January Through March 2023

New year new everything! Well that’s the thought, right? Progress has been a little slower than I’d like on the new house, but I feel very comfortable here and have really been liking the small town I now call home. People are polite, charming, quirky, and at least outwardly happy in the sense that I…

I’m enjoying my new house, thought it’s definitely a good deal of work. In November, I had a bit of an issue with being slowly poisoned by my furnace, but thankfully that’s resolved and I’m breathing clean air again! I’m looking forward to a real winter out here in the Pennsylvania Wilds, and am continuing…

Right now I’m focused on: Putting together a collection website for the Ration Museum Scanning and sharing my grandparents’ slides with the family Building out this website Deciding what to do next in life! Finding a replacement car: <- So She Goes

Right now I’m focused on: Reading:

Got my car back on the road after a short (long) stint as the world’s largest saab shaped paperweight. I had to cut a chunk out of the body under the rear seat to expose the fuel pump access, then pull and rebuild the fuel pump assembly. Been running just fine since then thankfully. I…

Well the grind came to a sort of conclusion, in that my portion of the project was fully fired up and put into production mode. Dozens of moving parts, cumbersome manual mapping, a mountain of documentation – and it’s all just doing its thing now. It’ll come back up many times, and hopefully it will…