With all the useless documents involved in buying and selling real-estate, why isn’t a basic floor plan required? I spent the weekend measuring and drawing. I’ve realized that my orientation is very relative (e.g. left/right) not absolute (e.g. north/south). The lot plan is north-up by accident. I started with the back of the house, whichContinue reading “Size Matters”
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Pi Hole
It’s supposedly very simple. I like Patrick’s site: Rapberry Tips. It’s a bit self-promotional, but, hey, he’s providing value so expecting something for that seems fair. The subtitle of the post is “Free Ad Blocker in 15min”. The timer starts at 1848! Step 0: Be sure the work VPN is disconnected. It intercepts the subnetContinue reading “Pi Hole”
Hot Tub Saga Begins
We got a hot tub, sort of. We put down a deposit on a hot tub. We have the size (84×84) so we can get a pad poured. We have the electrical requirements (220×60) so we can get that upgraded. Alek at Splash City (no link because they don’t seem to have a web presence,Continue reading “Hot Tub Saga Begins”
Kudos: Little Print Shop
This is a couple of days late, but a big “thank you” to The Little Print Shop for the “we’ve moved” cards. They turned out great. Most of them have been mailed, hence the Write The F’ing Manual post a couple of days ago. I always seem to drastically over-order. Hint for next time: It’sContinue reading “Kudos: Little Print Shop”
Kitchen Elevations
I drew these at twice (half?) the scale so I could get better precision. It didn’t really help; this is still definitely NOT a blueprint. I’ve reduced them to share here. The shapes are made for floor plans, not elevations; that’s why they look so strange. That and the exhaust fan is actually a CRTContinue reading “Kitchen Elevations”
Kitchen Remodel
A blog is an odd place to keep track of this sort thing, but it needs to be written down somewhere and I can share this for feedback. Here’s what we’re starting with: That is more-or-less to scale with one big diagrams.net (formerly known as drawio) grid squares being a square foot and the resolutionContinue reading “Kitchen Remodel”
WTFM: Printing Address Labels
Write The Manual. Creating mailing labels from the Groundhog’s Day spreadsheet is an adventure, every year. I’ll probably never do it again with Open Office, but here’s how: Create the purpose-and-date specific spreadsheet Download it (Google Doc becomes Downloads\groundhogs.xlsx) Open with Open Office (becomes groundhogs.ods) Save it somewhere (e.g. Documents\GroundHogs\2021Move) Delete the Downloads version ConvertContinue reading “WTFM: Printing Address Labels”
Learning 2 Bake – from Scratch XVI
Take that! It’s not that I didn’t follow the recipe. Well, actually it is. The ingredient list is the same, but here’s what I actually did: 1 cup sugar (small)3/4 cup shorteningGrated rind and juice of 1 orange3 eggs3 cups flour1.5 tsp baking powder1/4 tsp salt It may have been a bit less than 3Continue reading “Learning 2 Bake – from Scratch XVI”
Teh Roomba
We got an i7 from Amazon. It has a camera. After watching a terrifying CBC report on wireless cameras, I’m a bit leery of such things. The Roomba itself doesn’t seem to have a password. It asked for the wireless (MainLink623, if you’ve been following that thread) password, but we did not set a passwordContinue reading “Teh Roomba”
Flies – I may be overthinking this
Denver doesn’t have bugs. That is one the things Mike & I both liked about it. There are insects, but they tend to crawl around and generally leave one alone. There are not many bothersome insects that “bug” one. Rapid City has flies. Not at the “plague of locusts” level, but they’re around and theyContinue reading “Flies – I may be overthinking this”
Marked Up 