Played some acoustic guitar and started to wire up one of my bonsai trees (Japanese red maple).
Hoping to get some time in the shop today to work on a CNC enclosure so I don't get dust everywhere during a carve.
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Needle punch, finished a small canvas
Baked brownies :)
In order:
Finished building a wood “skirt” for under my daughter’s bed frame (to prevent her cat from using Underbedland as her jungle gym in the middle of the night). Used 1x5 pine. Cut some decorative edge work on the pieces. I attached the skirt that goes on the long edge of the bed with hinges (recessed into the skirt), so that she can lift up the skirt and store stuff under the bed. I put on magnetic latches so cat can’t do the same. Stained it and finished with polyurethane. It was gold practice on finishing work.
Took apart the passenger door of girlfriend’s truck and fixed a bunch of stuff. I disassembled and cleaned the window switch (yay, the window rolls up again!). Cleaned and lubed the window mechanism. Spliced two cut wires on the door lock. Replaced some missing bolts. Rewrapped wire bundles. Wrapped loose wires. Rerouted wires so they wouldn’t get cut again, made and installed a vapor barrier (the original was MIA). After seeing how bad things were in that door, I need to do the other doors too.
Started some serious setup work on an acoustic guitar (Gibson hummingbird). Fret height was pretty variable. I leveled the frets. Started recrowning all the frets - got through half of them. Once I finish recrowning, Next will be setting neck relief, cutting nut slots deeper (first fret action is currently atrocious), adjusting the bridge down, and maybe some intonation work.
Fully disassembled a Walter Creed 9mm pistol that somehow had sand inside it. Thoroughly cleaned everything, oiled, and reassembled. I seem to have fixed it, but haven’t tested everything yet.
Designed a folding adjustable arm rest to mount on top of the center console of my truck. (Designed, not built. Yet)
I finally moved house so I have a new space for writing, which I’ll be doing later after I’ve been to the barbers. The area has a huge historical value, there is a haunted (supposedly) manor nearby, and an abandoned church that’s been for sale as long as I can remember. Behind my house there are many gardens and parks.
I've finally gotten around to trying some Terraria mods! I'm nearing 2000 hours on vanilla, but this week I bit the bullet and tried Calamity with Magic Storage and AlchemistNPC lite. So much new stuff to explore and some real quality of life upgrades
Also, spring is in the air so I've cleaned out my potting bench, sowed some peppers and basil, made some cuttings and prepared my new border to sow in native wildflowers. Love the start of gardening season!
Playing Pikmin! Specifically Pikmin squared, which is a ROM hack that involves Pikmin 1 being ported into Pikmin 2's engine. Typical run for me with 29 parts in 8 days.
I built a few begleris and upgraded a few more with better cords and additional weights. Now I'm trying to learn how to actually play with them.
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Got back into Marvel's Midnight Suns. Tried to mod it, failed, asked support about the eternal bug, did what they suggested, did not work, contemplating making a 2k account and linking it to steam just to get the fucking ancestral armor. Nightmare.