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Week of March 11, 2024
The warm weather and extra daylight at the end of the day has been a welcome change. Every night this week Amanda, Charlie, and I spent some time outside after daycare/work and before dinner. We are dinner outside multiple times this week, went for walks, cooked dinner on the grill, got our outdoor seating out,…
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Workbench build
Step two of the workshop upgrade. Previously: Insulating and heating my workshop with a diesel heater Research and design The workshop is a small 10×14′ space, so I needed to be very intentional about where I put this workbench to maximize work area. The previous owner had haphazardly installed a 72″x20″ particleboard desk top as…
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Insulating and heating my workshop with a diesel heater
I mentioned this in some weekly posts, but wanted to write a dedicated one so I have a place to link to in the future. Working out in my 10’x14′ workshop on a cold day in January and shivering, I resolved to finally put in some heat. My first idea was a tiny top-loading wood…
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Week of March 4, 2024
Lots of rain this week, so we did indoor activities like going to the library, going to the grocery store, and making ambulances out of boxes. This box is still in our living room, though now Charlie calls it his “garage” and likes to hide underneath it while we walk around the house and call…
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Adding a Climbing Wall to an A-frame Swing Set
Part one is making the basic A-frame swing set: https://cagrimmett.com/2022/08/06/building-a-swing-set-with-a-frame-brackets/ This is part two. Part three is adding a slide platform: https://cagrimmett.com/2025/05/03/adding-a-slide-platform-to-an-a-frame-swing-set/ Last year I added a climbing wall to one of the sides and my son loves it. A friend asked for the details, which made me realize I should have posted the details…
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Week of February 26, 2024
My birthday was this week! I wrote a post about it. I’m continuing to work on my workshop upgrade as much as I can. This week I: Things are starting to come together nicely and I’m pretty happy about it! I’m getting excited about working in there more. Posts also forthcoming on the general upgrade…
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Thirty-four
What is the difference between these birthday posts and the year-end posts? The dust has settled on the new year reflections and this is a good time to think about my past year and the coming year outside of the context of holidays and resolutions. This morning Amanda and Charlie put out some birthday decorations…
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Weeks of Feb 12 and 19, 2024
The big event two weeks ago was a snow storm on Tuesday. We got 11″ of snow here in Peekskill, the most in the region. Daycare was closed, along with everything else, so Amanda and I switched off hanging out with Charlie while the other worked. No snow days is a downside of remote work!…
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Week of February 5, 2024
I decided to go forward with the workshop upgrades, so that has been taking most of my time outside of work this week. The current plan: I spent a lot of time this weekend glueing together 2x4s and planing them for the bench top. After not pre-planing and jointing them in the first section, I…
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Week of January 29, 2024
Teething, friends, working with tools, and shop redesigns.
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Week of January 22, 2024
So many courses and membership platforms with private log-in built on WordPress are trivially easy to circumvent because they don’t lock down access to the REST API endpoints. Related, Vimeo’s domain-level privacy setting is also trivially easy to circumvent as long as you know which domain it is supposed to be embedded on. It relies…
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Week of January 15, 2024
Snow, Charlie’s skits, baking, sharing recipes, and workshop plans
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2024 Redesign
This redesign started with a simple note in Obsidian: Simplify. Keep the orange, but have less of it. Too much in nav. Move most of the extra info into pages linked off the About page. I also wanted something with a sidebar again. I wanted to stick with the Site Editor, so I used a child-theme…
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Week of January 8, 2024
The snow melted by the end of the day Tuesday because of all the rain we had. More is forecasted for this week though! This has been a wild weather week around the US. On a single day, US folks on my team shared in Slack that they experienced tornados, flooding, heavy wind, and heavy…
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Turning a Carving Mallet
I want to share my process more here on the blog, so here is how I made a carving mallet on Sunday. I made this mallet so that I can use it to strike gouges for bowl carving, which I want to experiment with. This style of mallet is easier to use for striking gouges…
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Week of January 1, 2024
New Year’s Day feels like the only real rest day we had during the holiday break. This week was back-to-work. Tuesday night we made pizza and calzones from the extra NYE dough. I’m really getting the hang of shaping the dough and using the Ooni. My daily stretching and drawing resolution is going well. I’m…
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Pingbacks and Personal Connections
Matt Mullenweg’s birthday wish is for people to blog. I thought I’d blog about how blogging has connected me with all different kinds of people, most of whom I’ve never met in person, just through the simple act of writing something on my own domain and hitting “Publish.” Here is a non-complete list of blog…
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Weeks of December 18 and 25, 2023 🎄
The end of both the autumn season and the calendar year. On the shortest day of the year we celebrated our friend Meg’s birthday at The Central, where her husband set up a surprise party and urged us all to get sitters and have a night out. We are glad we did. It was fun…
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2024 Resolutions
I used to be against making New Year’s resolutions (2009). I’ve eased up on that in the last decade and have tried some other methods, such as listing out 20 specific things I want to do for a yearly task list or setting a yearly theme. Both of those worked pretty well. This year I…
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Top 3 (2023)
I started answering the 40 Questions this year, then realized about a quarter of the way through that I didn’t really want to answer them. Not my preferred format. Instead, I’m trying something else: Making a list of Top 3 things in various categories for the year.