Jul 31, 2018
Anchovies aren’t vegan :-(
—orc Tue Jul 31 22:54:20 2018
The other cats were upstairs, so Mavis came out and took over a dining room chair.
—orc Tue Jul 31 21:19:29 2018
Jul 28, 2018
It’s unpleasantly hot enough outside so that I end up making one pass a day at the torch; I prep a bunch of metal for brazing, then go out to my shop and work with the torch until I start to wilt from heat exhaustion, then come back inside to set up the next batch of things to braze on.
—orc Sat Jul 28 19:37:28 2018
Jul 27, 2018
Taking measurements for the fork crown stay on this little batch of racks.
—orc Fri Jul 27 21:08:43 2018
Jul 26, 2018
Ozy on the dining room table
—orc Thu Jul 26 22:42:51 2018
Jul 21, 2018
A IBM Thinkpad 701c, with the collapsing keyboard. A 486dx4 w/ 40mb of memory and a 20gb disk, running Mastodon (Linux 2.0) w/o the X Windows Disaster but just a bunch of virtual ttys like G-d Intended.
At least it would be running if the CMOS battery hadn’t have died about 10 years ago, and if there wasn’t an intermittent error somewhere near the top of memory. As it is I’m now copying the disk to my macboox so I can fire up the system in a virtual machine and see if I can find the disk geometry (so I can coax the thing into booting after I’ve ripped out the dead cmos battery and replaced it with one that actually has some charge to it.)
—orc Sat Jul 21 23:19:56 2018
I wonder what Thor wants?
—orc Sat Jul 21 20:59:34 2018
Ozymandias takes over the arm of the loveseat
—orc Sat Jul 21 20:02:52 2018
Jul 20, 2018
Dust Mite helps me sort out the mess in the meaningless room.
—orc Fri Jul 20 20:44:30 2018
Jul 19, 2018
Three rack platforms brazed up (modulo the central crossbraces) and now sitting in the bathtub to soak off the excess flux. All of them are for Elephant NFE’s, so all the setup I need to do is configure one jig for brazing on the fork leg & fork crown stays (and then cut the stays, plus light mounts, plus crossbraces.)
—orc Thu Jul 19 19:34:24 2018
Jul 18, 2018
With an uncharacteristicly intelligent look on her (obcat:little furry) face
—orc Wed Jul 18 19:14:05 2018
Jul 17, 2018
He didn’t approve of my going out for dinner, and decided to stick close when I got back home.
—orc Tue Jul 17 21:55:03 2018
Jul 15, 2018
Off with the Schwalbe Ones & fenders, on with a new set of Confreries. I’ll get some aluminum fenders in the fall.
—orc Sun Jul 15 00:33:45 2018
Jul 14, 2018
It’s the perfect pairing; tools for rebuilding a bicycle hub and chemicals to flay the skin off your feet.
—orc Sat Jul 14 09:06:14 2018
Jul 13, 2018
A hub that needs axle ends, a stem that needs bolt repairs, and the same old Dust Mite (that does not need any repair.)
—orc Fri Jul 13 22:04:22 2018
Jul 12, 2018
Three racks for Elephant NFEs – an 10x8" blasdel-style perimeter (& the central rail loop thingie), a 12x10.5" porteur-style rectangular one, and an 11x10.5 oh-drat-I-mismeasured-the-width one. And this means that I can finally use the NFE fork jig I fabricated out of a broken NFE v1 fork last fall.
—orc Thu Jul 12 18:20:37 2018
Jul 11, 2018
When I went over to Trader Joe’s today, I returned – as is traditional – via a roundabout loop through the highlands of SE Portland, taking in as many of the unimproved roads as I could in the process of the trip. Alas, this did not end up working well for the emergency randonneuse’s remaining tubeless tire – some of the sections of unimproved road were really unimproved, which made the rear tire start to burp, and it didn’t take too much of that before the tire seal just gave up the ghost and fell into a long slow deflation (slow enough so I could ride it, notice when it was getting low, then pump in some air to bring it back up to a reasonable pressure, but not so slow I could make it home w/o having to refill the tire twice.!)
So since it’s summertime I think I’m going to yank off the fenders and put in a pair of Flat Magnets (Pacenti Pari-Motos) and see how they work on this machine. (It’s designed for Hutchinson Confréries, so going from 33mm to 38mm should not be a problem for anything other than brake bridge fender clearance.) Pity it’s not possible to get pink 45mm Planet Bike fenders any more, but as a substitution maybe I can fit a set of V-O Zeppelins into the frame?
—orc Wed Jul 11 22:36:40 2018
Jul 10, 2018
Olive, artichoke, & broccoli on a tomato base.
—orc Tue Jul 10 21:55:13 2018
Jul 09, 2018
Ozy does the morning check-in
—orc Mon Jul 9 15:59:07 2018
Jul 07, 2018
While waiting for randonneurs to arrive at a secret control for my Portland-Ripplebrook-Portland permanent.
—orc Sat Jul 7 18:53:14 2018
Jul 06, 2018
Time to do some laundry
—orc Fri Jul 6 21:53:47 2018
The nose of a southbound train is framed by a stained glass pillar & a bench.
—orc Fri Jul 6 17:37:52 2018
Jul 04, 2018
A Milburn 27L from 1920 (serial #2-1818-7) that lives in East Portland. Not an extraordinarily fast EV, but well suited to the metalled roads of that era.
—orc Wed Jul 4 17:08:21 2018
Jul 03, 2018
Ozy’s fur keeps on growing out. He’s starting to regrow the mane he used to have (one of the pictures from the Utah humane society that first had him showed a fairly magnificent mane, all of which got lopped off when they did an aggressive lion cut to deal with his tangled and grubby fur.
He’s huger now, some because he spent the last month and change inhaling all the catfood we would put out, but mainly because of excessive fur.
—orc Tue Jul 3 22:24:22 2018
Sandals, because (a) my toes have been getting blistered and infected (yuk!) on longer rides, so if something toeless can stop it so much the better, and (b) whythehellnot™ – sandals will better show off some of my more spectacularly femme socks, and if getting old is worth anything it’s worth giving even less of a fuck about what fragile masculinity thinks of me.
—orc Tue Jul 3 22:07:47 2018
Jul 02, 2018
The Ross Island bridge looms much more menacingly now that it’s painted dark blue instead of battleship grey.
—orc Mon Jul 2 20:25:03 2018
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