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In an interesting coincidence, both of the kids ended up camping at different rivers with friends over the 4th of July weekend, so MGT and I had the house to ourselves. We're basically a pair of walking injuries, so not much adventure we could get up to. I chose shop day instead, finishing my...

I made sure to not procrastinate and read that right away! Thank you. What an interesting metaphor for the whole situation. My son saw the illustrations over my shoulder and said he had a guest presentation in one of his middle school classes that was that very essay, monkey illustrations and...

I'm going to sum up what it's like to be me in two brief conversations. Both happened Thursday, in the build-up to a short family getaway to the peninsula. The quick backstory is I took the kids to the MotoAmerica superbike races three years in a row a the track where I usually (used to?...)...

Another post that's going to start with a long quote from a previous one, this one dating WAY back: I went out to the shop today to get the charger for the mower, and I noticed some weird plant debris on the door mat. What was weird about it is how dried up and woven it looked. The mat was...

What fire?...

Thanks guys! I'll have another project to show off at some point. It's my daughter's Mothers Day project that she roped me into, so it should be done within a month tops...

I hate to quote my own post, but I'm going to address the bold lines in purple in this update. It's been so long that I figured some context might help. I had to go back and look, and even I can't believe that I started that pretty simple project to spruce up my buddy's quad all the way back...

Can you machine your own press dies? Or just not worth it?

Late to the party, but way to go, Brad!

Super happy for you, man. What a rapid expansion!

Quite the opposite of a hot dog down a hallway! What most stands out to me from all this is that some day in the mid-future there will be a few PhasePerfects for sale?...

I'm jealous of that last line! Yesterday, I worked a half day at the paying job and a full day at home. After doing the string trimming, it was out to the shop to get this monkey off my back. I realized that the first thing I had to do was install the new oil skimmer, because I'd need to know...

True story: I started typing a joke about your Freddy, then deleted it because I was rambling on and also worried people wouldn't catch that I was kidding. I think the joke was going to be something like, "Nobody's interested in either of my kidneys, so, unfortunately, I can't also have a...

Here's the paper from Castrol on disposal of metalworking fluids. I'm still not sure how well it worked. There was a clear difference in my barrel between the tramp oil and the coolant in that what floated to the top of the barrel looked like milk chocolate colored oil and clearly didn't mix...

Hey, it's Tom from the future. I'm looking at the wall of text I just typed and feeling like a forum windbag. The juicy pictures start a ways down. No judgement... Yesterday, for no particular reason, I found myself pondering the definition of "midlife crisis," and a think I nailed it: A...

One would think that mounting a fire extinguisher on the wall eight feet from a dart board would be a safe bet. I mean, it's only a foot from the door, so if you're worried about the extinguisher, you probably should have just mounted the dart board further away in general. I just found out...

I just hope if a disaster like this strikes, it's from one of my truck rats acting as a fuse.

I have a couple. The important part is actually using them.

Alright, the two sets of terminal offsets are officially spoken for, heading to @Xti04 and @Mr.zippy!

Looking at the date today, I'll have to bust out Tom 3:16: For Tom so loved Garage Journal, he sent his one and only battery post relocation kit to @Xti04 , that should he install his battery backward, he shall not be stranded and feel like an idiot but have everlasting cold cranking amps. I...