In hindsight

Nick

Dec 29, 2024 — 2 min read

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 back at a few highlights from the archives, which I didn't do last year. This, with any luck and perseverance, will be the first and only "year in review." There will be no more years.

So!

Ready for the rebuild

Painting the hull inside, ready for insulation, after grinding away the old rust and paint.

Insulating!

Replacing the engine head gasket

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It took me weeks to fix the engine, after many fuck-ups.

The sinking

I didn't want to write it at the time, but this cracked me up.

Lighting up the bedroom

Wiring these, then turning them on, *omg*.

Happy New Year, and until next year, until next Sunday!

- Nick

Scaling down

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

"Not recommended for DIY"

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

Integration testing

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

Take me home, country roads

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’