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I've signed up to be a coach but Coach Doug has been too busy to get me the invites and links to do all the study and training. I'm really impressed with how much effort they put into just getting kids on bikes. The competition aspect is secondary for sure and honestly that's fantastic. Kids can...

I have been waist deep in my annual Oprah shoot this past month. No time to ride, go to the gym or do pretty much anything for myself. But I wanted to share a parenting win. Judiaann and I agreed that the kids had to do a sport. Nadia had chosen cross country last year but didn't want to do it...

Thanks Matt. I appreciate the note. I want to get back to the house but I feel like I'm always falling behind. Like the Golden Gate Bridge by the time they finish painting it's time to start over again - the house feels Sisyphean to me. The summer has come and gone without a single project. I'm...

Thanks @mschoo92 - I see how big the kids are and all the things I didn't accomplish and I feel I didn't do a good job. The last few years have been especially difficult and it's nice to hear that I've had an effect. Sometimes it's helpful to go back and see what I have accomplished rather than...

Tried it yesterday on the CZ Shadow I have and it worked great. That gun is now completely apart. The only issue is that a few of the roll pins were pretty tight and while the hammer worked the punch that I had bent. I have a set of Starret punches and I pulled them out and it went fine. Why do...

So I teased that I needed a hammer. I've made a few for Lucas and the small ones were too small to be useful. They couldn't easily knock out the pins on the CZ. Those are probably 1/2" 304 stainless. So I wanted to make something new and I wanted to make the faces changeable. It had to be...

I recently was changing a carbide insert on a lathe tool holder. I was doing above the open drawer containing the lathe parts and inserts and it fell without me seeing it land. It's been three days now and I've moved everything in that area, swept with a magnet and a broom, looked in all the...

So one of my goals has been to just get back into the shop. For all the reasons. Working in the shop is a place where things make sense and taking things apart, making them better and putting them back together is satisfying in a way that few things are. I've been shooting for most of my...

Summer has been busy and I mistakenly suggested to the kids that we start a pizza popup for their summer job. We are still using the Roccbox but we picked up this Ooni to test a theory. It doesn't have the mass of the Roccbox but it has a larger surface and it has two long burners that cover...

Is it weird that I don't want to check out that thread for fear that I'll end up rebuying things? Gregor

To be fair. I didn’t look for this - it was at a garage sale for $10. I have a lot of tools like that. Ones too good to pass up but that I don’t have an immediate use for. I have a lot of things I regret buying or buy and eventually grow bored of or lose interest (right now air guns are on their...

At this point I'm willing to sell every motorcycle that I have. About the only one I'd keep is maybe my Dads bike and that second R80 that I want to build. It's not that I'm not interested in bikes but I am tired of having so many - especially ones that don't run. It's all about trying to...

And that is the last thing I need. They seem to be really popular/common on the east coast and pretty rare out on the west coast. I love the attachments and wish I could find the power broom (which I absolutely do not need) but the wagon is the one thing I'd really like. I'm at the stage where...

So I'm slowly getting back to the shop which is really helping me keep my head in a good place. In many ways things are pretty good and in many others the world is burning - it's a very strange time. We no longer share a reality and that's a real problem. The algorithm wants division and to that...

Well, there’s a few things. Not all shop related. But there’s that too. One is that I’ve been dating an amazing woman named Katie for a bit over a year. It’s been a refreshing change to have someone in my life that shows up reliably. She came over to help me prune the apple tree that had been...

Thanks. I'm hoping that by posting here I'll be more accountable. I need to have deadlines and goals to get myself into the shop or working on a project and it's been scattered and crazy lately. Hopefully I'll be consistent now. Gregor

NOTE: I realized that while I've not started to edit my video I do have clips and they do a much better job than just my photos. So go back up to that last post and there's now three videos that will give you a better understanding of that day (night). Also, I dug through drone footage and...

So we've gotten to the checkpoint at the school and the next one is in the off road section. Considering the condition of the "on road" sections I'm a little concerned but I'm a solid off road rider, I've done hard things on big bikes and I've ridden mud. It's only supposed to be 10km for the...

Okay, back to the Philippines. We woke up at 4am and our local guy had arranged for the hotel to bring someone in to make us breakfast. I had brought my coffee setup with me and was glad that I could at least count on good coffee each morning. We fueled up and started day two... ...in the...

Thanks guys. It's funny you posted that Tony Stark reference - my son's friends have nicknamed me Tony Stark because they are all coming to an age where they appreciate the shop and the making of things. Scorp - I've pushed back against the ADHD thing because it felt like a trend but the more...