Preparing the Compressor Room - Part 3

 "Wealth is the slave of a wise man.  The master of a fool." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Preparing the Compressor Room - Part 2

 "Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years.  Death hangs over you.  While you live, while it is in your power, be good" - Marcus Aurelius

Preparing the Compressor Room - Part 1

 "Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view." - Marcus Aurelius

Shop Bathroom Water Heater

 "Confine yourself to the present" - Marcus Aurelius

A couple of Ridgid tools

 "The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.  The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are." - Marcus Aurelius

 

Yet another power outage...

 "There is a time and place for diversion and amusements, but you should never allow them to override your true purpose." - Epictetus

Below:  A Ponderosa pine tree fell across a street in Coeur d'Alene, ID as a result of the wind storm on January 13, 2021

Finishing up the winter prep

 "Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage.  It is time now to realize the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it.  Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again." - Marcus Aurelius

Woke up much too early today - noon - and was unable to get back to sleep.  Decided to get up and try to get something done.

Electrician-ing

 I am considering starting each blog post with a quote from a famous Stoic, thanks to the handy app I recently discovered.  Starting right now.

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts:  Therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature." - Marcus Aurelius.

 In the previous looooong post, I mentioned at some point that I intended to install a digital timer on the fart fan in the shop bathroom.  The digital timer arrived in the mail today, and I woke up quite a bit earlier than needed for night shift - so I got busy at my other job. 

 

A bunch of random stuff

I had a busy set of days off.  I somehow managed to get a lot done, considering that one day was lost to church, and another to overtime.  The overtime is a good thing, because I had to spend a lot of money this past week.

I was forced to purchase a new phone last week.  I'm *not* fond of replacing stuff - especially stuff that I've gotten used to, but there wasn't much choice in this case.  The power button on the phone had mashed all the way in, and it wasn't waking up any more.  I had to plug it in to wake it up and then enter the password to use it.  Not good.

So I transferred all the files off the six year old Droid Turbo, and then it got wiped.

Garage lighting issue

Something has been irritating me for quite a while now, and I finally decided how I'm going to fix it.

Finishing the shop bathroom - Updated and Completed

This will be a long post.  It's been a long project.  I've got five days invested and have a couple more remaining.  Also, I took a lot of photos.

I had some material left over from a previous drywall DIY project (linked).  I decided to tackle another project out in the shop using the remaining materials.  I ended up using all the leftover stuff, and had to buy a great deal more material to complete this project, so that logic was a bit flawed...

Refrigerator Ice Maker woes...

The ice maker in our 14 year old Sears Kenmore side-by-side quit working recently.

Drywall and finish work

I finished painting and trimming the utility room.

Drywall :(

I've been doing a bit of drywall the past couple of days.

Minor home improvement stuff

I've had a couple of minor projects in mind recently, but there was always something else more pressing. 

Homemade Landmine

No, I'm not talking about military stuff or IEDs.  This landmine is actually useful!

Prepping...

 

Cleaning up the property

I had five or six red fir trees die over this past winter.  They never fell over, so a couple of weeks ago, I and some friends felled them.  That left me to do the clean-up.

Heating the house

I want to talk a bit about home heating.  I'm not an expert, but I've done a little research into it, and thought it would be good to share what I've learned.  I have a similar post about home cooling here.

Overhauling the cat tree

A couple of years ago, we were about to have guests over, and I realized how awful the cat tree looked.  We quickly purchased a second cat tree, and vowed to replace the carpet and rope on the previous one at some point.