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I'm now starting to understand why it took my dad 15 years to build an airplane in the garage. But by the end of it, he knew how to do literally fucking everything.

Yeah, it's fucking annoying how one project leads you into learning 7 new skills and you can never get to what you actually intended to do.

It's been an interesting dive into stuff. I'd just drop it off to be sharpened, but it's a rip chain which is really unusual in the cities, and I don't want them to fuck it up. Because it's a rip chain, it's not available at any retail outlets here, so I have to order it online. I'd normally...

Today I found out I can't sharpen a chainsaw for shit. Tomorrow, I get to start over.

My insurance guy tried to get me to set one up a couple years ago, but I was still recovering from the divorce and didn't have enough liquid to open the account comfortably. I can divert to 40% US stocks today, and cut the bond shit to near nothing, so I'll do that for now, and re-explore the...

No 401k. Defined benefit pension, so that's taken care of. IRA isn't a poor idea anyway though, as that's what I was going to do anyway until this came along and seemed like less work. i'll see what they have if they can turn everything to IVV, because a good chunk of it is already in that.

Eh, puts my money into 30% US stocks, 21% Int'l stocks, 9% bonds, 4% int'l bonds, and then it has some cash buffer (fucking lol at the 1% earnings being a "buffer") As i said, I don't know shit all about investing, and I don't have the time to watch the market like you guys do. If I did, I get...

Alright, so I know fuck goddamned all about investing. Shit reads like greek to me, and I have almost no time to learn it. Too busy during the day, can't be babysitting the stonks, so best course of action seemed to be to divert a little bit of cash into some endeavor. 6-8 months ago, Ally...

Meh, some women are just like that. Pretty sure I'm with one myself too. We don't talk about anything like the ex and I did. The ex and I at least talked about shit, even if we disagreed. We always knew where we stood on shit. This one, not so much. However, since I'm done with the thought...

Don't give that cocksucker money. For the price of that shit, you can buy a 3d printer.

So far so good, just a bit slow going. Gotta let the bar cool off in between cuts, and now it's time to take a crash course in chain sharpening. But, the results have been nothing shy of spectacular. All that stuff standing up is the first cut off the top of the log, or the leftovers of the...

I'm not gonna say amazing, because my domino's always manages to fuck up our order, but I guess for the cost of 2 drives up there, 3 pizzas for the price of 2 ain't terrible.

I was thinking about this today as I was milling logs 3 and 4....underneath where the tree was standing, everything started growing again. Grass, weeds, all that kinda shit. I have a lot of spots in my backyard where plants are undesirable. I wonder if I can use all the sawdust as some kind of...

Also toxic to a lot of crops too, like it was killing my tomatos, which is how we got to this point in the first place!

My only regret is that it creates sawdust instead of chips we can put in the smoker.

Fyi, walnut sawdust smells amazing. There are worse fates in life.

I might sell some of it, but probably gonna keep most. I have a few pretty big pieces that might work as live edge tabletops I could probably finance this whole project with.

I take no credit for the design, Izzy Swan sells the plans at his site, stumbled upon his channel while I was looking for a solution to my problem. The logs I have are EASILY 500lbs. They're fucking huge. I have no way to lift those fuckers up to a comfortable working height with a normal...

First cut on the walnut.

Yeah. Phone compresses quite a bit, maybe I'll throw it up on YouTube. I'm thinking the problem is the size of the piece. That birch is only about a foot long and 14 inches wide, the saw moves it quite a bit. I have some 2-3 foot bigger logs of walnut in the backyard I'm gonna throw on there...

Milling shit is harder than you'd expect. It turns out chainsaws have a lot of springs in the handle. Makes sense, as those would absorb the vibrations of using the thing for it's intended purpose. Unfortunately, this makes it really fucking hard to perfectly position one. More tinkering...

It's a good thing I've got a whole tree to work out the kinks!

A lot of this has already been covered, but, been there, done that. My youngest was born when I was about your age, and it was about that time that I decided I don't have time for mmos anymore. I still play video games from time to time, but it's mostly winter and when it's 9:30 and I've got a...

Yeah, it is pretty funny and kinda embarrassing. He had a full size craftsman table saw (which he tried to give me about 12 years ago, but I had nowhere to put it...missed opportunities), stand up (not tabletop) drill press and band saw, a lathe, a jointer, probably a bunch of shit I don't...

A circular saw was the one thing I never used growing up. My dad had an amazing workshop with literally everything known to man, but he never let me touch the circular saw. It's kinda colored my opinion to this day. I should probably buy one, but since I have so much less comfort with that than...

I have a small Ryobi table saw (I suppose jobsite might be how you describe it, but no wheels, "permanent" legs). Honestly, the thing is better than I give it credit for. The miter gauge sucks, but they all do, so I just built a sled to replace it. And then I built an extra fence that I can bolt...

Honestly, it's been pretty playable for quite awhile. I put several hundred hours into Guild master mode while it was in EA and it was functional, for the most part. The biggest thing was them getting multiplayer ironed out, and after that, it's actually been pretty smooth. There's a few bugs...

The board game community is the worst bunch of snowflakes in the world right now. It's absolute peak tranny cuckery and it's intolerable on almost every level. If I didn't have a group of shitlords I've been gaming with for 20 years, I would probably just go back to beating my family's ass in...

Freschetta is okay, but their brick oven crust (hard to find these days) is God tier.

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There a place to get them with reliable certainty of quality? Let's just say Amazon sending me a counterfeit Safariland holster rig has me about done with that place. Then I thought ebay, but then you're wondering how they were stored before they got to you.

Fucking lol, expertise. Vets are complete sellout dipshits. You know how many vets have told me I shouldn't feed my dog raw meat? Why, doc? Because the wolf has figured out how to cook all his meals? Go fuck yourself.

Not my call. HR is unfortunately on the page of "everyone deserves a chance to succeed." So we give them right up until the wire and shitcan them.

No, he's still, inexplicably, employed here, because HR won't fire him. Thankfully, we have a 60 day probationary period, so on day 59 he goes regardless, but its pretty impressive the amount of people we give chances to.

Even better than that...this game was 100% playable throughout the *entirety* of early access. It was actually pretty fucking incredible to see. The devs are pretty great, and managed to deliver a playable product for almost 2 years, while working on it. They implemented the NG+ mode pretty...

My dinner date fell thru at the last moment and I didn't have anything thawed. I also am out of frozen pizzas, so I'd be down to cans of soup or other unsuitable dinners for a Friday night. Thought briefly about going out to grab something, and then thought about the price of it, and went...

Mine should be here by the end of the month. I'm printing the minis as we speak.

That Steve1989 dude eats 60 year old sugar out of MRE's all the time. And oddly enough, my sister just this weekend started putting sugar on her dog's open wounds for just that reason. She had been doing honey before, but the dog licked it off all the time.

This is the reason he's not concerned about water. Minnesota ain't exactly known for a lack of it. This is the view off my deck, and I don't live in the country.