Posted By RichC on October 10, 2020
As a dad who has always kept up and archived the “goings-on” with Taylor and Katelyn on MyDesultoryBlog, I realized that grandchildren steal the limelight most of the time … that is just the way it is. But … that doesn’t mean life doesn’t keep moving along for adult children in the work-a-day world either.
This past week, Taylor updated me on “creating his first subdivision” as a planner. To be sure, he has worked on several in both North Dakota and here in Ohio, but this will be the first for him from the start professionally. What dad isn’t happy to see their grown 
children wanting to share these kinds of accomplishments? I am very proud and impressed.
He is also in that phase of life where big life changes happen. Good friends take jobs in different states (his closest friend Mike will soon be moving to Maine), a few who are married are having children … and good buddies like Cam Harter are getting married. Besides the guys of the wedding party having a great bachelor party at Lake Tahoe amidst COVID19 situation (photos above), they had a great wedding in Cincinnati this past month. Congratulations Margaret and Cameron.
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Posted By RichC on October 9, 2020
A Hollywood style TRUMP sign goes up in California “on private property” … then it is promptly taken down by California Department of Transportation citing “a life and safety issue.” Hm … I’m sure that’s what it was … and that it has nothing to do with the aggressive, anti-Trump, left-leaning politics of politicians in California. #sarcasm
It is hard to believe that “speech, debate, expression, etc” that was once the hallmark of liberal academia and of those who lean politically left are 
now being openly squelched and censored if they don’t conform to their ideology. An individuals freedom and liberty is openly under attack and yet many Americans seem willing to let it happen, so as long is it fits their political view.
Sadly it is happening when it comes to the Supreme Court as well .. no longer do Democrats seek justices who interpret cases based on the Constitution, but desire ones who actively write and rule to advance their desired outcome.
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Posted By RichC on October 8, 2020
While doing some the pool house garage cleaning and reorganizing over the past couple of weeks, a piece of the old shag carpeting I duct taped onto
the old wooden ladder I acquired in the 1980s fell off. As usual, it triggered memories.
First, the good times Brenda and I had with our sailboat Brenich, pre-kids, then Tulla with kids and finally many years of using this same old wooden ladder to climb into the loft of the barn both in Hudson, Ohio and then for the last 20 years to the loft in the pool house garage. I’ve probably been up and down the ladder thousands of times and I still regularly put up Christmas lights and wreaths and it is the “ladder of choice” to get onto the lower roofs, even though I have an aluminum one. In all that time the scraps of carpet I taped to the ladder, to prevent scratching the the boat, stayed in place … until last week when a piece fell off. It was only then that I noticed the real carpet color and remembered it from my families house on Lake Erie. It was once wrapped the round footstool we fondly referred to as “the pig.” Great memories.
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Posted By RichC on October 7, 2020
The Sailrite LSZ-1 sewing machine cart is complete and turned out great. Everything worked as planned (a rarity for me) and didn’t have to purchase anything new.
The wider oak material was sitting in my stock shelf, the edge banding for the fold out table stripped from the glass top of my recently disassembled printing flats storage (type galley trays case) and the 1/2” plywood leftover from my crosscut sled. As for hardware, the brackets from the laundry room upgrade (didn’t use), the brass screws from Katelyn and Drew’s cherry “wedding wagon” project and durable white floor/shelf paint from the steps and mudroom update.
Although I had been planning to turn the red workshop cart from my dad into a sewing workstation for a while now, the inspiration to get it done came from the Mythbusters special effects expert, Adam Savage (his YouTube channel is addictive). Thanks!
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Posted By RichC on October 6, 2020
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Posted By RichC on October 4, 2020
In my goal to gain space in the poolhouse garage (a failure) and clearing out and cleaning the east-side wall, I shifted my attention to the beat-up bench top. Part of this was just clearing the workbench of junk, then reorganizing and cleaning each shelf. The boxes have been sort-of shuffled (drawers ignored), but I lost momentum in throwing “good” junk and clutter away (although last weeks garbage haul was good).
Wednesday night, I took down the shade sails, ran a few boards through my new DeWalt planer and decided to sand workbench top to get it smooth and prepped rather than interrupt Brenda’s streaming marathon of Grimm. She claims it is a good series but frankly I can’t take watching any more TV … Tuesdays’ nasty presidential debate burned me out.
Finally though, after the clearing and sanding, I added some Zip-Guard protection from my leftover jar … so the bench should be good for a few more years.
And since this is a semi-wrenching post, I’ll slip in this “Why math is important” image below the break.
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Posted By RichC on October 3, 2020
As much as I love working in an organized space, for the life of me I have trouble keeping it that way. Also, I can’t get rid of things I use, might 
use or that are too good to sell or toss. The truth is that I have the packrat gene. My parents were not quick to let go of something they bought or might need either. Come to think about it, neither was Brenda’s dad when it came to his barn.
Still, I’m glad to have whittled away at some of the junk piling up in the pool house garage. Since I cleared the wall (not shown), it exposed the old office supplemental heater that I used in my office in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio for those late nights when I didn’t want to heat the entire building. I installed it in the pool house garage thinking it would take the chill off of working in the garage (still works great – ani gif), but it was way too small. Instead, I installed a Mr. Heater hanging heater above the workspace AND woodstove in the corner – both work great.
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Posted By RichC on October 2, 2020
With Twitter $TWTR stock rising this week and the election around the corner, I debated buying a PUT option, but instead decided I would feel more comfortable in a cash position than wondering what direction the stock will move next time.
Years ago I unfortunately picked Twitter as my social network investment and for the most part would have been better just “trading” in and out of the stock. After years of ups and downs, rumors of selling the company and Congress reclassifying social networking platforms as “news” organizations … it basically the stock (or company) hasn’t turned out as planned. I’m sure now that I’m out, something will happen (isn’t that the way it always seems to be?)
So for now, I can relax in that I’m out of a speculative investment and rethink where I want to be as the next big change for Brenda and I will be retirement (5 or 6 short years away).
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Posted By RichC on October 1, 2020
While clearing out a little more garage clutter this past weekend in order to gain some space as the weather changes (things are getting too crowded), I finally ripped apart an old type galley cabinets that I hauled from my building in Cuyahoga Falls years ago.
Consolidated Printing and Publishing Co. wasn’t really an old enough company to work with lead type used in letterpress printing (started CPP in 1987) and all the peripheral equipment such as type cases, galley trays and cabinets. There were a few things that I ended up with … somehow …and they were too useful to not keep and use of other things. Our cabinet and trays and drawers became a place to store customer negatives, stripped flats and offset printing plates.
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children wanting to share these kinds of accomplishments? I am very proud and impressed. 
