Day: April 4, 2025

These don’t really do the room justice, but for now I think it depicts a more open space, with cleaner organization, and clear paths around the work benches, table saw, and shelving unit.

The glare off of my vehicle windscreen makes it look a bit funny, but the new red shelves are easily identifiable, along with how much more open the space is around my work bench. My upgraded mitre saw and air compressor make a subtle appearance here too. Nice!

Today I started working on my APC Unit stand, made of Walnut, of course. I have the spray on diamond varathane finish drying over night. I’d like it to not smell too strong once I bring it into my office to get the APC up off the floor. If it’s important get it up off the floor is my philosophy. Next up will be my kitchen utensils organizer to go beside the stove. For that project I have some Odie’s Oil on the way. It’s 35% off right now so I snagged myself a jar full. I am debating doing some joinery for that, but we will have to see. I do have climbing tomorrow, so I can’t spend all day cutting tenons and mortises.

The space is shaping up nicely, even if I do say so myself. Ciao Bella!

Took my eldest daughter out for dinner while we waited on my youngest to finish her Girl Guides session at a school across town. The food was terrific, but the service was lacklustre. However, being a brand new spot in a small town means it was most likely artificially busy, just from newness, and likely understaffed for a Thursday evening. In a couple of weeks it will settle into its own pace. And the staffing levels will feel more appropriate. But like I said, food was great, and the staff very pleasant. I think we just got lost in the shuffle of the steady flow of people coming into the restaurant. It doesn’t have a tone of seating, and I think that they will want to differentiate the meal eaters, from the bar patrons better to free up space for those whom would like a meal, versus those having beers with whatever game is on. Lots of TV’s in the place. Was clean enough from what I could see. My daughter used the washroom and said it was real nice in there. I’d go back because the prices were very reasonable. I think they could probably do with an additional 4 – 6 tables right now, and four more wait staff, but I’m not a restauranteur, so what do I know? Just an inkling I had. A designated host/hostess to seat people, and a proper busboy to clear tables, and servers that only bring food & take orders would likely help them out immensely these first couple of weeks while they are the “New Big Thing”.

Yesterday’s weather was pretty great, at least once the early morning fog burned off. I got rid of even more waste from the garage. I swear that cleaning up has become my new hobby for the space. But I can’t be blamed for doing some much needed spring cleaning somewhere! Have to start, might as well be the garage/shop space. We did send two jam packed full garbage bags worth of clothes out the door with the Diabetes people. Given a solid day of prep we could have made that four or five I’m sure. I’m happy with the two that we got. There is always more though. I have clothes for the kids in my closet, and stuffed in bins in the basement, as well as in all of our closets. Shoes, coats and more that could go too. It’s all a bit much.

Once it warms up a little more I might start my utensils holder project. Glue won’t set until it’s at least 8-10°C I find. So I’m waiting for that to happen. My guess is that by 11 am I should be good to start cutting and prepping for glue. Whee! Let’s go.