Saturday, September 18, 2021

Lewisville update

 At Lewisville today, we received some of our missing can light housings and put them in so that the women’s bathroom and the entrance hall are now fully lit. All we have left are the men’s bathroom and the bathroom vestibule, at least as far as I can tell. I put up an odd type of sconce and put in the other key switch for the bathroom. It still only works to toggle the power on and off regardless of which way it is turned, but I didn’t see another way to do it and Big John apparently gave it his stamp of approval. I wished I could have talked to him about it, though. It was a lot of fun trying to figure out how to make the key switch work the way I thought it should, even though in the end I decided it was impossible.

My weekend started out lousy with most of my Saturday spent on Rimworld. In the evening I went to visit my cousin Greg to see his woodworking shop. The furniture he built was awe-inspiring, and he also cut my wood so that I could continue with my project (after almost six months). Sunday, I spent most of the day on that project, an end table. I learned a lot from working on the end table. First, I discovered that I had been using my random orbit sander in all the wrong ways.

Escapism

I'm tired of doing things that have no significance. I'm tired of the escapism that sits at my doorstep and bounds inside at the sli...