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I used to be, difficult, at times.I tattooed an anarchy sign in my right calf a decade ago. Today, I sent an email that complained we were intentionally leaving a project in an indeterminate state. I’m no longer Schroedinger with a cat.
I’m not sure if this is an improvement.

Get a cord that’ll do the powering. Ideally I’ll want a variable speed foot switch. This is totally negotiable though. I probably should add a kill switch though. Safety!
Mount the deconstructed portable drill to a length of 2×4. Make some protection for the cord with whatever clamp. I could go three 1x4s instead, and use a slight offset for the cable run.
On the outside of the assembly, add drawer slides. Add an assembly of 2x4s or 1x4s as the frame. I need to figure out what dimensions I need in a drillpress.
At the top of the assembly, add some eye-bolts or something to run cable (or rope) that will go from drill head to a counterweight to give an elevated neutral position.

I need wood, clamps, eye-bolts, cable or rope, power supply, kill switch, safety goggles, a good triangle with level, rando nuts and bolts sufficient to the task, furniture slides.

So how to start… I think I need to define goals.
1. Float (that might seem like a no brainer, but really if the boat don’t float…)
2. Add a sail. I’ll verify the sail is achieving force with a tub of water, a fan, and a force sensor. I thought for 15 seconds that a bathtub would work. Then I realized that was dumb.
3. Add a motorized controller for the sail. Maybe The rudder also.. yeah, I should look at how sailboats work.
4. Kill switch to drop the sail.
5. Live test. Swim trunks. Greenlake. Tether.

Now I think I should build a wind tunnel also. A very small wind tunnel. More of a wind box?

Right. The Wif is going out of town next Friday for something like two and a half weeks. I’m doing stuff.
1. Look into doing a data line from the main floor to the den.
2. Think about doing Comcast. Too much money, too much aggravation.
3. Shelfify the garage.
This will be an odd one, because I think my build quality may or may not allow me to do the other rooms. Obviously I do what I want in the den, but beyond that…
4. I think I might mod one of our craptastic portable drills. I really want to turn one into a drill press.
5. Clean out the den. We’re thinking of adding another cat to the mix so it’d be good to have more usable room.
6. Bottle beer and get the next batch going.
I’m sure there’s more, but that’s the top of the pile (maybe).

Been busy. I’ve got projects at home. Projects at work. What I don’t have though is progress. Our at least progress I wrote about on public blogs as I’m way anal retentive about taking about work outside of work. I did get my first workflow in JobFlow working sweet. Now the rest.
BTW, any time you have your boss sounding skeptical that things ate getting done on projects like that. Well. I guess that’s why he’s the boss…

Christopher Robin (A. A. Milnes’ character from Winnie the Pooh) mashed together with (some rapper, don’t know who I’d use) as a Twitter bot. Just a thought.

Beer brewing and coffee brewing have so much and so little in common. I really want to build a better system for both.
Coffee:
The pod coffee systems (Keurig and stuff) do a decent cup, but the amount of packaging kills me. Also, I don’t drink a cup of coffee. If there’s dregs in the pot, I’ll drink those while I get another pot going. So I need a water reservoir (or plumb it), a heater element, a hopper, and an output. Bonus points for the hopper filling itself and dumping itself. More bonus points for a sensor package where I give it the specs of the bean/roast/grind and it gives me great coffee. Extra bonus points for a barcode scanner to enter in those specs on the fly as a lookup table.
I’ve got some ideas for start I’m envisioning. I should lookup the ideal temperature for beautifully made coffee. That’s going to drive a lot of the design I think.
Beer:
Writing about coffee made me think about some of that as well. The major challenge I think will be temperature again. Looking online I think I’ll need to get two heater elements on different circuits bit I’ll have to check the house’s wiring. While a 110v element will get to temperature eventually it would be a lot easier if it didn’t take an hour and a half. I think I’ll rewatch the episode of BrewTV with Will Wheaton to nail down the process I’m looking at doing.

(Fremont?) Summer Ale at Cinerama.
Red face/cheeks
Puffy cheeks, hands (hands might be normal dehydration)
Bleh feeling in stomach, got wise with time, roughly two hour recovery

Appeared unfiltered, might have had active yeast of I guessed.

Pulled the trigger. I’m registered and going to school starting 6/27, assuming they don’t cancel my class. I am the fourth person registered. I wonder if it’s because of the hours involved. The word thing is thinking about how much more expensive school is since I was enrolled at UW. If I remember it was only 1500 for a full load there, but this quarter well be 600 for one class.
I am feeling optimistic though.