— Beyoncé Hello, and happy April! Sometimes I think about what I’d do for work if everything went to shit with a demon cursing all computers and their programmers. Electrician is up there, and carpenter maybe. But tiler? Fuck no. Anyway the final wall tiles arrived on Saturday, and I
Hello! Happy Sunday :) This week I did start on the grouting, and dark grey on light tiles is a mess: I’ve since become more efficient, and it looks pretty! I imagined having the bathroom done this week — a bit more tiling, and the grouting, and some lights — but damn,
Hello! Happy Sunday. The expectations were indeed grout, but I did more tiling this week. Continuing the bathroom walls, and then on Thursday the concrete floor tiles arrived, all 170kg of them. Before starting on those, I stuck down a waterproof membrane and ordered some pizza. Also I fit the
Hello! So tiling is was great; the little section I did last Sunday was a first-time mess (I also didn't have a decent second trowel), but since then the monotony set in, and I'm looking forward to the end. But mostly done, and I love how
Hello! And happy Sunday. Those bathroom drains... eurgh, they were bugging me, and they leaked. They were also horribly inaccessible, and my brother's obsession with maintainability was ringing in my ears. These were anything but: completely sealed, and fragile. And I read Antifragile this week, so it'
Hello! And happy March :D First thing on the list this week, heating pipes: I found a better way to lay them this time, but they're still a pain. And then installing the drains: With some tests they do drain, mostly, but given the small tolerances I'
Halløjsa! In what may be a record for my shortest update, this week I managed some varnishing around work work before heading to Denmark this weekend. And the rest of the windows did arrive! Let's hope they fit, but I won't try until I take the
Hello, and happy Sunday! With parts in hand, on Monday I could finally finish those shower drains: You know that feeling of swizzling butter around a pan to cover the base, filling in the gaps? This is just like that, with liquid metal — it's the same little dopamine
Happy Sunday! I've been procrastinating on these shower drains, but on Tuesday I got myself together to finally figure them out. Going through the welder manual to set things up, I looked for the torch, squinted, then looked back at the manual. There in parenthesis, "torch not
Hello! And happy February :D I remember hearing some advice on project management, something like you should finish the first thing first. And it makes sense — the more you start, the more unfinished things to overwhelm you. This was always my strategy, except I wanted the bedroom and bathroom floors
Hello! Happy last-Sunday-of-January :) This week I continued with some of the tiling boards: Followed by fitting the bathroom shelves: And they're gonna look so good! After routing some nice edges on the bottom one, I started varnishing it with Epifanes, a mighty-hardy marine varnish, and complete overkill: Because
Hello! Happy Sunday. This week I finished the bathroom electrics, and... I went overboard: 48V coming in (because thinner wire for a smaller voltage drop across longer distances, the same principal behind our national grid), then dropping to 12V and distributing to the 4 components via relays — electronic switches triggered
Hello! And happy cold, frosty Sunday :) I got something done on the boat almost every day this week, which felt great; I only have ~4 months to go! But jeez I'm making this bathroom complicated — it's a slow iteration, in the "stop every 30 minutes
Hello, and Happy New Year! Inspired by my dad reminding me that 2025 is a perfect square (45², and I hope to live for the next one), I would also like to remind you it's the product of 2 squares (9² x 5²) and the sum of 3
Hello! I had a little time on Monday this week to fit the marine ply backboard for the bathroom electronics cupboard (no photo, sorry), but have been away for the rest of the week... To stretch that paragraph a little further, I thought it'd be fun to look
Hello! On Tuesday I did the final coat of varnish for the bathroom ceiling, followed by web surfing. It turns out people just cut veneer doors to size, then re-glue them, and... sure why not? I will do that too; it sounds messy but I'll make it work
Hello! All over the place this week, but on Tuesday I finished the bathroom ceiling, with a coat of varnish on Thursday: I went to do another coat on Friday, but "3 hours dry-to-touch" expands to 36 in this wet, cold weather. Instead I fitted some Munsen Rings
To ensure a system works, you have options: test the individual components ("unit testing"), or test the system as a whole, end-to-end ("integration testing"). Maybe a mix of both, depending on the context. In the case of pressure-testing the bathroom plumbing, I've done the
Hello! And happy December. It feels good to be back in the homeland. While stateside I made it to the Shenandoah Valley, and it turns out the song was right, the Blue Ridge Mountains really do look blue! I only got back yesterday, and continued with chiselling concrete today. It’
Hello! Happy Sunday, happy boat-less week. Still in the USA, I’ve been on the road for work, now visiting some family in the capital. The bathroom plumbing will be fun to get back to, and until then, here’re some boats at sunset in front of the Washington Monument:
Hello! Boat updates…?! I have found myself in New York, and didn’t sufficiently have my shit together beforehand to get any boat work done this week. The forecast at home is cold and wet, so I’m not too mad, and it gives me a chance to get parts
Hello! It didn’t feel like a huge boat progress week, but on Saturday I was back in the tank, sealing the crannies and nooks before I can fill it. I wouldn’t call it aesthetic, but a generous dose and I hope function prevails. And it wouldn’t be
Hello, and happy November! The thought of building out the boat over winter didn’t excite me to start with, but there’s something wholesome about working when it’s dark, lit by lamps and nothing much happening outside in the cold. Speaking of, on Monday evening I re-did the
Slam it to the left… if you’re havin’ a good time? Mostly confident in my socket wiring last week, but I got a plug tester to be sure. The dopamine hit worked; there’s no substitute for the 2 green lights telling me “well done, you’re not an