What did YOU do today?

[Roert42]

Thats what I've been doing, all the stuff that needs going through gets sorted and goes to it's home, I've gotten most of the house stuff roughly where it's gonna live, only a couple boxes left. I've moved from a mobile home with no other storage than a small bedroom and smallish enclosed porch to a house with a full basement, decent sized garage, and a breezeway. All of my tools and such were just kind of everywhere so that's been the bulk of the sorting out. Today was a bit warmer so I did some sorting in the garage as well, now that all of that can be in one place (no more mig welder in the living room, etc, haha)

I did the exact same thing. Moved from 6/700 square/ft mobile home. With most of my stuff packed floor to ceiling in an 8x8 room.

Now I have a 2 car detached garage with walk up loft, and somehow it’s still full of crap.

You don’t get more space, you just get more junk.

 

[19Walt93]

It was a long week. After being sick for a week I plowed about 3" of snow Wednesday morning, my wife and & I finally tested negative for covid on Thursday morning, and I plowed another 6" of snow yesterday. This morning it was -10 at 7:00 and they're predicting snow for tonight. I'll still complain about the black flies once it warms up.

 

[racsan]

watching the movie-that movie- it is that day.

 

[holyford86]

I did the exact same thing. Moved from 6/700 square/ft mobile home. With most of my stuff packed floor to ceiling in an 8x8 room.

Now I have a 2 car detached garage with walk up loft, and somehow it’s still full of crap.

You don’t get more space, you just get more junk.

I purged a bunch, and am in the process of purging a couple projects I'll never get to. It's been too cold to make much progress with the garage things, so here's to hoping I have usable space in the garage when I'm done, haha. I'm trying to avoid filling my basement with automotive related crap to make myself be a little bit more selective of what to keep.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I purged a bunch, and am in the process of purging a couple projects I'll never get to. It's been too cold to make much progress with the garage things, so here's to hoping I have usable space in the garage when I'm done, haha. I'm trying to avoid filling my basement with automotive related crap to make myself be a little bit more selective of what to keep.

I’ll gladly haul off whatever I can use that you want rid of when I come up there this year

 

[scotts90ranger]

The consumables for the Thermal Dynamics plasma cutter I got a while ago showed up and it worked great! So I'm just under $100 in a name brand plasma cutter!

Other than that I finished wiring up the lights for the two rooms in my shop so I'll be able to see what I'm doing while doing the wiring. Next step is to drill holes through the blocking at the posts so it's less annoying to run wires to the loft then push the two runs over there to the two breakers I put in yesterday... also think I found the air plumbing kit I'm going to use for the shop, probably get a 100' and 200' kit instead of a 300' kit since it only adds like $15 and you get more parts... 200' should be about enough but would rather have extra...

 

[holyford86]

I’ll gladly haul off whatever I can use that you want rid of when I come up there this year

I can't guarantee what it'll be, but it'll be something, haha.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I can't guarantee what it'll be, but it'll be something, haha.

As long as the working 2.9 is there, lol. Anything else is a bonus. I’m also intending to get 4x4 back in the Choptop so I can haul it up there and we can hit some trails

 

[holyford86]

As long as the working 2.9 is there, lol. Anything else is a bonus. I’m also intending to get 4x4 back in the Choptop so I can haul it up there and we can hit some trails

I just dragged that b2 out of the back yard, threw the cluster back in it and drove it to the store, should be good to go.

 

[Rick W]

Friday and yesterday I made six calls to Medicare and my Medicare drug supplier. The drug supplier has been sending my mail to the wrong address for over a year. Well, I owed them $38.40, and after four years they canceled me. They canceled me on 29 December, and I got the letter January 2. the enrollment period ended December 31.

So back to the calls, the six calls totaled just over 11 1/2 hours. I’m guessing it was 60/40 waiting time vs actually talking to somebody. On the talking part, where I actually talked to somebody, I knew from the first time I had to go above the person who answered the phone, but you’re not allowed to do that until you run through the 20 questions. When it came time to go to the person above them, three times out of four the phone went dead before it connected to the other person.

Inspired by history, I have every confidence that this process will yield the desired result:

After inventing the lightbulb, Thomas Edison: “I will not say I failed 1,000 times, I will say that I found 1,000 ways that won't work.”

I’ll start calling again in an hour or so, but I’m also calling the state ombudsman, and the insurance commissioner, both of whom I know casually.

If I’m not getting anywhere, this time tomorrow, I’m calling my congressman and my senator. I only know one of them, but I know how to make that call. I just hate to use the heavy guns on something so silly, because those guys always want payback later.

Maybe I should call some of the laborers who used to work for me to see where I can buy some drugs to survive the process of trying to buy drugs

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Yesterday I worked on doing some organizing and cleaning in my “shop” (the great outdoors y’all, don’t get excited, lol). I’m not sure now when it happened, but I had some help awhile back to pull a bunch of stuff out of my tarp shed thing and bring a shelving unit to it. Bunch of stuff that needed sorted and put back was piled up outside the shed and a tarp thrown over it. Add in some snow, rain, ice, and cold weather and that tarp has been frozen to the ground for awhile so nothing happened. Well, yesterday it got over 50* so I got the tarp off the stuff, got the shelving thing in the back of the shed and got everything put back in. It’s not fully organized, I need to pull some more stuff out of there and get it to other places, I need some more shelving and I really want a steel workbench to put in there to make a mini shop.

My little tarp shed is only like 8’x8’, so really tiny. But having it organized and a workbench in there should help a lot with keeping my stuff organized while I’m working on things. I really need a proper workspace but this should do for now. Being honest with myself, it’s gonna be awhile before I have a garage. I’m going to work towards trying to get my garage up on my property, hopefully that can happen this year or next. This tarp shed has just been a heap of stuff shoved in it for years. Once my garage goes up, the tarp shed will likely go away, so I might as well make it useful to me and get it cleaned up so it’s easier to transfer to the garage when the time comes.

 

[sgtsandman]

I installed a new dead bolt and locking knob on the garage man door, installed another surveillance camera, checked the SWR on a couple frequencies the SAR group I belong to is thinking about using that is outside the normal HAM bands, installed a new kitchen faucet, and found a home for all the new tools I bought. I still need to hang the chain hoist but that requires moving the trailer out of the garage and I ran out of ambition. So, that may be a tomorrow project.

 

[Brain75]

you did all that in one day?

 

[sgtsandman]

you did all that in one day?

Yep

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]