Making door panels for a VW Type 3 Squareback.

I bought a 1980 300TD (non turbo) a few weeks ago (my first Benz) and I'm trying to sort some things out. Here's the vin plate, if you'd like to decode it.

I always finish my projects like this by going out and taking some glamor shots.

I received this RMI Electra 300a, a really cool electronic piano from the early 1970's. Now it's time to restore it!

I've been using this service manual to tune up and repair my Electra 200, however it is actually for an Electra 368 piano. It's not easy to find on the net so I thought I would upload it to my website and make sure this valuable resource isn't lost forever.

I finally get to ride the bike I've been working on (and off) on for nearly two years. How did it perform? Read more to find out!

I saved the best for last: doing all of the wiring! I also had to program the Kelly controller, and here is how I did it.

There is a LOT you can do. The delivery of your child is something that the two of you will do, together, as a family. If you are able to do your part during the delivery, then your partner will love you more than ever because of it.

With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the US is poised to be the world leader in fighting climate change.

It's been almost a year since I worked on this project. Time to bring it back!

It was time to make the interior look as good as the exterior!

After framing the addition to my garage, I had to install the doors, windows, siding, trim, and hardware. Sounds easy but it was a ton of work.

Etymology, sexology, and mycology are brought together in this highly imaginative study of ancient words and their obscured origins. Is there is a hidden connection between the ancient fertility and drug cults of the early bronze age and the origins of Christianity? Is the link codified in the Bible? Is Jesus an allegory for a hypnotic mushroom that mysteriously grows out of the womb of the earth without fertilization, like a virgin, emerging only after receiving life-giving rains from a giant penis in the sky? Is the mushroom the true son of God?

As we were hiking in the Indian Peaks range of the Colorado mountain last week, we walked right past dozens of these toadstool mushrooms, with only a faint clue of what they were.

Unbeknownst to us, we were hiking among living deities! The nectar of the gods! THE IMMORTAL MUSHROOM-SACRAMENT OF ANTIQUITY! (Writing about mushrooms is awesome because you get to use fun words like hypnotic, sacrament, mushroom-cult, ecstasy, deity, comatose, etc.)

Now that the foundation is done, the hard part is behind me and the walls are going up quickly!

As 2020 was coming to a close and 2021 was just around the corner, I was finishing development of a new version of our skill for the Alexa smart speaker. It was a total re-write, and it changed the skill from being able to perform only a single intent (play our live stream) to providing a dialog-based menu of many intents to choose from. With the new skill, listeners can choose to either play our live stream, play our HD2 live stream, play the latest newscast recording, or play an on-demand. (One day I would like to add another intent: make a donation.)

Making motorcycle parts!

I'm doing everything from the footers to the roof shingles, from designing the plans to raising the walls.

It's never really finished, right? But it's close enough! Here's some glamour shots of it around Portland OR.