Day: May 10, 2025

One particular issue that my garage shop has is power, or the lack thereof. So once we did some remodeling upstairs I paid an electrician to add a new small sub panel to the garage, in hopes I could land several 115v outlets, and hopefully at least one 240v. I got four 115v outlets and a 220v. Not bad, but it meant my dreams of welding at home were lowered a fair bit. Had to find a small unit that could run 115v, instead of a regular sized unit on a 240v. But, concurrent to this lack of outlets, is the fact that they are all located on one side of the garage, and clustered together. So unless I wanted to stack machines on top of each other and forever more be moving tools around on wheelie carts, I did the second best thing I know of and draped extension cords all over the show. It was unsightly, and most likely not very safe. It’s a short term fix for a long term problem.

But now that I have cleaned, and cleaned, and cleaned up the shop. Moved tools all around, and eliminated a lot of the space wasting items I finally decided to clean up the cords. Now I cannot eliminate them entirely, I did however consolidate them down, and managed to unplug, and recapture five cords. I think that’s pretty great. It now means I have open outlets once again, so I can put a tool directly into the wall socket (if that works) and not rely almost entirely on chains of cords strung together. I feel safer. It looks better. And my stock pile of usable cords has grown considerably.

So that was what I did to occupy myself after rock climbing, and throwing a ball around in the street with my oldest daughter today.

While the OT winning goal wasn’t ours, that was a very entertaining game three to watch. I like that level of intensity. It was a real nail biter right up until the buzzer sounded. Whoo wee that was nearly 80 minutes of electric play. Serve it directly into my veins! Would have loved to be up 3 – 0 in round two against Florida, but I think it is still achievable to win this series. Fingers, arms, legs, and toes crossed. Hell I’ll cross my eyes too if it means an entry into round three of the Stanley cup play offs.

I have rock climbing earlier than usual this session of Saturdays, so I’ll need to make sure I cut the grass on Fridays or Sundays because we won’t get home until the full heat of the day is Upon us. High UV days can really land you in some trouble around here. My base tan is pretty faded from February in the Keys. No desire to get badly burned ever again. It’s not all that warm here but the UV index is really high, so odds are I wouldn’t even have any sun screen on, or an SPF shirt to protect my arms and neck. Just straight star radiation to the exposed skin for a hot coal glow all evening, and night sweats to go along with it . No thanks.

The gym is starting to get really hot inside, so I should probably find suitable shorts that I can wear so I don’t immediately sweat through my clothes once I walk through the door. It also has that stale sweat stink most gyms suffer from which I’m not very keen on. Yuck. Smells like unwashed ore teen kids coming out of gym class to sit in front of you for the whole rest of the day in junior high. Ugh! Horrendous.

Anyway, it is officially Saturday, and it should be around 19°C today. Perhaps I will tackle some outdoor chores today since last week it was so cool outside. We could ride our bikes, or take a spin on our skateboards. That might be fun! Now that the weather is turning we can be outdoors more often. Throw a ball around and play catch. Kick a soccer ball. Take the sparring pass outside and really give them shit in preparation for next month’s tournament. That just might be the ticket!