RichC | November 29, 2024
Since the likelyhood of me getting a new Apple watch for Christmas is growing by the day (my wife Brenda has been inquiring), I’ve started my research as to what kind of watch face will give me ALL the information I would like to see. My goal is to replace the current Kamon watch face […]
Category: Apple, Photos, Technology, Tidbits |
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Tags: apple watch, complication, face, fitbit, kamon, versa2, watch
RichC | November 27, 2024
Here’s a quick video for a holiday shortened week, but picked up a few good ideas as this video flashed by on the social media site X.com.
Category: Social Media, Tidbits, Video |
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Tags: interesting, mp4, tips, video, x.com
RichC | November 19, 2024
According to Brian Roemmele on X.com: Magnetic North is now drifting faster than 30 miles per year. It has already moved back past geological north, a place it has not been for 1000s of years. … and Elon Musk added: We live on a thin crust of solid rock, beneath which is vast ball of […]
Category: Sailing, Science, Social Media, Tidbits |
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Tags: compass, elon musk, magnetic, Navigation, north, x.com
RichC | November 3, 2024
Goodbye Fruit Flies To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it 1/2′ with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid; mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever! Get Rid of Ants. Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. […]
Category: Advice, How-To, Tidbits |
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Tags: ants, bugs, fruit flies, insects, kitchen, tips
RichC | October 20, 2024
There is probably a better way to archive tips and articles from online magazines these days (it was easier when I just cut it out of the monthly paper magazine), but until then, saving snippets and tidbits to my blog is what I’ll do, even though I have a few ideas saved in my MacBook […]
Category: Archive, Tidbits, Woodworking |
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Tags: bandsaw, dowels, snippets, template, woodworking, workshop
RichC | October 12, 2024
Snipping from my digital woodworking magazines definitely become a habit, although I’m not sure I’ll remember how to find them, even though they are archived on the blog (or keep myself from marking up the image with digital red marks)! 😊 Nevertheless, the one above might be useful IF I make the edge guide a […]
Category: Archive, Blogs, Ideas, Tidbits, Woodworking |
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Tags: clipping, ideas, magazine, snippet, woodworking, workshop
RichC | September 26, 2024
Once again, a social media “what is it” post (on X.com) intrigued me enough to comment on the glass insulators that were used on phone lines for years … especially along the railroad tracks when I was a kid. The antique photo triggered a Throwback Thursday #TBT memory of hanging out in an area behind […]
Category: Idioms, Memories, Social Media, TBT, Tidbits |
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Tags: glass, railroad, slingshot, TBT, tracks, wrist rocket
RichC | September 15, 2024
The summer growing season is over and I’m eating the last of the tomatoes that KDAE brought from NW Ohio. They were a real treat and “all for me” since I’m the only one in the family who loves and eats tomatoes. They were so much better than store bought. Also, I know I sort […]
Category: Archive, Ideas, Personal, Photos, Tidbits, Woodworking |
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Tags: clamps, garden, jorgensen, rack, tomatoes, workshop
RichC | September 8, 2024
If you’ve been checking in daily, you’re likely tired of seeing woodworking ideas, tidbits and magazine clipping? I’ll try to promise that this is the last of them in my “to archive on the blog” folder for a little while. First, the Rockler sled is something I sort of already have … but still worth […]
Category: Archive, Ideas, Tidbits, Tools, Woodworking |
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Tags: articles, glancys, jibs, magazine, oil finish, rockler, snippets, tablesaw, woodworking
RichC | August 29, 2024
Last year about this time, I posted about making or buying a Rockler Box Joint Jig for my router table. Eventually I did buy it on sale a few months ago but with summer arriving, I didn’t find the time to work in the basement workshop. While catching up on some woodworking magazine reading last […]
Category: Hobby, Ideas, Tidbits, Woodworking |
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Tags: box, jig, lumber, magazine, project, rockler, router, router table, woodworking
RichC | August 9, 2024
While looking on Wikipedia for for the history of old the adage “A picture is worth a thousand words,” I came across an interesting 1913 newspaper clipping from the town just south of my adopted hometown of Sidney, Ohio — that of Piqua, Ohio. It is always interesting to stumble across tidbits from the past […]
Category: Idioms, Politics, Social Media, Tidbits |
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Tags: adage, clipping, idiom, kamala harris, ohio, piqua, sidney, tim walz, twitter, wikipedia, x.com
RichC | July 17, 2024
Just a clipped “Pick of the Tricks” from Woodworker’s Journal (publishing will end with October 2024 issue) ☹️
Category: Ideas, Tidbits, Woodworking |
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Tags: apron, idea, journal, magazine, tablesaw, woodsmith, woodworkers, woodworking, workshop
RichC | June 16, 2024
Really I’m just saving a couple of helpful photos to use when it comes to sewing heavy material or perhaps leather with the Sailrite WorkerB upgrade. It might help when remembering how to adjust the Ultrafeed sewing machine … although I do know this, but sew so infrequently that it is easy to forget. Knot […]
Category: Archive, Tidbits, Tools |
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Tags: leather, sailrite, sewing, stitches, ultrafeed, workerb
RichC | June 15, 2024
While clearing a few photos off my iPhone 7 Plus due to limited storage space this week, I decided it might be nice to archive a few photos … so “leftovers” from the week sounded like a good idea for this post. First, Brenda wanted a few new hooks for mops and things in the […]
Category: Archive, Misc, Personal, Photos, Repairs, Shopping, Technology, Tidbits, Video |
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Tags: amazon, baseball, congress, hooks, laundry room, leftovers, pump, security, wyze, wyzecam3, zoeller
RichC | June 14, 2024
After chatting with Brenda’s sisters and brother-in-laws about booking flights for a trip together, I mentioned that I was partial to Southwest Airlines. My brother-in-laws are both Delta fliers … and have a long history of booking business travel with the major airlines — I did feel as if I were ruffling feathers (text updates […]
Category: Advice, AI, Aviation, Technology, Tidbits, Travel |
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Tags: ai, airlines, artificial intelligence, assistant, booking, Computer, delta, kiplinger, search, southwest, tech friday, techfriday, tools
RichC | June 5, 2024
While reading paper or digital versions of magazines, I’m prone to clipping tips that I might find useful. Here’s one on soaking “just the bristles” of a varnish or polyurethane paint brush in solvent without the tips of the brush getting gunked up on the bottom. I have several wood handled brushes that I tried […]
Category: Tidbits, Tools, Woodworking |
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Tags: cleaning, magazines, paintbrush, tips, workshop
RichC | May 29, 2024
Last weekend Drew and Katelyn discussed their plans to bury pipes with yard pop-up that lead from their homes’ gutters and downspouts. I mentioned that I thought having downspout traps was essential when living on a property with trees, especially with underground drainage tiles. I think they agreed and will be adding them while finished […]
Category: Advice, Personal, Photos, Tidbits |
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Tags: downspouts, filter, gutters, homebuilding, homeownership, traps
RichC | May 21, 2024
See below … 😉 While we were under a Tornado warning earlier this month, I was outside in the backyard watching the storms to the north of our house (over the roof). There was A LOT of lightning, but surprisingly not all that much thunder? AND since today is my brother’s birthday, Happy Birthday […]
Category: Archive, Personal, Photos, Tidbits, Video, Weather |
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Tags: backyard, filler, mp4, ronc, thunderstorm, video
RichC | May 11, 2024
As someone who has spent their career in printing and publishing, I should know this, but why do so many creative people and graphic designers make reading magazines and some newspapers so painfully difficult? The typography in some is ridiculous. I enjoy reading in the evening when my eyes are tired and the lighting is […]
Category: Business, Human Interest, Memories, Tidbits |
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Tags: brenda, cvs.com, design, facility, foreign affairs, magazine, printing, reading, soma, typography
RichC | May 2, 2024
Every once in a while there is a doppelgänger photo, person, sculpture or something that reminds me of someone else (software isn’t always accurate). 😉 Also a few years back, there was a person who reminded me of my brother Ron, so I posted about it. Back October 2011 at my nephew’s wedding, there was […]
Category: Human Interest, Photos, Social Media, TBT, Tidbits |
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Tags: doppelgänger, family, look-alike, photo, sculpture
RichC | April 23, 2024
As a “non-artist,” I’ve always admired (or had someone on the CPP payroll) who have had the ability and training to create art. Here’s a social media video tip for those of us who would just like to draw a car. 😊
Category: Art, Social Media, Tidbits, Video |
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Tags: car, drawing, mp4, tips
RichC | April 21, 2024
The social group that I waste too much time in reading and replying to each week on X.com (a bunch of car enthusiasts and a few automotive journalists) posted a photo of a 1984 Chevrolet Celebrity Eurosport last week. It was exactly like the second company car I had when working for Portage Newspaper Supply Company […]
Category: Automotive, Blogs, Financial, Tidbits, Volkswagen |
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Tags: beetle, bug, celebrity, Chevrolet, cincitdi, eurosport, katelyn, portage, Tim Hunter, volkswagen, vw
RichC | April 16, 2024
Last week when reading and posting about Berkshire Hathaway investments and Warren Buffett from Kiplinger, I also snipped a “Best Time to Book a Flight” sidebar.
Category: Advice, Aviation, News, Tidbits, Travel |
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Tags: air travel, cheapair.com, flight, kiplinger, snippet
RichC | March 9, 2024
Language usage is not one of my particular strengths … therefore I’m with the thought that “when in doubt reach for whom over who, just to be safe. Then get the ‘overcorrected’ mistakes …” — LINK A trick to figure it out, which we’ve mentioned before, is to substitute he or she in your sentence—and […]
Category: Advice, Blogs, Tidbits |
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Tags: lauguage, who, whom, writing, wsj
RichC | February 22, 2024
As an Apple eater, I’ve personally always wanted a simple way to know which and why I enjoy certain Apples. After seeing this chart, I thought it was worth sharing.
Category: Advice, Blogs, Food, Tidbits |
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Tags: apples, chart, food, fruit, graphic, grocery, sweet, tart
RichC | February 20, 2024
As a non-lawyer and someone who rarely finds a reason (or interest) in learning about our legal system, discussions arise and certain terms batted around that require more understanding. Last week it was the term “Amicus Brief” so figured it was worth adding to MyDesultoryBlog.com as a “tidbit“… not that anybody reading really wants to […]
Category: Tidbits |
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Tags: amicus brief, courts, justice system, law, legal, thoughtco
RichC | February 17, 2024
As an entrepreneur who has owned a business that sells in several Ohio counties and collects sales taxes (all counties are different), I do monitor the steady sales tax percentage increase over the decades of doing business. It is also interesting to know how managing a business in Ohio compares to other states (click map […]
Category: Business, Financial, Tidbits |
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Tags: foxbusiness, jeff bezos, map, ohio, sale tax, tax foundation, taxes
RichC | January 28, 2024
An email newsletter from the Tax Foundation offered up a few interesting tax oriented tidbits. Lady Godiva As the story goes, Lady Godiva famously rode a horse through Coventry, Warwickshire . . . in the nude. But why did this 11th-century noblewoman choose to do such a thing? Taxes. Lady Godiva pleaded with her husband, […]
Category: Financial, Politics, Tidbits |
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Tags: albert einstein, charles dickens, interesting, lady godiva, tax foundation, taxes
RichC | January 26, 2024
This will probably excite my geeky readers on a Tech Friday … but am trying to decide if old 3-1/2” disks should be trashed or used at “disposable” drink coasters. BTW, who remembers Apple Computer’s Hypercard? EDIT: Thought … perhaps making thin wooden bases and inlay a disk to make a more creative coaster.
Category: Apple, Computer, Photos, Technology, Tidbits, Woodworking |
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Tags: apple, coasters, hypercard, project, tech friday, techfriday, trash
RichC | January 25, 2024
A post from over a decade ago highlighted a beach find that was rather unique for the east coast of Florida … a BIG eye … so figure for this ThrowBack Thursday #TBT it would be a way to then comment on a Portuguese Man O’ War spawn this week along Delray Beach. Although there […]
Category: Nature, Photos, TBT, Tidbits, Travel |
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Tags: beach, big eye, delray beach, florida, man o war, TBT, walking
RichC | January 19, 2024
When it comes to taking phones on a cellphones (especailly low light) … the cameras on all smartphones have definitely improved over the past decade. I’ll let you guess which photo above was my iPhone 7 Plus and which one was Brenda’s iPhone 14?
Category: Apple, Cellphone, Photography, Photos, Technology, Tidbits |
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Tags: camera, iphone14, iphone7plus, smartphones, tech friday, techfriday
RichC | January 17, 2024
What parent hasn’t made that Great White Shark face and an excellent sailboat name.
Category: Humor, Tidbits |
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Tags: boat, Humor, lego, meme, no problem, problem, shark
RichC | January 11, 2024
All woodworkers making projects tinker with making joints and deciding on which ones are best for their drawers, frames and boxes. I’ve experimented with a variety usually based on traditional construction and visual appeal. BUT I also assumed certain joints were stronger an provided both glue and mechanical strength necessary (ie. drawers getting closed and […]
Category: Tidbits, Video, Woodworking |
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Tags: jointery, scott walsh, woodworking, workshop, youtube
RichC | December 29, 2023
The IRS has set the new tax brackets to adjust for inflation beginning in January 2024. The update is to shift higher by 5.4%, but for 2023 taxes that most of us will be filing before April 15 and saw even more “bracket creep” due to the previously year’s inflation. Here are the changes […]
Category: Financial, News, Tidbits |
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Tags: 2024, fbn, fox business, income tax, irs, rates, taxes, usatoday
RichC | December 6, 2023
Read the full article in Phys.org Ok … so it is not “manned,” but check out these physics facts from Discover Magazine anyway 😉 Q: Why does the moon always present the same face to us? I find it impossible to believe that this could happen by chance. — Michael Connelly, Toronto A: Nope, not […]
Category: Science, Space, Tidbits |
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Tags: discover, moon, nasa, peregrine, physics, space
RichC | December 2, 2023
Loved this @Rainmaker1973 X.com post about digital storage and in particular USB flash drives (also enjoyed the photo): Nope. Paradoxically (and theoretically), the more you save on a flash drive, the lighter it gets. USB drives use Flash memory, which means the the ones and zeros of the data are stored on transistors. When you […]
Category: Social Media, Technology, Tidbits |
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Tags: digital, flashdrive, ssd, storage, thumbdrive, twitter, usbdrive, x.com
RichC | November 16, 2023
Of course this was found on social media: X.com … so take it with a grain of salt 😊 (also tinkering with columns for WordPress)
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Tags: column, english, language, tidbit, twitter, x.com
RichC | November 15, 2023
After one year of Costco Executive membership it was time to ask the “is it worth it” question. Thankfully for us, after one year, it did pay for itself for the first year. For us, at least for the first year, being an Executive Member vs Gold Star Member at Costco did pay off, but […]
Category: Advice, Financial, Shopping, Tidbits |
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Tags: analysis, cost benefit, costco, credit card, executive membership, Shopping
RichC | November 12, 2023
While looking thorough my library borrowed e-version copy of Woodworker’s Journal magazine (Oct/Nov 2023), I scanned an interesting tip. Since the paraffin wax that I usually apply to a heated wood screw take a little more effort (butane torch the screw threads and stick it in the wax), I thought I might try this great […]
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Tags: reader tip, tips, woodworking, woodworking journal, workshop
RichC | November 5, 2023
So here’s a piece of advice that I really should have clearly known before my age. Old Spice High Endurance deodorant is significantly better than Classic deodorant (said to be discontinued … and now I know why). Don’t ever think you are going to save a buck buying the steeply-discounted 3-pack of Classic deodorant when […]
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Tags: advice, body odor, deoderant, old spice, psa, smell
RichC | October 26, 2023
Most people enjoy a day or week at the beach, but few who are younger get the opportunity to spend much more time than that enjoying the sand and surf. Thankfully Brenda and I have figured out how to do it … even if it is not on a sailboat as I had planned. While […]
Category: Music, Tidbits |
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Tags: clouds, earth, joni mitchell, maps, seasons, sun, visual
RichC | October 4, 2023
As the leaves begin to fall, it is a reminder that winter is around the corner. Will it be a harsh one or mild? Check with the Woolly Bear. Canadian and U.S. folklore holds that the relative amounts of brown and black hair on a larva indicate the severity of the coming winter. It is […]
Category: Nature, Tidbits, Weather |
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Tags: caterpillar, tiger moth, winter, woolly bear
RichC | October 3, 2023
Let’s just call this a PSA since I’ve been busy rethinking My Desultory Blog themes after updating to PHP 8.2 and how at least use the thousands of old blog entries for reference … or more precisely, remembering things! Anyway, the monthly “Archives” section is the same (select a previous month), but the “Calendar” was […]
Category: Advice, Blogs, Technology, Tidbits |
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Tags: blog, calendar, hurricane, Navigation, psa, tips, wikipedia, wilma, wordpress
RichC | September 25, 2023
How to hang a picture on a nail with a fork social media household tip (short video below).
Category: How-To, Social Media, Tidbits, Video |
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Tags: fork, frame, home, mp4, picture, tips, twitter, x.com
RichC | September 23, 2023
I had to laugh at myself the while reading one of the World War II Pacific Island campaign history books then looking up at my cork wall and trying to “pinch-to-zoom” the paper map for more details. Oh, the tech habits we adopt! And since this is a random kind of filler humor post, below […]
Category: Books, History, Human Interest, Humor, Tidbits |
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Tags: autumn, autumnal equinox, florida, History, Humor, license plates, maps, pacific, pinch-to-zoom, ww2
RichC | September 5, 2023
There was an interesting tidbit shared on X.com (formerly Twitter) that highlighted in graphical color where a states population was born. It highlights movements from different areas of the country to other areas, populations who were not transient … as well as what state people born outside the US made home.
Category: Social Media, Tidbits |
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Tags: america, chart, graph, states, twitter, x.com
RichC | August 26, 2023
Since I now have a few more featherboards to use with my table saw and router table, it seemed like a good idea to add a couple T-Tracks. Most modern woodworking workshops now seem to use these anodized aluminum tracks for a variety of purposes … they will be helpful for hold downs on my […]
Category: Ideas, Tidbits, Woodworking |
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Tags: fence post, router, router table, t-track, tablesaw, workshop
RichC | August 24, 2023
While visiting with my extended family at my Uncle Sonny’s Celebration of Life earlier this month, a few of us exchanged phone numbers so we could better stay in touch. My cousin Dan forwarded a paper that highlighted my Grandfather Corbett’s Sinclair gas station and Earl’s Auto Service in South Toledo. It was interesting to […]
Category: AI, Archive, Automotive, Aviation, Business, History, Memories, Personal, Photos, TBT, Tidbits |
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Tags: 1937, auto service, boeing, chatgpt, clipper, earl corbett, family, ohio, pan am, prouty, sikorsky, spencer, toledo
RichC | August 18, 2023
Proton Mail offers a free email service with limitations … as expected. There is a paid version which over time I’ve contemplated switching to for both the enhanced privacy and ability to use my old original business email domain: whatevername@cppnet.com. The monthly (yearly) subscription price is reasonable, but since I already run several Linux servers […]
Category: Advice, Business, Computer, How-To, Technology, Tidbits |
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Tags: cppnet.com, email, gmail, live.com, netaddress, proton, protonmail, tips, trash, usa.net
RichC | July 31, 2023
Today’s Music Monday song by Looking Glass is one nearly every generation that enjoys pop music would find difficult not to like. Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl) is about as popular as a song can get in the early 1970s. It rose to #1 in the charts in 1972. Interesting tidbit: Following the song’s release […]
Category: Music, Tidbits, Video |
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Tags: barry manilow, brandy, looking glass, mp4, music monday, musicmonday, youtube
RichC | July 26, 2023
Katelyn and Drew brought us back some Rowdy barbecue sauce when they took a trip to Tennessee in the spring. I didn’t get a chance to use it until last week — chicken wings in the toaster oven (better than Buffalo sauce?) Anyway, a belated thanks; it is delicious. A chart/graph in the WSJ last […]
Category: Financial, Food, Tidbits |
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Tags: barbeque, chart, economy, graph, homebuiding, housing, kdae, recession, wsj
RichC | July 18, 2023
Nothing earth shattering from the working around the house projects, but archiving a couple photos from staining a section of last years repaired fence … to more repairing of fences as well as using TiteBond 3 glue as before (this could be a forever project — our fences are deteriorating A LOT). I was going […]
Category: Archive, Repairs, Tidbits, Tools |
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Tags: battery, fence, paslode, repair, titebond3, weekend
RichC | July 8, 2023
Once you learn something and then hear it used incorrectly, it makes me cringe. I wanted to correct someone on the news last week using the phrase “handle with kid gloves” … knowing the original was to “handle with kit gloves.” Oh well … Origin The origin of the term ‘kit gloves’ can be tracked […]
Category: Idioms, Tidbits |
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Tags: etymology, fox, idiom, idioms, kid gloves, kit gloves, phrase
RichC | July 7, 2023
One of the TWO reasons that I’ve opted for the Ridgid brand of cordless power tools is their LSA … which I’ve used once before on a couple of early batteries. Besides the minor hassle in registering and filing a claim, it seems to be the right way to go considering the problems with tools […]
Category: Advice, Misc, Shopping, Technology, Tidbits, Tools, Woodworking |
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Tags: 9Ah, ani gif, anigif, battery, blower motor, claim, inverter, lithium, lithium-ion, lsa, ridgid, tech friday, techfriday, tools, warranty, workshop
RichC | July 2, 2023
While contemplating a previous idea for a router guide (photo) … and waiting for paint to dry (it was raining on Saturday), I made a push sled for my router table. I’m not sure the hold down will really do much, but added it with a couple spare parts from my drill press table. Edit: […]
Category: Tidbits, Tools, Woodworking |
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Tags: octagon, project, pushsled, pushstick, router, router table, side table, tool, woodworking
RichC | July 1, 2023
Before I archive clipped workshop tips and ideas to a computer folder (saved in a place I will never look again => #humor), ideas that I’ve snipped from a variety of library borrowed woodworking magazines, I’m going to save them to my blog. If I were sharing and posting correctly, I would footnote or at […]
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Tags: idea, project, woodworking, workshop
RichC | June 24, 2023
Most of us know from Geography class that the country of Chile in South America is a narrrow but l-o-n-g country … but may not have a perspective as to it’s entire length. A “map website,” BrilliantMaps, that I follow on Twitter posted a couple photos illustrating just how long (or tall) it is. It […]
Category: Social Media, Tidbits, Travel |
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Tags: brilliantmaps.com, chile, geography, maps, twitter