I have had more eye surgeries than I care to remember. So many, in fact, that it drove us to sell our beloved Beechcraft in 2017. As luck would have it, not a huge loss, since being in our 70s at that point, mixing up with lots of people from coast-to-coast – while remaining vax-free – didn’t seem like the smartest thing to do. So, this whole free invention, which I’m going to show you …
A minor health panic screwed up the week’s operational plans around here, taking Friday List Items off the table for another week. Still, some damn-fine adventures in the Home HandyBastard’s world of tool slut sales and grand designs for the future… Radio Det. Case of the RTFM I may have mentioned to you that the Radio Detective is a super-slut when comes to antique-ish ham radio gear made by the late Hallicrafters Company? The two-bit lowdown …
After a long winter to plan, dream, bid-snipe, and over-buy, we find ourselves in the middle of “crunch time” this week. What Happens in Crunch? This is the time of year when living in one of the in-city “coops” is actually a much better deal than trying to build a resilient backwoods enclave for yourself in retirement. All those winter plans have to get done. A quick walk through and some before and after views …
It’s a good time – with my 75th birthday now here – to review some of the projects, ideas, learnings, and what’s ahead in the spring. This is what both living in the woods, doing some backwoods hydroponics and solar power, plus writing and trying to be retired is all about. So, grab a cup of coffee and let’s do a walk-around, OK? Power Center Done – For Now Last week, we did the open …
When I published the first “Case #1 of The Electronic Detective” long before branching off the Ultra-Make site, the idea was – in our first episode, we will tackle a medium-complexity problem in electronics – there have been dozens of additional cases which might be of interest to an electronics aficionado. But unfortunately there is only so much time and so much energy to write up highly specialized learnings. But to be sure, a review …