Trying to fit a full sheet CNC in….
And this window had a little stained-glass thing in that did not let in much light. That means fill, texture, paint, and the new coating. Then I had the paint out so I ran around doing touch ups.
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Some wiring and a little concrete support for my wife’s kiln
Dodged a bullet here…
Yup… that’s °C, not °F… 300 more to go…
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Interesting take on a juice groove…
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Finding which pull box in the forest mice ate through my fibre feed to my Tree’biquiti wireless Internet connection for the 2nd time in a decade.
I think it’ll be getting filled full of gravel to cover the cable after resplicing this time.
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They’re determined little rodents, they are!
With the splice box below grade, I would be worried about water ingress as much as mice. Are they getting in through the cover, or are they burrowing in through the cable ports?
Boxes are dry… 3 feet of gravel under them, with most of them in sandy soil. Waterproof splices, too.
I think it got in through the stupid bolt hole notch they put in these irrigation valve boxes. They were taped up… years ago. Was thinking I should model a plug for them, but that hasn’t happened yet.
At least the mice appear to like the box furthest from the house. There’s a few, placed every ~500’, but none of the others have ever had signs of rodents.
Super handy having an OTDR these days. I remember them being so expensive in the past that the Bell guys walked around with them like they were protecting a nuclear football.
Found too late in the day to splice before it got dark; I guess my tomorrow will include hauling fibre splicing gear a half mile into the bush. At least if I don’t move an inch from where I’m sitting now, I kind of get one reliable bar of cell service.
Wow, having your own OTDR and fusion splicer. I’m jealous!
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Board lightly sanded, just cutting out French Cleat shelves. If those work out I’ll upload them to the thread later. 
Btw: round tabs reduce the cutting time from 45 to 30 minutes. It’s incredible. Upping the speed from 1400mm/min to 2000 brings it down to 20 minutes.
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Looks great!
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You all are doing such interesting things! Thank you all for sharing and Keep up the Great Work!!! High Five and Gold Stars to you All
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I am almost completely finished with a marathon coding project in which I crammed way too much coding time into about 2.5 months, creating from scratch a multi-tenant SaaS platform for 50 state affiliates of a national nonprofit. Just a couple of finishing touches left now. Also crammed into the same time period making custom wall cabinets that make a giant flatscreen TV look like a giant Nintendo Switch. Due to the cabinets client both ignoring my warning that I thought the depth in the cabinets was not going to be sufficient and ignoring my detailed drawings of what was proposed, and yet signing off on everything, only to later say, the depth in the cabinets is not sufficient, I have to revisit the cabinets, and instead of just saying, “I tried to tell you” — I will simply overcome the client’s inability to accept clear communication.
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You are being too nice. 
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Why have one, when you can have two?
Nothing to be jealous of, though. Dot com bust era Siemens Siecor X75s; although I see they’re currently fetching a couple thousand or so… a 10th of what they were new and 10 times more than what I paid for them about 15 years ago. Good enough for the ~1000 splices I’ve made with them; and for a long time (perhaps still) a lot more convenient after a storm/damage in the middle of the night than trying to find someone at least an hour and a half away, or bribing the Bell guys with rum to use the one unit they had locally.
The OTDR is awesome sauce, though; and they’re pretty cheap these days.
Now I can get back to what I was supposed to be doing this week.
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I kinda like how , even in this situation, you still seem to keep nice… my own words would’ve been “I told you” , which doesn’t convey the same feeling 
I’ll take notes 
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We’re both wanting to maintain a good relationship and wanting to fix the problem rather than play blame game. He was swamped and overloaded during the time I was sending him the drawings for approval. Everybody makes mistakes.
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Wow, personal attack right here…
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I thought today was an exceptional day and I made a mistake.
Turns, out, I was wrong. It was a typical day- and I made multiple mistakes.
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The best way I’ve found to do that is with $$$$. But it sounds like you found a better solution and can work it out. That is really the better way.
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I’m modifying the cabinets to make them deeper. Very likely he will pay me for the extra time in modifying them. He knows that the failure was in him not paying closer attention attention to what I showed him. But if he doesn’t pay me I’m still OK with doing it. They’re good people and they’ve already had me do more than one job and there’s probably more jobs in the future.
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