Workshop Development #62: All is well, but keeping very busy...

I have had very little shop time since October, when I had my electrical run. In the time in between I have…

#1. Finished up the remodel of my laundry room. #2. Finished with the paint and electrical upgrades in the living room. #3. Assembled a cheapo computer armoire for the master bedroom. This is a temporary thing as I am presently working on …

#1. Purging the YEARS of junk accumulated in my home office. I literally had stacks of boxes filled with various documentation, taxes and finances going back to 1986. I spent lots of quality time with my scanner, and paper shreadder getting rid of most of the stuff older than 8 years old. (some stuff like mortgage of course i kept…). #2. Rebuilding my home computer network. I am building a private cloud infrastructure at home. I have just last night finished up building the SAN (Storage Area Network). I need to set up mount boards for patch panels and switches as I am not at a point where I can do a structured wiring project complete with enclosure at this point. #3. Haven’t begun putting it together, but I have the hardware to start assembling a 4 node HPC cluster for virtualization.

Back in the shop I have been…

#1. Cleaning out the old toolboxes of years of accumulated junk. Finding proper spaces for everything that can have a proper space, if it doesn’t belong, it goes either to be recycled, donated, or to the dumpster… My mechanics toolbox hasn’t been this organized since I actually WAS a professional mechanic. #3. Building, and having an utter measurement failure on a custom fit behind the front bumper winch mount for my truck. #4. Replacing the alternator in my Saturn. #5. attempting to put up full sheets of fire rated sheetrock, solo… Not happening. I need HELP!

So you see it hasn’t been that I haven’t been busy, I have been too busy is the problem…

Good Lord willing, and some helpful volunteers able, I will have my truck back road worthy in January (I need to replace ball joints, and coilovers in the front end, going with a Rancho 2.5” lift at the same time. The 6” is WAY too expensive, and more than I need.

My biggest concern really is the sheet rock. Once that gets put up, I start putting my shop back together, starting with the clamshell cabinets. I will be spacing them so that the ends are exactly 8’ apart, and will then put the cabs such that there is an 8’ x 18” deep shelf on top of them.

Like I mentioned, I need help. Anyone in the Houston metro area willing to give me a hand?

-- Manufacturer of fine quality sawdust since 1984. Comments and advice on my shop welcome. Check it out at http://lumberjocks.com/dbhost/workshop. Gladly accepting shop build donations!