I finally got into the shop to work for a while again last night. I was going to try to split my time half and half between building the shop and working on KSW projects, but it ended up being all shop time. I worked through lunch at the day job so I could leave early and try to beat traffic across the Bay Bridge, and for the most part made it, ( Read more... )

Money, time and physical ability have been getting in the way of the shop lately. With Penny and Kate’s visit last weekend and some things that needed to be taken care of, money has been tight. Work has also been taking up a lot of time, and my shoulder has been giving me a ton of trouble. With all that going on, it’s been hard to make much ( Read more... )

I really wanted to get the deck in this week for the second floor, but funds are a little short, so it’ll have to wait till after next payday. So last night was just more organization, getting tools put away, trying to figure out where things should go and a little bit of steamy time with KSW. It’s a little difficult to lay out the shop, since ( Read more... )

Last night I was a little worn out from the night before, and had a lot to do at home to get ready for a visit from sissystck and pnb_thing1, but I wanted to get into the shop for at least a little while and get the racks positioned and bolted to the floor. I left straight from work trying to miss traffic on the Bay Bridge, but it was still a mess, even at 4:00pm. ( Read more... )

I got the second pallet rack on Monday, but I was so wiped out from dealing with my shoulder at the VA that I wasn’t in any condition to do much with it. (That’s another story that I’ll try to post about soon). Yesterday my shoulder was finally feeling up to some work, so I headed over to the KSW work night to get involved in the restoration of ( Read more... )

This weekend is the time to get everything ready for the second pallet rack. The top of the right existing rack tower was cut off at some point, so that needed to be fixed. After that it’s just more shuffling stuff around and putting things back where they belong ( Read more... )

The move in and attempts at organization begin. I won't have my second pallet rack for a couple of days, so the construction part of all this hasn't started yet. The night was mostly reloading tools into the roll away tool chests and moving the first tier of the pallet wrack to where I think I want it. The idea is to have shop space on the ( Read more... )

I have a new shop! For those of you that don’t know, I just rented a small amount of shop space at 2525 Mandela to start working metal again. It doesn’t look like much yet, but it’s a start. I only have 100 square feet of actual floor space, but a lot of room to go up. Once I can get that 100 feet making enough money to cover itself, I’m taking ( Read more... )

Fashion and self image are huge things, at least for me. Looking back at the last 2 years in SD, I think a good portion of what was making things hard for me is feeling lost in myself. When things went to crap, I lost my sense of self, my self image, and gave up on my sense of style. They could all be looked at as separate issues, but I think ( Read more... )

The storm played itself out in the middle of the night and we awoke to a clear beautiful morning. I got up at 6am, walked into the kitchen to check the weather data and turn on the tea kettle and got a surprise. Something was amiss. The outside temp was reading 164 degrees. Somehow I think that might not be right. The sun was up just enough to ( Read more... )