TGIF.
I don’t know about anyone else but it’s been a loooong week. I figured I’d have a drink and relax while enjoying some rare quite time. The boys generally are anything but quite.
I seldom imbibe, but tonight is going to be different. I have my sphere ice cube in the newish and only bourbon glass I own.
Found it thrifting and picked it up 25¢. In any event, I slowly poured my drink of choice over the ice.
I could hear the ice crack and I thought I’m going to enjoy this, maybe even have a second glass.
I got myself ready for bed. For months, I’ve had plans running through my head of the things I want to do or at least attempt to do.
Of these things, I need to set up my CNC router, it’s likely underpowered for some of the things I want to attempt but it’s a starting point and I can upgrade if I need to. I also have a blast furnace I need to set up as well. ( I have a homemade one I made from the brake drum from a Kenworth, but want better. ) I will use it to make aluminum blocks that will eventually be turned into molds.
These molds will then be used with the plastic injection molding machine that I am in the process of dreaming into life.
I have the PID and ordered band heaters I just need to find and fabricate a few parts and I will be on my way. Finding plastic is no problem, in fact plastic itself seems to be a problem of sorts. Finding things to make from it that will be useful may help at least a little.
I have delusions of grandeur, any thing I can come up with will be a drop in the bucket at best. But if enough dreamers come up with solutions, perhaps it will help.
I also have a micro mill in the works. To say I stay busy is an understatement of biblical proportions..lol
Raising young boys is more than enough to keep me hopping to be sure. On top of that, I of course have this blog, writing means a great deal to me. I’m working on a children’s book that the youngest and I drempt up one afternoon a few years ago.
I’m also a content creator and post on YouTube and Tictok, though I’m thinking the latter is a waste of time where monetization is concerned.
Tomorrow brings new challenges, I will be attempting to run the clothes washer on solar for the first time. My inverter was bought on a whim before having done any real research into the matter, but come on, it was on sale at a steep discount. How could I pass it up? Ugh
Anyway, it’ll be a learning experience. And I will, of course, be including the boys. Maybe if they learn from my trial and error, they can make fewer mistakes?
Which brings me back to where I started. While I could ramble on forever, I’ll spare you.
The drink I poured is cloudy and has something floating in that I won’t be drinking. It seems my ice may have been handled by one of the boys, perhaps dropped on the floor and stuffed back in the zip lock bag with the rest? I don’t know what happened, and it doesn’t matter, to be honest. I won’t be having a drink after all. Seems doing a little writing put my mind at ease, and that was, after all, what I started out intending to do.
All I know is I made it through another day, and now it’s bedtime. If you made it this far, thank you for reading and following along. Have a great night.
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