuck Kuecker at January 28, 2023 05:25 PM (w0YM7)

30 Blanco - good for you! What was your power level? If/when I ever get my radio gear out of the basement, I'll be limited to 20W on my G-90.

I'm pumping 100 W. That's into a Super Antenna MP1, so it's still low power once it goes through that less than efficient radiator.

Once I know the snow is done for the year I'd like to get an EFHW strung up between the trees.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 28, 2023 05:25 PM (Bd6X8)

31 Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 28, 2023 05:22 PM (OX9vb)

If I can't get it to work I was thinking of turning the squares into a flip book. It's very important to both of us that the embroidered pieces are preserved in some way.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 28, 2023 05:26 PM (nC+QA)

32 I had to chip the mortar off a bunch of tiles to reuse them. I used my oscillating multitool to chip away at it. It worked pretty good, only broke one tile.

Posted by: fd at January 28, 2023 05:28 PM (iayUP)

33 There's a companion series, Portrait Artist of the Year. I haven't seen it yet.
Posted by: JTB at January 28, 2023 05:20 PM

I added them to my watchlists, but I was put off by a clip. The judges came across as close-minded.

Your comment doesn't encourage me.

OTOH I watched Garden of the Year and enjoyed it.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 28, 2023 05:25 PM (/+bwe)

Yeah, I want to see the paintings, but have absolutely no interest in hearing what these tired old snobs have to say about them.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 28, 2023 05:28 PM (M2qSa)

34 I'm replacing the shower upstairs, which requires some tile work first. That's what I have been doing all day. Not really my idea of fun. My hobby seems to be being a cheapskate.

I had to replace the kitchen faucet this morning. Old one had a pinhole leak on top of the aerator. I could have paid a plumber, but then I would have been charged for the time it would have taken him to find the set screw that wasn't included with the new faucet.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 28, 2023 05:30 PM (Bd6X8)

35 The flip book is a great idea, Polliwog.

My stepmother recently made a quilt for my sister, using our grandmother's handkerchiefs. It is so pretty. She made me one using fabric that belonged to my late sister. My stepmother makes beautiful quilts, and puts so much thought into what is meaningful to the recipient.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 28, 2023 05:30 PM (OX9vb)

36 I have a couple of very old double hung windows with about 20 coats of paint on them. I have been thinking of cleaning them up and using them to display photographs. I think it would look interesting.

Any thoughts about how to attach the photos from behind after I clean the excess paint and repaint them? Foam attached to particle board?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 28, 2023 05:31 PM (XIJ/X)

37 I'm arranging the cigars in my "wineadore." A tabletop humidor with HVAC.

*sniffs condescendingly*

You wouldn't understand.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 28, 2023 05:31 PM (Q4IgG)

38 I have to replace bathroom faucets someday, hopefully when I want not a emergency, but will require possibly tile replacement if a new doesn't match old. Leaks now but is manageable with cup under leak.

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 05:32 PM (xhxe8)

39
I spent nearly 30 years ignoring my garage. After six weeks of work I've now achieved a level of cleanliness that my wife recently told a neighbor she'd consider 'moving into it". I'm thinking art studio eventually. With a nice ceramic tile floor and suitable lighting for painting. Wallboard over the existing cinder block walls.

Unfortunately it's gotta go to position 99 of my 100 'things I gotta do' list. Two bathroom makeovers from 20 years ago are unfortunately showing their age.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 28, 2023 05:32 PM (enJYY)

40 Bodger bodger bodger bodger bodger
Mushroom mushroom!

Posted by: A snake, a snake! at January 28, 2023 05:34 PM (UKe2c)

41 39
I spent nearly 30 years ignoring my garage. After six weeks of work I've now achieved a level of cleanliness that my wife recently told a neighbor she'd consider 'moving into it".

*Ponders cleaning garage...

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 28, 2023 05:35 PM (OX9vb)

42 Yeah, I want to see the paintings, but have absolutely no interest in hearing what these tired old snobs have to say about them.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 28, 2023 05:28 PM

The HOW of painting is interesting, even if the end product is something I don't like.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 28, 2023 05:39 PM (/+bwe)

43 I did get the starter off the old Fiat last week. Rebuilt it an put it back on. It spins real good now. You have to pull the intake and exhaust manifold off to get to it. 6 nuts total holding both on. They made 'em simple back then.

Posted by: fd at January 28, 2023 05:39 PM (iayUP)

44 Divide By Zero, that is very high praise!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 28, 2023 05:39 PM (/+bwe)

45 There's one unexpected aspect to the drawing hobby: I notice possible things to draw EVERYWHERE. A print on the wall of a doctor's waiting room, a scene on a Christmas card, the world's oldest olive tree pictured on today's gardening thread (especially enlarging the trunk), sunlight hitting highly figured wood at just the right angle, and so on and so forth. I can get lost trying to figure out how I could attempt the image in graphite or pastel or colored pencil or charcoal or Conte crayon. (This doesn't mean a good image, just the attempt.)

I never expected this aspect of the hobby to be so strong. It's cool but strange.

Posted by: JTB at January 28, 2023 05:39 PM (7EjX1)

46 All, a query. I want a nice case to hold some of my CD collection (IMHO, if you don't own the physical medium, you don't own the music). However, the space for it is of odd dimensions, and I'd like to have it of solid wood rather than that particle-board crap. So I'm thinking perhaps doing it myself - or better yet, assembling a kit. I'm up to assembling and finishing a wooden case, but I wouldn't want to attempt to cut the pieces myself (I don't have a power saw - being an amateur musician, I don't want to risk an accident that would end my playing). Could anyone recommend a place where I could get such a kit? I've looked around the intertubes, but nothing leaps up at me.

Thanks much!

Posted by: Nemo at January 28, 2023 05:40 PM (S6ArX)

47 When something starts out as a hobby and then you do it for money professionally, is it no longer a hobby?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 28, 2023 05:42 PM (jTmQV)

48 When something starts out as a hobby and then you do it for money professionally, is it no longer a hobby?
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 28, 2023 05:42 PM (jTmQV

Depends if you still enjoy it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, hoarder and wrecker at January 28, 2023 05:43 PM (IYY/C)

49 Nemo somewhere like Home Depot or Lowes can cut your lumber for you. You just need to design your case and get the dimensions of the pieces. Go to the store first to look and lumber, then design your case around something commonly available.

Posted by: fd at January 28, 2023 05:44 PM (iayUP)

50 I have been doing counted thread stitching for more than forty years. And I just managed to screw up a Mill Hill Bead and Button kit so badly that I had to order a new one. And I spent all this afternoon stitching then ripping out a From Nancy's Needle canvas project. I could just spit nails right now. Forty some years and I'm doing worse than a newbie! Gah!!!

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at January 28, 2023 05:45 PM (z7W9M)

51 > When something starts out as a hobby and then you do it for money professionally, is it no longer a hobby?
_____________

Like... you know (whispers)... sex?

Posted by: The Paolo at January 28, 2023 05:45 PM (Q4IgG)

52 6 ... "Been playing with FT8 on 10 meters this week. Made contacts with Japan, Chile, Russia, and Canada."

Blanco,

Congrats on those nice contacts. Ten meters can be amazing. Also, I've heard predictions that the coming solar cycle is supposed to be really good. I need to get my CW skills back, they have rusted to almost nothing. And get the Ten-Tec Corsair and a QRP rig set up. Maybe this summer.

Posted by: JTB at January 28, 2023 05:46 PM (7EjX1)

53 You could make something out of 1X8 pine boards and stain or paint it.

Posted by: fd at January 28, 2023 05:46 PM (iayUP)

54 I'm taking up an old hobby that I was quite good at long ago.
Shooting pool. I noticed that my bank shots were not falling and my straight shots were not much better.
So I'm going to gently dump all the balls out of their pockets, including the cue ball, and take whatever shot presents itself (until I can improve my shooting I will ignore setting up for my next shot).
I believe this will occupy much of my free time.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 28, 2023 05:47 PM (ywZXi)

55 That drill press restoration is amazing!

Been working on a couple of antique television receivers, one is the classic RCA 630 from 1946, the first post war receiver commercially available in mass quantity after the war. Another is a Motorola 7" set. Finished my 1959 RCA CTC-9 color TV a few months ago, but need to revisit a problem in the vertical deflection circuit.

Tinkering with electronics as a kid led me to a lifelong career in the field. My childhood hobby became my vocation for over 53 years, 34 as a television broadcast engineer. And I haven't stopped "tinkering". People ask me after I retired if I was bored. Never! Too many hobbies! LOL!! Add my model train layout to the mix and working on my 57 Chevy keeps me busy, for sure. A man's got to have a hobby.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at January 28, 2023 05:48 PM (Zvtjl)

56 "When something starts out as a hobby and then you do it for money professionally, is it no longer a hobby?"

It's a hobby you make money at. The question is, do you still enjoy it?

Posted by: fd at January 28, 2023 05:48 PM (iayUP)

57 Mentioned I bought a sketch pad, so far mot doodles

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 05:48 PM (xhxe8)

58
When something starts out as a hobby and then you do it for money professionally, is it no longer a hobby?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 28, 2023 05:42 PM

I think the IRS makes that decision for you. You hit a certain dollar figure of earnings above your expense deduction and bend over time. Been there.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 28, 2023 05:48 PM (enJYY)

59 I've always used Moen faucets.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 28, 2023 05:49 PM (DhOHl)

60 I miss regularly playing pool. I don't miss leagues, though.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, hoarder and wrecker at January 28, 2023 05:51 PM (IYY/C)

61 I'd say if you do it for a living, you are a professional. If it's a side thing, you can still do a great job, maybe even better than a professional. A pro after all, has to make money. A hobbyist may not care how long it take to get a perfect result.

Posted by: fd at January 28, 2023 05:51 PM (iayUP)

62 HOBBIEZZZ

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 28, 2023 05:51 PM (BtmcP)

63 >Like... you know (whispers)... sex?

I wouldn't know.

Posted by: Comma la at January 28, 2023 05:52 PM (DhOHl)

64 Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at January 28, 2023 05:45 PM (z7W9M)

Is that cross stitch?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 28, 2023 05:52 PM (BtmcP)

65 Yeah, I want to see the paintings, but have absolutely no interest in hearing what these tired old snobs have to say about them.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 28, 2023 05:28 PM

The HOW of painting is interesting, even if the end product is something I don't like.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 28, 2023 05:39 PM (/+bwe)

There's something about modern painting I don't care for, and I don't mean abstract stuff, which I sometimes love.

No, landscapes in particular, I don't quite know how to put my finger on it, but I generally find newer works, even ones found in museums, off-putting.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 28, 2023 05:52 PM (M2qSa)

66 When something starts out as a hobby and then you do it for money professionally, is it no longer a hobby?

Posted by: gourmand

If you get to spend time doing your 'hobby' for yourself enjoyment it stays a hobby.
If you spend all your time getting paid for 'jobs' and never get to spend anymore time doing the hobby for fun... it's a full time job.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 28, 2023 05:52 PM (ywZXi)

67 "Particle board crap"? WTAF

Posted by: Allen and His Wrench at January 28, 2023 05:54 PM (Qzn2/)

68 The amazing thing is that his grandma made a quilt like that for each of her grandkids and they are individualized.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

That is amazing. Real heirlooms.
Are you handsewing the new backing then?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 28, 2023 05:54 PM (BtmcP)

69 I miss regularly playing pool. I don't miss leagues, though.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

I never played leagues; but, I was good enough that it became less fun when there few players to challenge me.
I think this could happen again; but, I suspect my highly competitive wife will step up her game soon.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 28, 2023 05:54 PM (ywZXi)

70 Would Tim Allen's wife be an allen wench?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 28, 2023 05:55 PM (DhOHl)

71 Does a murder simulator (Hitman: World of Assassination) count as a hobby? Asking for a friend...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 28, 2023 05:56 PM (BpYfr)

72 It was difficult to get rhythm in leagues. Plus the distractions.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, hoarder and wrecker at January 28, 2023 05:57 PM (IYY/C)

73 That would be my wife.

Posted by: Steve Allen at January 28, 2023 05:57 PM (iayUP)

74 Would Tim Allen's wife be an allen wench?

--------

Good God, you've summoned Muldoon.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2023 05:57 PM (Qzn2/)

75 Does a murder simulator (Hitman: World of Assassination) count as a hobby? Asking for a friend...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

You can't fool us, reading is your hobby.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 28, 2023 05:57 PM (ywZXi)

76 I've been building a new computer.

That'll teach me to build my own.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 28, 2023 05:58 PM (iZEhM)

77 Blanco,

Congrats on those nice contacts. Ten meters can be amazing. Also, I've heard predictions that the coming solar cycle is supposed to be really good. I need to get my CW skills back, they have rusted to almost nothing. And get the Ten-Tec Corsair and a QRP rig set up. Maybe this summer.

Thanks! I was on 11 meters during the 80's and was talking to Australia almost every day at one point with only 12 W PEP on SSB.

This cycle is supposed to be better than that. So you might want to consider stretching and strength exercises for you keying hand.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 28, 2023 05:58 PM (Bd6X8)

78 It was difficult to get rhythm in leagues. Plus the distractions.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

I might still have that problem playing with my wife...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 28, 2023 05:58 PM (ywZXi)

79 Willowed: Yes indeed! Remembering them as the individuals they were is the best way.

We laid Sandy to rest about 30 minutes ago. Digging in the woods is a bitch, and digging a grave is a somber experience.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 28, 2023

***
I've kept my cats' ashes with me -- a bookshelf of little urns. Arizona the part-Maine Coon, I believed he thought he should have been a bobcat, so I scattered his ashes in the CO mountains where local told me bobcats are known to roam.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2023 05:59 PM (omVj0)

81 I've been building a new computer.

That'll teach me to build my own.

I built this one, and it hardly ever catches on fire. So you should be good to go.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 28, 2023 05:59 PM (Bd6X8)

82 My life is sorta a hobby/experiment. ha. I have so many unfinished projects, and yet feel relatively secure for zombie times. ... But the refinements of some of those videos of trains and geodesic domes ... WOW.

My thinking is to have "hobbies" that also support sovereignty, and perhaps survival. (sawmill, old tractors that serve a purpose, guns of course, etc.) But the arts are for the more civilized society, and many of these hobbies are art. Awesome stuff.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 28, 2023 06:00 PM (Cus5s)

83 I've been building a new computer.

That'll teach me to build my own.
Posted by: Cybersmythe

Self built can be the most expensive computers!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 28, 2023 06:01 PM (ywZXi)

84 "That'll teach me to build my own.
Posted by: Cybersmythe"

What went wrong?

Posted by: fd at January 28, 2023 06:01 PM (iayUP)

85 That'll teach me to build my own.
Posted by: Cybersmythe"

What went wrong?
Posted by: fd

He might have let the smoke out!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 28, 2023 06:02 PM (ywZXi)

86 I learned something this week. I had a rec room in the basement painted blood red. We called it the 'murder' room - yeah, that red. Anyway, in preparation for the final new color the woman at Sherwin Williams said she would tint the primer with just a bit of black and that would help to knock down that red. She was right. Completely covered it and now it is ready for the final coat.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 28, 2023 06:04 PM (qoGsy)

87
I was hoping REDACTED would be here - I have questions...about wood.

In the meantime, let me rant about Wallpaper.
Never put up wallpaper. There is not one good reason to ever choose wallpaper.

1. You hate the pattern after 2 years and you're sick of looking at it. 2. The seams begin to separate after 3 years. And C) It's Irreparable!!

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at January 28, 2023 06:04 PM (v2fyE)

88 One thing you have to watch nowadays when buying a MB and power supply is that the PS has the right damn connectors. Even the modular power supplies might not come with the right cables.

Posted by: fd at January 28, 2023 06:04 PM (iayUP)

89 Pixy make it sound building your own easy

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 06:05 PM (xhxe8)

90
Tonypete, you're here.
How are you with identifying wood species and finishes?

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at January 28, 2023 06:05 PM (v2fyE)

91 Do you have any of Danny Gregory's art books? He started drawing after his wife had a bad accident. Ane he drew things he had in the house. They are very inspirational.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 28, 2023 06:05 PM (4IUUf)

92 I had dinner with Buckminster Fuller once. What a remarkable man. Never built one of his domes though I have been in several.

Posted by: pawn at January 28, 2023 06:06 PM (kYVzH)

93 "I had dinner with Buckminster Fuller once"

That is really cool. What was the occasion?

Posted by: fd at January 28, 2023 06:08 PM (iayUP)

94 I could just spit nails right now. Forty some years and I'm doing worse than a newbie! Gah!!!

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at January 28, 2023 05:45 PM (z7W9M)

The number of times I've failed to count to *two* successfully while doing canvas embroidery is staggering.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 28, 2023 06:08 PM (nC+QA)

95
And of course I bought a house with a Yellow kitchen.
And wallpaper galore. And a baby blue bathroom with some sort of nautical motif trim.

Of course that's what I ended up with, because that's my manifest destiny. My fate. My lot in Life.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at January 28, 2023 06:09 PM (v2fyE)

96 Tonypete, you're here.
How are you with identifying wood species and finishes?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Pretty fair - Berserker too! Hold it up to the screen - we'll see what we can do.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 28, 2023 06:09 PM (qoGsy)

97 Back in the day... building your own computer was the snizz. I recall drooling over the various catalogs with parts.

Fry's was the bomb. I think they might be DOA now?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 28, 2023 06:10 PM (Q4IgG)

98 I enjoyed the video on making the leather card case. Part of the fun in the traditional muzzleloading hobby involves making some of your own gear like a flint wallet, knife sheath or shooting bag.

The Townsends Plus website has several videos on leatherworking that aren't on their YT site. The leatherworker and blacksmithing videos are my favorites.

Posted by: JTB at January 28, 2023 06:11 PM (7EjX1)

99 That is amazing. Real heirlooms.
Are you handsewing the new backing then?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 28, 2023 05:54 PM (BtmcP)

Yes. I promised him when we got married that I'd give it a try, and I've been getting practice, and watching videos, since then so that I could have a chance of doing this correctly.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 28, 2023 06:12 PM (nC+QA)

100
1. You hate the pattern after 2 years and you're sick of looking at it. 2. The seams begin to separate after 3 years. And C) It's Irreparable!!
Posted by: Soothsayer
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AKA, the joys of home ownership.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 28, 2023 06:12 PM (yMEwp)

101 Sooth - can you take a pic and shoot it to me? Contact info in nic.

*Remembering the last time I asked for, and received, a picture from one of the Horde. Jeeze Hon.. . *

Posted by: Tonypete at January 28, 2023 06:12 PM (qoGsy)

102 And of course I bought a house with a Yellow kitchen.
And wallpaper galore. And a baby blue bathroom with some sort of nautical motif trim.

Of course that's what I ended up with, because that's my manifest destiny. My fate. My lot in Life.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at January 28, 2023

***
After nearly 50 years of living in apartments with nothing but white walls and ceilings, I find that combo does not sound bad at all. The spots on TV for Jacuzzi showers annoy me, as they are all in some shade of gray. How about a nice shade of '50s bathroom tile blue or green, with white trim?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2023 06:12 PM (omVj0)

103 I recently rebuilt an 18 year old Weber gas grill for an offspring. It's got many years of life left in it and they are a pleasure to cook on.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 28, 2023 06:12 PM (DhOHl)

104 *Remembering the last time I asked for, and received, a picture from one of the Horde. Jeeze Hon.. . *
Posted by: Tonypete

LOL

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 28, 2023 06:13 PM (OX9vb)

105 "Bucky" was giving a seminar at a Whole Earth style conference back in the day in Athens, Ohio. There was a lot of interest in "alternative' architecture at the time. I was studying stressed skin construction (fancy tents) and inflatables as part of my studies.

I talked him into giving a informal colloquium at the University and I was amazed at how many of the professors showed up.

Posted by: pawn at January 28, 2023 06:13 PM (kYVzH)

106
Tonypete, please examine the 2 tables in these photos (if the link works). I want to refinish the tops.

https://tinyurl.com/2p89vp7w

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at January 28, 2023 06:15 PM (v2fyE)

107 I talked him into giving a informal colloquium at the University and I was amazed at how many of the professors showed up.
Posted by: pawn

Ah yes - "The Harvard on the Hocking".

Posted by: Tonypete at January 28, 2023 06:15 PM (qoGsy)

108 Fry's was the bomb. I think they might be DOA now?

Oh, yeah. They were already in trouble and then the coof was the final nail in their coffin.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 28, 2023 06:16 PM (Bd6X8)

109 Sanford and son was a great show.

Posted by: Ray Epps brigade at January 28, 2023 06:16 PM (jtAgP)

110 "I had dinner with Buckminster Fuller once"
Posted by: pawn

That is really cool. What was the occasion?
Posted by: fd

Celebrating his victory in the Buckyball tournament?

Posted by: mikeski at January 28, 2023 06:17 PM (P1f+c)

111 Didn't use the third bathroom much, then we had a dry spell and it rained, then the house settled. Well, half the house settled which torqued the old cast iron sewer pipe. Cracked all the way it was.

Plumber left a few minuets ago; down stairs ceiling has big holes in it but the commode doesn't leak. He's coming back tomorrow to roto route the 2" lines.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 28, 2023 06:17 PM (oQbRJ)

112 Sooth looks easy enough to refinish

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 06:18 PM (xhxe8)

113 Fry's was the bomb. I think they might be DOA now?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 28, 2023 06:10 PM (Q4IgG)

Very. Hope the NASA artifacts in the Webster one went to a good home. They might have done better if they'd had decent customer service the last 10 years. I'd walk in and there's be a half dozen employees in the electronics area all talking and studiously ignoring me. Last straw was when one didn't know what an Amazon Paperwhite was.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 28, 2023 06:18 PM (nC+QA)

114 Did you go to Buc-ee's?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 28, 2023 06:18 PM (DhOHl)

115 1. You hate the pattern after 2 years and you're sick of looking at it. 2. The seams begin to separate after 3 years. And C) It's Irreparable!!
Posted by: Soothsayer
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AKA, the joys of home ownership.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 28, 2023 06:12 PM (yMEwp)
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And especially NEVER put wallpaper in the bathrooms!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 28, 2023 06:18 PM (BpYfr)

116 The first one is definitely Oak. The second, not sure - it could be a number of things. But probably a maple. But yeah, go ahead and take off those old finishes, lightly sand, and then clean it up.

What are you thinking about the finish? What purpose will they serve?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 28, 2023 06:19 PM (qoGsy)

117
Sooth looks easy enough to refinish
Posted by: Skip

Please go on.
You think it's a polyurethane on both tables? Can I use a palm sander, or do I need chemicals?

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at January 28, 2023 06:19 PM (v2fyE)

118 Yep I think Frye's went out of biz a few years back. Shame. Not a computer-builder myself, but it was an interesting store anyway.

The enormous shrinkage of brick-and-mortar has been a serious degradation in consumer life in various areas, and the cost savings don't come close to compensating.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2023 06:19 PM (OTzUX)

119 Wow. A plumber who does minuets. $$$$?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 28, 2023 06:20 PM (DhOHl)

120 OU was the informal birthplace of the Rorer 714 craze. There was a lot of wild stuff going on in that little town. I always wondered if anyone actually managed to graduate.

Posted by: pawn at January 28, 2023 06:20 PM (kYVzH)

121 That must have been quite an experience pawn. What a great inventor.

Posted by: fd at January 28, 2023 06:20 PM (iayUP)

122 Top is oak, bottom probably maple

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 06:20 PM (xhxe8)

123 My winter project was finishing the exhaust for my '52 Hudson Hornet. Installed tube headers and built a simple dual exhaust but just did flex pipe from headers to exhaust for the sake of getting it running 3+ years ago. 3D Printed some snap together layout pieces and attempted remembering my TIG welding skills from 15 years ago. Overall, pretty good, much better than flex pipe.

Posted by: tRusty Hudson at January 28, 2023 06:21 PM (cvNC0)

124 Wallpaper is pretty easy to take down. Hot water will do it. I love yellow kitchens! And we had nautical wallpaper trim at the old house.

I have to figure out what to do with the kitchen floor. It's that OMB stuff with some vinyl tiles slapped on it. Needs something to smooth it out. And the bathroom is awful, meaning they hacked a space for the new tub/shower and just left it like that. You can see the studs and exterior siding. And there's a window they just put tar paper over.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 28, 2023 06:21 PM (4IUUf)

125 And of course I got the satin finish, not the flat, for the small amount of paint I need to touch up around a new thermostat and paint over the marks on the walls from the furnace replacement. And I *think* the walls were flat, if only because the other colors used for bedrooms (of which, of course, there are remnants and labels) were flat, apparently. Swiss coffee color, so standard neutral off-white stuff. I guess if it doesn't look right I'll just use it as primer in the one room still to be painted, and go get the flat version.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2023 06:21 PM (OTzUX)

126 Posted by: Allen and His Wrench at January 28, 2023
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As an aside, from Wiki:
"W.G. Allen filed the first related patent in 1909 for its recessed hex-driven safety screws, a safety improvement over fasteners which protruded from machinery. While other hex keys were patented before and after this date, the name would persist. Allen left the company shortly after."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 28, 2023 06:22 PM (q0Hle)

127 I've kept my cats' ashes with me -- a bookshelf of little urns. Arizona the part-Maine Coon, I believed he thought he should have been a bobcat, so I scattered his ashes in the CO mountains where local told me bobcats are known to roam.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2023 05:59 PM (omVj0)

I just ordered two more urns, the two cats who have been gone several years have been in the boxes they were returned in, inside cute little see through bags. Now they'll be in more solid containers. They've urned it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 28, 2023 06:22 PM (M2qSa)

128 Enormous shrinkage?

I was in the pool!!

Posted by: George Costanza at January 28, 2023 06:22 PM (DhOHl)

129 Sooth , whatever you want, poly, mineral oil, varnish.
Sand, steel wool, clean up and apply finish.

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 06:22 PM (xhxe8)

130 They might have done better if they'd had decent customer service the last 10 years.

Fry's "technical" salesweasel tried to tell me you can't have two routers on the same network. OK, it's only how the internet works, but do go on.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 28, 2023 06:22 PM (Bd6X8)

131 ZOD.

Posted by: ZOD at January 28, 2023 06:23 PM (Q/6pY)

132 120 OU was the informal birthplace of the Rorer 714 craze. There was a lot of wild stuff going on in that little town.
Posted by: pawn at January 28, 2023 06:20 PM (kYVzH)

I cannot lie; I miss 714s.

But now that I'm 29, I just want them so I can have a painless night's sleep once in a while.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 28, 2023 06:23 PM (OX9vb)

133 Desk would polyurethane for durability work, oak table can do same or use mineral oil

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 06:24 PM (xhxe8)

134
You reckon it's oak, Skip? Makes sense.
It's heavy as heck. Heavier than the slightly larger other one.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at January 28, 2023 06:24 PM (v2fyE)

135 106 ... Soothsayer,

I'm no expert but have refinished a few pieces over the years. The table in the upper left made me think of chestnut. The one next to it looked like oak. Just a guess.

Posted by: JTB at January 28, 2023 06:24 PM (7EjX1)

136 I've built many many PCs over the years. Probably a dozen last year. Either BHPhoto or Newegg are my primary sources.

Pro tip: ( I do make a living at it). BHPhoto has a credit card that will credit the sales tax back to you when you use it. For me, that's 8 percent on what can be a $2-4k order.

Posted by: fd at January 28, 2023 06:24 PM (iayUP)

137 He was actually extremely inspiring to me. Something about that guy. It was like being in some kind of presence and I wasn't the only one that felt it.

He had a steak.

I thought that was kind of amusing, considering.

Posted by: pawn at January 28, 2023 06:24 PM (kYVzH)

138 Zod's wine-fridge-cum-cheese-cave died. Cheesemaking has been temporarily suspended.

Work and research continue on the Saudi Arabia and Maximilian Von Spee manuscripts.

Sculpey--a budding interest.

Posted by: ZOD at January 28, 2023 06:25 PM (Q/6pY)

139 They do appear to be some type of poly razamataz. Paint stripper should remove it without too much trouble. But then clean it real well.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 28, 2023 06:25 PM (qoGsy)

140 Hudson Hornet

Landlord has a Hudson hornet Hollywood in the back yard, unrestored and a little crusty, but a beaut.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at January 28, 2023 06:25 PM (nbo+T)

141 The enormous shrinkage of brick-and-mortar has been a serious degradation in consumer life in various areas, and the cost savings don't come close to compensating.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2023

***
What was a premier Target store in the suburbs has ripped out half of its checkout counters, leaving an enormous bare spot in the floor; and the shelves had enormous gaps in stocking. Bed Bath & Beyond is dying on the vine too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2023 06:25 PM (omVj0)

142
Skip, I definitely want durability on both. One will be my kitchen table. Poly seems the best option -- I don't mind the extra drying time between coats.

How hard is it to strip those finishes to bare wood?

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at January 28, 2023 06:27 PM (v2fyE)

143 Bed, Bath, and Beyond employees are joining a Knoxville- based "sanitation cult." It's odd.

More to follow.

Posted by: ZOD at January 28, 2023 06:27 PM (Q/6pY)

144 What's the status of JT's birdbath?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 28, 2023 06:28 PM (DhOHl)

145 Desk tops probably has poly, can try stripper or have at it and sand it off.

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 06:28 PM (xhxe8)

146 anything I want to build...is out there built a lot better by professionals....

Posted by: runner at January 28, 2023 06:29 PM (V13WU)

147
The table in the upper left made me think of chestnut. The one next to it looked like oak. Just a guess.
Posted by: JTB

I haven't even considered chestnut. Maybe. I wonder if the color in the pics are influencing your opinion.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at January 28, 2023 06:30 PM (v2fyE)

148 Finishing a quilt as a gift for a friend is at the top of my hobby list. Top is done, ready to quilt it. Finally got all the Christmas crap off of my sewing table and put away. I have two ideas for mixed media art, going to have to wait until the quilt is finished. Haven't done any art in a couple of years, looking forward to doing these.

Posted by: TecumsehTea-not a resident troll at January 28, 2023 06:30 PM (BjGT6)

149 Painting the trunks would probably be coating them with insect deterrent.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 28, 2023 05:22 PM (/+bwe)

He paints naughty little trees

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 28, 2023 06:31 PM (BtmcP)

150 We are now at T-minus 33 days until nearly a million Arizona school children are faced with an early, disastrous end to their school year.

Unless, that is, the Arizona Legislature takes action to protect the public schools.
So, well, you can see why I’m worried.
I’m not the only one.

State Superintendent Tom Horne on Thursday painted a dire picture of what will happen to Arizona’s public schools if our leaders don’t waive this year’s constitutional cap on spending. If they don’t allow the schools to spend $1.4 billion that’s already in their bank account.

We shut down school for Whuflu! No issues.
Shut down school because we cannot spend unlimited $$

Baderer!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 28, 2023 06:31 PM (BRHaw)

151 Back in the day... building your own computer was the snizz. I recall drooling over the various catalogs with parts.

Fry's was the bomb. I think they might be DOA now?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 28, 2023 06:10 PM (Q4IgG)

Been using Microcenter (the one in Paterson) for years. A literal superstore of computer stuff.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at January 28, 2023 06:32 PM (Zvtjl)

152 Hopefully JT's birdbath didn't boil over, it got to 50s and sunny.

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 06:32 PM (xhxe8)

153 Arnhem! That reminds that I haven't listened to the score of "A Bridge Too Far" in too many years.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 28, 2023 06:34 PM (d9Cw3)

154 Desk top more than likely stained and hard wood, underneath could tell better

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 06:34 PM (xhxe8)

155 So my friend built about a 100k wood shop, he has more $$ than brains. So now he wants to make $$.

So I came up with a utube channel.

Wood U!
Hot gals in read my lips shorts doing Wood projects.

Wood U Watch
Wood U work with her
Wood U like a t shirt
...

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 28, 2023 06:35 PM (BRHaw)

156 Good evening, Horde. Tomorrow will see how well a gutter repair will work. A foot long patch on a100 feet of gutter 25ft off the ground.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 28, 2023 06:35 PM (s3Enk)

157 The FDA says get used to COVID-19 vaccine boosters.

Federal Death Admin!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 28, 2023 06:36 PM (BRHaw)

158 152 Hopefully JT's birdbath didn't boil over, it got to 50s and sunny.
Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 06:32 PM (xhxe

he is slicing carrots and celeries for soup!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 28, 2023 06:38 PM (BRHaw)

159 Skip, since you're doing office hours on wood work, I will need (or want to) refinish my butcher-block work bench (which is also the reloading bench). The finish is just dulled, scuffed, marked up/stained in various places.

As with most painting and refinishing, the prep will be 80% of the work - in this case disassembling the sucker (has steel legs and framework, guy I bought it from assembled it in about 10 minutes, so if I get some sockets for the power drill, maybe that won't be much work).

Just wondering about how best to strip and refinish. What to use. I assume it's got some kind of polyurethane finish on it now. Would want the heaviest-duty finish I can, to prolong the life of a "nice" surface as much as possible, and the bench sees lots of work.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2023 06:38 PM (OTzUX)

160 Microcenter is slap full of cool stuff. I hate going in there.

Posted by: fd at January 28, 2023 06:39 PM (iayUP)

161 A new mass shooting in California. Someone has a really twisted hobby.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 28, 2023 06:40 PM (anj39)

162 You can see the studs and exterior siding. And there's a window they just put tar paper over.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Prices are up these days. Just paid $54 for $10 worth of schedule 40, 4" PVC.

I suggest a nice Rose rosin paper from Home Depot for the window. If there's any new construction or destruction in your area you might find appropriate material for the walls.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 28, 2023 06:40 PM (oQbRJ)

163 Thing I didn't expect to find as a Twitter noob: JK Rowling gets more likes than anybody. Way more.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at January 28, 2023 06:40 PM (24fqN)

164 160 Microcenter is slap full of cool stuff. I hate going in there.
Posted by: fd at January 28, 2023 06:39 PM (iayUP)

The first time I went to Frys I did not know I needed a spare mouse ball.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 28, 2023 06:40 PM (BRHaw)

165 The FDA says get used to COVID-19 vaccine boosters.
Federal Death Admin!
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 28, 2023 06:36 PM (BRHaw)

Can't boost what I ain't got.

Fuck them.

Oh look! Manhattan time! One cherry only please.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 28, 2023 06:41 PM (R/m4+)

166 Before Joey, Craigslist would have material for the taking. "Take It, please."

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 28, 2023 06:42 PM (oQbRJ)

167 The FDA says get used to COVID-19 vaccine boosters.

Seriously ... makes about as much sense to me as the "Just be polite, and keep your hands on ten and two" bullshit.

Because both are bullshit.

Posted by: I-IV-V at January 28, 2023 06:42 PM (U93OM)

168 I've always used Moen faucets.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 28, 2023 05:49 PM (DhOHl)

That's not a Moen, it's a space station

Posted by: Ben "Kohler" Kenobi at January 28, 2023 06:43 PM (xhaym)

169 Soothsayer

When we moved we left a house that was done, as in everything was updated, painted, fixed, nice . . . and we got a house that was lived in by one family for 17 years but they lived in it like it was a rental. And every thing they did to "fix" anything was done backwards, upside down, inside out and ugly. We are over 29 and not going to spend the rest of our lives fixing up a house. So we are fixing, repairing, painting, replacing as we need to and have extra money. And I am learning that sometimes good enough is . . . good enough. We are thankful to have the house, though.

Posted by: TecumsehTea-not a resident troll at January 28, 2023 06:43 PM (BjGT6)

170 163 Thing I didn't expect to find as a Twitter noob: JK Rowling gets more likes than anybody. Way more.
Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at January 28, 2023 06:40 PM (24fqN)

John 8:32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 28, 2023 06:44 PM (BRHaw)

171
brb, flippin' tables like Jesus...

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at January 28, 2023 06:44 PM (v2fyE)

172
The first time I went to Frys I did not know I needed a spare mouse ball.
Posted by: rhennigantx

We would eagerly await the Friday adv and make lunch runs to Fry's.
Going home was sometimes a challenge though... sorta like coming home from a gun show or gun store.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 28, 2023 06:44 PM (ywZXi)

173 FDS/CDC and the whole lot of them can go pass up a rope.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 28, 2023 06:44 PM (s3Enk)

174 161 A new mass shooting in California. Someone has a really twisted hobby.
Posted by: Diogenes
----------------------

It was Covid. They're dropping like flies.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 28, 2023 06:45 PM (oQbRJ)

175 Seriously ... makes about as much sense to me as the "Just be polite, and keep your hands on ten and two" bullshit.

Because both are bullshit.
Posted by: I-IV-V at January 28, 2023 06:42 PM (U93OM)

10 2 will kill you with airbags. Proper now is hands underhand at about 4 and 8.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 28, 2023 06:45 PM (BRHaw)

176 rhomboid maybe only needs real fine sandpaper or steel wool if just adding to a finish already. Or as Sooth wants take down to bare wood and start over.
I have belt and palm sanders so it's nothing to take a wood to unfinished wood.

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 06:47 PM (xhxe8)

177 So what's the IFR of the current variant? For under 60, probably even less than for all the endemic strains of influenza. Thus, no rationale for any kind of shot, really.

Muldoon edumucated me that - and I still find it astonishing - flu shots are now reco'd for kids. Absurd. Why give ineffectual shots to avoid a normal/rarely serious illness?

Long ago gave up on all of this, and the society and institutions that are beclowning themselves, but I gather several more Euro countries have greatly restricted or banned the "vaccines", especially for younger people. This is mostly about adverse effects, but just as with the cost of decarbonizing being the *secondary* issue with climastrology lysenkoism, so with C19 "vaccines" - adverse effects are secondary, *where there is no rationale for them to begin with*. But the brain-dead society has nobody making this basic and dispositive challenge to the whole thing.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2023 06:49 PM (OTzUX)

178 I had a dude that worked for me that family had money. He and Sis went and bought that first big Lexus and she got hit about a month later.

The airbag broke both her arms and tore her breastbone, in 2!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 28, 2023 06:49 PM (BRHaw)

179 I am constantly impressed with the many talents of the horde.

I do wish I had been obsessed with a sport like tennis or golf when I was young. Something I could still enjoy today.

As it is, I will live vicariously through y'all. I can't draw a straight line with a ruler. And im completely tone deaf.

Y'all are awesome.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 28, 2023 06:49 PM (U2p+3)

180 One of my weird hobbies is random facts that only I find interesting. Turns out Cole Hauser's (Dazed and Confused and Yellowstone) dad is Wings Hauser (weird big face, curly hair, in a lot of TV shows and bad movies like Mutant back in the 80s. You'd recognize him I assure you).

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at January 28, 2023 06:50 PM (UQUAY)

181 "Bucky" was giving a seminar at a Whole Earth style conference back in the day in Athens, Ohio. There was a lot of interest in "alternative' architecture at the time. I was studying stressed skin construction (fancy tents) and inflatables as part of my studies.

I talked him into giving a informal colloquium at the University and I was amazed at how many of the professors showed up.
Posted by: pawn at January 28, 2023 06:13 PM (kYVzH)

Tom Scott has his usual bland discussion in a bland tone, this time about architecture, specifically about Cal Poly's Poly Canyon of architectural senior works.

He starts in front of a geodome and it gets odder from there

https://youtu.be/FhHM9MT41IE

Posted by: Kindltot at January 28, 2023 06:50 PM (xhaym)

182 Bought the cheapest replacement kitchen faucet Home Depot sells. It's Horrible. It's on or off there's no fine adjustment. Spend an extra $20 still be cheap but get a faucet that works.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 28, 2023 06:51 PM (oQbRJ)

183 Thanks Skip - so, just take off most of the current finish, don't take it down to wood? I don't think it needs down-to-wood to take care of the cosmetic issues.

Just sand/rough up the trouble areas until they're clean, and add more polyurethane? Does poly "melt"/blend with the underlying layer. Any special kind to use?

Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2023 06:51 PM (OTzUX)

184 Long ago gave up on all of this, and the society and institutions that are beclowning themselves, but I gather several more Euro countries have greatly restricted or banned the "vaccines", especially for younger people. This is mostly about adverse effects, but just as with the cost of decarbonizing being the *secondary* issue with climastrology lysenkoism, so with C19 "vaccines" - adverse effects are secondary, *where there is no rationale for them to begin with*. But the brain-dead society has nobody making this basic and dispositive challenge to the whole thing.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2023 06:49 PM (OTzUX)

C19 killed about 10 kids at St Judes and the like in first 90 to 120 days. ZERO other kids. It was all a big fake to get rid of PDT and Spend $$$$.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 28, 2023 06:52 PM (BRHaw)

185 182 Bought the cheapest replacement kitchen faucet Home Depot sells. It's Horrible. It's on or off there's no fine adjustment. Spend an extra $20 still be cheap but get a faucet that works.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 28, 2023 06:51 PM (oQbRJ)

I like luxart. Its about $$$ but nice.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 28, 2023 06:53 PM (BRHaw)

186 If I just need to repair selected parts of the surface, I can lazy-out and just do that, without disassembling the whole bench. That makes it much more likely I'll do it.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2023 06:53 PM (OTzUX)

187 I do wish I had been obsessed with a sport like tennis or golf when I was young. Something I could still enjoy today.

Posted by: nurse ratched

Go find a 9 hole, 3par golf course.
They're fun, (usually) are not expensive, don't take a lot of time, and you can learn on one without people giving you the evil-eye.
If you get your short game together you can move onto the driving range to figure out your woods.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 28, 2023 06:53 PM (ywZXi)

188 One thing I did recently to reignite my passion for drawing was to bring in a couple of ink drawings I had done to display in my office. the response from office mates has been very encouraging. Part of my half-assed new year's resolution thing.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at January 28, 2023 06:54 PM (UQUAY)

189 rhomboid Would guess it's already polyurethane, so try cleaning it up, clean off and coat it

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 06:55 PM (xhxe8)

190 Back in the day... building your own computer was the snizz. I recall drooling over the various catalogs with parts.

Fry's was the bomb. I think they might be DOA now?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 28, 2023 06:10 PM (Q4IgG)

Frys is DOA at least here in Los Angeles.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 28, 2023 06:56 PM (eoQWY)

191
And I am learning that sometimes good enough is . . . good enough. We are thankful to have the house, though.
Posted by: TecumsehTea

That's why I haven't been in a rush to "update" anything that isn't broke. I hate the wallpaper, but it's in good shape. The countertops are "old," but they're in nice shape. Etc.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at January 28, 2023 06:56 PM (v2fyE)

192 Y'all are awesome.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 28, 2023 06:49 PM (U2p+3)

You shoot good, though, and I hear your cooking is out of this world, so it's not like you don't have some sorta-hobbies that you're good at. I often wish I was a more creative cook.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 28, 2023 06:56 PM (OX9vb)

193 Go find a 9 hole, 3par golf course.
They're fun, (usually) are not expensive, don't take a lot of time, and you can learn on one without people giving you the evil-eye.
If you get your short game together you can move onto the driving range to figure out your woods.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 28, 2023 06:53 PM (ywZXi)

Or don't. I'm terrible with woods so I bought a driving iron to add to my half set I picked up.

The Par3 I went to a lot was full of water features, so it really trained you to carry a lot of spare balls. And buy cut outs.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 28, 2023 06:58 PM (eoQWY)

194 I honestly want to take out this tub mess and put in a shower with a bench. Not sure it will happen but the shower head is awful. They ran pipe up a wall, then punched a hole in the ceiling and ran the pipe down to the cheapest shower head they could find. Almost makes me wish I could put in a clawfoot tub wirh a shower curtain. But in this town, it's all good.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 28, 2023 06:59 PM (4IUUf)

195 Thanks, Skip, will probably try that approach when I get around to the bench project. Lots of reloading to do before then though. The empty ammo cans cry out to be fed.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2023 06:59 PM (OTzUX)

196
Or as Sooth wants take down to bare wood and start over.
Posted by: Skip

Yeah, the tops have too many nicks in them. Plus, these used to be our kitchen tables when I was a kid! I've had them with me for almost 30 years.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at January 28, 2023 06:59 PM (v2fyE)

197 If you like watching the 30 minute painting shows here's my opinion.

Bill Alexander > Bob Ross

Both in technique and aesthetic of the painting.

Makes sense though since Alexander taught Ross. Ross definitely the better businessman.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 28, 2023 07:01 PM (Iu1CX)

198 Primo 1973 Raquel Welch in The Three Musketeers on TCM, running around in a white shift.

That's the good news.

The bad news: Michael York.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 28, 2023 07:02 PM (ufFY8)

199
I just thought of something:

I could use just stain or danish oil, etc. and forego the elaborate polyutherane if I go and have two custom-made pieces of GLASS for the tables.

The glass will give me the protection of the finish I need, yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at January 28, 2023 07:02 PM (v2fyE)

200 Good advice, AZ deplorable and Oldcat. Driving iron especially, and starting on 9-hole courses (or just doing 9s where courses allow that). And work on putting and short game (including some lessons).

Thing is, NW weather isn't conducive to year-round golf, like here (or much of AZ). So, a seasonal thing.

One nice trend is that courses, with the serious drop in rounds played over the last 10 years, are getting more flexible and allowing 9-only where they wouldn't before. And creating "memberships" that offer serious discounts on play and range balls. Pondering one such very close to me right now.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2023 07:03 PM (OTzUX)

201 I have decided to not talk about Covid anymore, but if you want to see some data on European birth numbers matched to vaccination numbers, look at Malo Gato's substack

https://tinyurl.com/yckkn3yb

Posted by: Kindltot at January 28, 2023 07:04 PM (xhaym)

202 Prices on large pre-fab fiberglass stalls are out of line.
Waiting for Craigs to come up with one.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 28, 2023 07:05 PM (oQbRJ)

203 Sooth a glass top will definitely provide protection. I have a very nice teak kitchen table that's hidden all the time, and one of my long-standing chore items is to get custom glass for it. Will allow one to see the beautiful wood, and I can still cover with a tablecloth to mix it up. Priced the circular piece of glass a few years back, around $400. Ouch, but one-time expenditure.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2023 07:06 PM (OTzUX)

204 My uncle gave dme a air sander, first time I used on my truck body repair. Took Bondo down like it was balsa wood. Haven't tried it on wood piece yet.

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 07:07 PM (xhxe8)

205 Pondering one such very close to me right now.
Posted by: rhomboid

We can play really cheaply in Summer afternoons here!
Winter we have lots of visitors who really like our golf courses...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 28, 2023 07:07 PM (ywZXi)

206 Kindltot, "Inferno" probably was an instruction manual.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 28, 2023 07:07 PM (PsZz1)

207
Speaking of computers...

I just cloned some hard drives and upgraded from Win7 to 10. I believe in changing Disks before they fail, so I always make a fresh clone every few years.

So, if anyone wants any SSD/clone recommendations, just ask.

Oh: And NEVER NEVER install any type of anti-virus software in your PC, especially Avast. They are worse than viruses! Just let Windows handle it.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at January 28, 2023 07:08 PM (v2fyE)

208 I'm going to combine golf and artists for an analogy. The art world has 20 handicappers making a living selling their art and scratch players or better doing it just as a hobby. That's messed up.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 28, 2023 07:09 PM (Iu1CX)

209 Y'all are awesome.

I hear you're pretty good at poking holes in paper from a distance. A skill that not everybody cares to cultivate. So you're pretty awesome yourself, nurse.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 28, 2023 07:10 PM (Bd6X8)

210
Priced the circular piece of glass a few years back, around $400.
Posted by: rhomboid

Yikes, I ain't buying two of those!
One, maybe. But with Teak, you kinda have no choice but glass if you ever want to really use it without worry.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at January 28, 2023 07:10 PM (v2fyE)

211 Just let Windows handle it.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Great advice.
I had an anti-virus destroy one of my computers years ago.
Since then I've relied on Windows Defender and never had a problem with any of our Windows systems.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 28, 2023 07:10 PM (ywZXi)

212 AZ I used to play a lot more a few years ago, and back then the good military courses like Pendleton and Miramar were quite the deal (with the added bonus of artillery background music at Pendleton, and of course lots of aviation overhead at Miramar). Not sure at the moment. The off-base military course here is not cheap any more (Admiral Baker).

San Diego city courses still cheap with resident's card, including North Course at Torrey Pines (they're playing on the South Course right now at the Farmer's tournament).

Haven't priced Coronado public in a while, spectacular setting and nice course, for relative pennies (state law limits their price increases).

Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2023 07:12 PM (OTzUX)

213 I think I'm due for some straight pool.

Enjoy your afternoon and evenings!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 28, 2023 07:12 PM (ywZXi)

214 Just let Windows handle it.

I installed Linux.

Windows couldn't handle it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 28, 2023 07:12 PM (Bd6X8)

215 The glass will give me the protection of the finish I need, yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer,

I've seen that in Asian furniture. Beautiful rosewood dining tables topped with glass.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 28, 2023 07:12 PM (BtmcP)

216 I'm taking up an old hobby that I was quite good at long ago.
Shooting pool. I noticed that my bank shots were not falling and my straight shots were not much better.
So I'm going to gently dump all the balls out of their pockets, including the cue ball, and take whatever shot presents itself (until I can improve my shooting I will ignore setting up for my next shot).
I believe this will occupy much of my free time.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 28, 2023 05:47 PM (ywZXi)

Doing some trick shots might help you work on your striking and aiming

Posted by: Oldcat at January 28, 2023 07:13 PM (eoQWY)

217 There's been a language update.

DiedSuddenly is out.

DiedVaccidentally is in.

Carry on.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 28, 2023 07:15 PM (Bd6X8)

218 People use Howard Restor-a-finish on old treadles. They make a product for floors too. I have dark stained wood floors here. Like everything, they are in rough shape but I'm keeping them.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 28, 2023 07:15 PM (4IUUf)

219 188 ... "One thing I did recently to reignite my passion for drawing"

Pug,
I hope you stay with it. Learning to draw has been a real pleasure.

Posted by: JTB at January 28, 2023 07:15 PM (7EjX1)

220 I have used Webrooot for ever and never had the first.probl4m

Posted by: Ben Had at January 28, 2023 07:16 PM (PsZz1)

221 I've heard Windows defender is decent, and I run it, but also have Avast. Can't quite tell if that was sarc or serious. Never had trouble with Avast.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 28, 2023 07:18 PM (Cus5s)

222 I have Linux rig I use in the media room. 1st time with it. I like it pretty well, very fast. Sometimes it says I don't have permission to open a file (movie or music) which is weird because I created it...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 28, 2023 07:19 PM (jTmQV)

223 188 ... "One thing I did recently to reignite my passion for drawing"

Pug,
I hope you stay with it. Learning to draw has been a real pleasure.
Posted by: JTB at January 28, 2023 07:15 PM (7EjX1)

thing is, I have always drawn. when I was a 4th grader we did an art project in school where we all drew squirrels from a photo. I and another kid did really good drawings. (turns out 40 some years later we're still friends.)

My problem has always been motivation, accompanied with being a husband and dad. But I blame my lack of motivation more.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at January 28, 2023 07:22 PM (UQUAY)

224 Told from teenager into 20s drew a lot, but somewhere in early 20s stopped

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 07:25 PM (xhxe8)

225 O think I'm going to learn how to play the harmonica--even if it's only The Red River Valley.

Posted by: N.Lurker at January 28, 2023 07:25 PM (eGTCV)

226
Try to uninstall Avast, some day. They hide it everywhere so it keeps popping back up.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at January 28, 2023 07:26 PM (v2fyE)

227 So racing is a hobby, and watching racing is a hobby for a bunch more people. I tuned in to the 24 hour race at Daytona just now and they're pushing electric vehicles HARD. Ads left and right for Mercedes, BMW, Cadillac, etc. about EV this and EV that and how great EVs are. Funny thing is that none of the cars in the 24 race are EVs. It's not hard to figure out why.

BUT, and here's the interesting part, you can see the Overton window being moved this year in the race. There are hybrid cars that have 920 megajoules of energy that they're allowed to use per-stint. It doesn't matter if there is still gas in the tank. You can't use it. You have 920 megajoules. You have X amount of "energy", except not energy in gas, or energy in your batteries if you have any energy there. Energy we approve of. Once you use it you are penalized.

"And replenishing that energy bank is a matter of time, not fuel flow."

It's not hard to see where this is going.

https://tinyurl.com/2pz35c8f

Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at January 28, 2023 07:29 PM (em09h)

228 Call or write your congressman now and tell him to stop supporting the fucking fiasco disaster in Ukraine. Stop perpetually falling for the loser party fucking fiascos.

Posted by: GlowieMike at January 28, 2023 07:30 PM (4RD0x)

229 "...European birth numbers matched to vaccination numbers..."

Dr Ryan Cole warned about this 2 years ago, and he was attacked for "spreading misinformation," and investigated, threatened with the loss of his medical license.

Studies done in Japan in 2021 revealed the jab spike protein concentrated in the reproductive organs. That study was suppressed, ridiculed and ignored.

And Big Pharma is now combining mNRA into *all* its vaccines, some to be injected straight into the heart, according to Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet.
https://tinyurl.com/3ke5fhd9

Posted by: Ju at January 28, 2023 07:34 PM (aTmM/)

230 I'm taking up an old hobby that I was quite good at long ago.
Shooting pool. I noticed that my bank shots were not falling and my straight shots were not much better.

---

I was good friends with a pro player until he passed a few years ago. One of the best tips he showed me was to always remember that the energy of the balls is transferred in every way, not just direction of travel. So if you can't quite get a good angle on a pocket, you can put left or right hand english on the cue ball and it will transfer to the object ball, helping it in its travel towards or bouncing into the pocket. Random grab to a discussion:

https://tinyurl.com/2et5jcy6

Once I got a feel for that my ability changed dramatically. I was never anywhere above "nice guy that is fun to play one pocket against if you see him at the pool hall," but I could at least be fairly competitive against the other low-level nobodies.

Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at January 28, 2023 07:35 PM (em09h)

231 Wonder if F-1 will try EV, a race is usually around 150 miles ( I think) so possibly doable in a charge

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 07:39 PM (xhxe8)

232 Oh, and it is especially useful on rail shots.

Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at January 28, 2023 07:39 PM (em09h)

233 91 ... "Do you have any of Danny Gregory's art books?"

I've watched a number of his YT videos. Didn't know he had published books. A visit to the library, which actually has books I want for a change, is in order.

Posted by: JTB at January 28, 2023 07:40 PM (7EjX1)

234 From kid to USAF played a lot of pool, something else just dropped in life

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 07:40 PM (xhxe8)

235 Just looked, everything else is on YouTube why not pencil drawing. Lots of how to videos

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 07:42 PM (xhxe8)

236 Everyday Matters is the first book by Gregory, I think. His wife fell under a subway train and was paralyzed from the waist down. That's when he started drawing everything.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 28, 2023 07:48 PM (4IUUf)

237 What went wrong?

Posted by: fd at January 28, 2023 06:01 PM

I bought the wrong RAM and the wrong CPU cooler and I've had some issues with the video card that are totally weird. It is completely awesome when it works, which is nearly always.

I got an Nvidia card with ray tracing. The games that support it are gorgeous.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 28, 2023 07:53 PM (iZEhM)

238 I got an Nvidia card with ray tracing. The games that support it are gorgeous.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 28, 2023 07:53 PM

Oh, and I installed Linux on it. That was why I bought it so I could go back to running Linux on my desktop.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 28, 2023 08:08 PM (iZEhM)

239 I think I'm due for some straight pool.

Enjoy your afternoon and evenings!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 28, 2023 07:12 PM (ywZXi)

That game with the fifteen numbered balls is a devil's tool!
Oh yes we got trouble, trouble, trouble!
With a "T"! Gotta rhyme it with "P"!
And that stands for Pool

Posted by: Prof Harold Hill at January 28, 2023 08:25 PM (4I/2K)

240 No one said anything about the closed captions in the last video...

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241 Today was not a bodging or puttering day, but I did manage to buy a spring-wound countdown timer to use in my project to install a heatlamp in the bathroom ceiling. Remember when those used to be a thing? Apparently, they have gone completely out of style.

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242 Southeastern or southwestern Wisconsin?

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