The New Year is always seen as a fresh start by me and seems to be true for most other people. I know it is just a convenient calendar thing but it is as good a reason as any. I have an excuse to start the year with a fresh beginning. How well I stick to that resolution is another story. I approach and somewhat hide from the fact that I am getting near the...
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“Knock, knock…”
“Who’s there?” “Adoor” “Adoor Who?” “A door to build a boat upon.” I am building, actually going to start to build after I get the door, a rather large model boat. I need a flat building board upon which to construct the hull of this model boat. I have used a flat hollow core door to build model airplanes and wings very flat for many years. I think I left it in Ohio from the...
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I got some de-hoarding done in the workshop. (Is there such a word?) I am motivated by the disturbing thought of compulsive hoarding illness (I hoard, but not compulsive). I don’t want to keep too much “this might be useful someday” stuff packed into my workshop. Ha! I just re-read the last line. The stock excuse is in the parenthesis. I am not going to explore the separate (illness) condition of compulsive hoarding as it is off topic...
Continue reading...Business as Usual
I get so involved with my workshop blog (THMSBlog) and working in my shop, I don’t spend a lot of time making additions to Ramblin’ Dan. I try to keep the work shop talk out of here, but sometimes I just should make some comments. I run a world wide internet based business offering small machine shop tools and parts. About half my customers are outside the USA. That means I do a lot of...
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