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Finished the mini bedroom audio rack with Rubio Monocoat and glued it up. Now in place and making me happy. Also shown are the Bendy Head headphone stand from Peter @Iron_Dreamer and coasters from Nate. Thanks again guys, and thanks to Steve for the design, lumber, and help building!

Building back on the new job. The painters have their work cut out for them, making the battered old trim look good. I only have to trim two doors with old trim. You know you're working on an old house when the nails you remove look like this.

I originally pictured this stand with Maple legs. Then we discovered the White Oak, which is either leftover from the floating bench I built for Mizen, or the recent railing I built for Mizen. I got a screaming deal on the Mahogany as Al stated, and new it was going to make a beautiful table or stand. I really love this combination, and time will deepen the Mahogany similarly to Cherry. Love the "chunkiness" made elegant by the tapered legs. I had a lot of fun building this with Milo, and love that he gets to enjoy this piece, as he's always building for others. Our next project for Claire is also going to be a fun build. Stay tuned.

All leakage issues haven’t been solved, but fingers crossed.

Toto, I don't think we're in Florida anymore...

I would much rather have snow over the nasty rain. I actually enjoyed shoveling the driveway. First time in at least seven years. Not sure how long the enjoyment will last.

"Misery Rain" is a great and quite applicable term, Nate. That shit just digs into your bones!

What is this? An audio rack for Ants?? and are you taking orders?

Welcome to Vermont

Mad science shit... I got it mostly dialed in. But after pulling six double shots, sampling them all and drinking two of them completely, I am buzzed...

That rack is one sexy beast. Excellent job gentlemen.

Ayup. Down here on the coast we’re just getting misery rain, defined by me as when it’s sub-40, raining, and so windy as to render an umbrella useless (horizontal rain). I had to tour some folks around yesterday and it was properly nasty outside. Slightly better today with flurries in the forecast so it would appear there’s a chance of winter arriving this year.

Awesome, looks fantastic!

Beautiful work guys. Love it!

All kinds of win in that photo set. enjoy my friend.

Skeet, skeet, skeet.

Sexy as fuck.

So the Grammy nominations are out... boy am I out of touch with popular tastes. Put a few song of the year candidates on and this isn't bad! I don't think Olivia Rodrigo has much to worry about from this girl but the song is a bit of an ear worm.

Aretha Franklin - Aretha I grew up with the usual, Respect, Natural Woman, Chain of Fools. Sadly, I associated her with tv commercials and the past her prime singer. I decided to check out her first album. I'm glad I did.

Now I’ve listened to CFA3smd something with switched mode power supply for almost 2 months and I’m happy with it. So, no plan for a golden reference supply. I’m too lazy and I think the switched power supply is good enough for me. Next “project” is how to power a Tube Hybrid. The Hybrid needs +100V, -5V and 6.3VAC for the tubes. The PSU has to be rebuilt. The amplifier board is finished, in theory…

A delicious omen for the weekend...

The Twin Eagles has landed.

Drove far out to a recommended BBQ place in Simi Valley, only to find out that their online stock listings are not accurate. Got on the phone and found a place with a Twin Eagles pellet grill with rotisserie in stock at a place 10 minutes from the house. Grrr. I have to get the stone recut (it's not deep enough). Um, I guess I find someone locally to do that? In the meantime, picked up some ridiculously good ZEF BBQ while I was out there. I love brisket—why isn't all meat like that?

My nickel: 1. The new timberlines do look very nice. I've thought about adding an induction side burner to my Ironwood 885 and still may some day but for now I'm lazy. 2. I don't think the 780 would be enough. I routinely use a lot of my 885 just cooking for small groups and when smoking bacon the real estate is very helpful. 3. One concern with the Timerblines, they may be too well insulated for their own good for warm weather cooking. You need some inefficiency to cause the grill to use fuel and produce, well, fire/smoke. The Ironwood is only partially insulted and still is pretty stingy on fuel during the summer months. I'd at least way for a few reviews and see how some actual cooks do on these rigs. 4. I love my Ironwood 885. Would I also like a stick burner? Yes. How about a kamado-style charcoal rig? Absolutely. But today I got up at 7, fired up the Traeger while I got Andrew ready for basketball camp, threw on a small pork shoulder and went to the office. I checked temps while I worked for a few hours, picked up the kids and came home. I actually looked in on things and they were still cruising nicely so I wrapped the butt, and left it. My parents arrived a few hours later, I checked on things via my phone, saw the pork wasn't coming up to temp fast enough so I bumped the cook up 25 degrees without leaving my chair. Just an hour later my phone let me know that the pork had reached temp and I went and took it off. That's pretty damn convenient and the food produced is easily as good or better than most BBQ I can buy locally. I'm sure there's better out there, but I'm also sure I'd have to drive an hour or more to find it. 5. Coming from an actual stick burner you might need to temper expectations a little. The flavor will be different. Whether you think it's better or worse is impossible to predict but the fires are radically different between the two types of smokers and the food produced will at least be a little different, but unlikely to be radically different.

Making Mother's Day dinner for my family, my parents, and the in-laws. Brisket and ribs are looking good. This was earlier this morning.

RIP Robert Clary, LeBeau on Hogan's Heroes and a Holocaust/concentration camp survivor....amazing story. https://nypost.com/2022/11/16/robert-clary-hogans-heroes-star-and-auschwitz-survivor-dead-at-96/