Feb 23, 2019
Feb 22, 2019
We went down to the Mill End Store today and picked up a couple of upholstery remnants so I can start reupholstering the dining room chairs. Dust Mite approves because it will give a nice new home for their friends and relations (the upholstery on the chairs right now is all disintegrating, so there’s no place for a dust mite to live except in the foam padding material.)
—orc Fri Feb 22 23:32:06 2019
A short EPT passenger train sits on the McBrod Ave lead late this morning as I went by on the way back from the Mill End Store.
—orc Fri Feb 22 17:22:29 2019
Feb 21, 2019
At the narrow gauge trestle/tree sculpture at the foot of River Road & 99e
—orc Thu Feb 21 18:05:00 2019
Feb 20, 2019
Sketching out a paint scheme for my (partially completed; the front triangle is sitting in a jig in my bike mess waiting for me to fit the bottle bosses & wiring ports) lightweight traditional randonneuse-to-be (“traditional”, here, means 73/73 HTA/STA, a more-level TT, and maybe centerpull brakes; it’s going to be a fly-by-wire machine, which isn’t exactly what I’d call traditional if I was using the conventional definitions.)
—orc Wed Feb 20 11:33:13 2019
Feb 17, 2019
Taking the 3-speed (+ the bob yak) up to Trader Joe’s (for a change).
—orc Sun Feb 17 17:10:32 2019
Feb 15, 2019
Relaxing with a drink on Friday night
—orc Fri Feb 15 23:07:57 2019
Feb 12, 2019
Sewer goo, seltzer water, goldfish, and miscellaneous stuff from both the hardware store and QFC
—orc Tue Feb 12 19:35:48 2019
Feb 10, 2019
Our little garbage rat sits on the plate rail
—orc Sun Feb 10 21:10:29 2019
Feb 08, 2019
Setting up the mountainhack for winter weather with my Nokian A-10 studded tires and a pair of nü-Blumel fenders in red & black.
—orc Fri Feb 8 23:53:51 2019
Time to put the studded tires (and different fenders) on the mountainhack, but if ‘17 is any indication it’s not going to be enough. At least I topped off the heating oil so we’ve got enough to keep the house warm (unless there’s a power failure) until the snow eventually melts.
—orc Fri Feb 8 16:55:39 2019
(not actually a fatbike because that is reserved for 3"+ wide tires. “27.5+” is what they call this sort of clearance, which is kind of silly but eh, I’ll use it.)
Note the clipping at the top of the photo. That’s because my iPhone doesn’t have a waist-level finder and when the camera is this low I’m staring down at the screen at such an angle so it’s difficult to get things centered on the electronic-equivalent-of-film.
—orc Fri Feb 8 15:40:32 2019
Feb 07, 2019
Not officially rando junk, ‘cause I wasn’t out breveting around, but close enough: a 10mm double-ended Husky wrench, which fills the one size of bicycle-appropriate wrenches I didn’t seem to have in my bike mess.
—orc Thu Feb 7 21:39:44 2019
Thor tries out my historical reenactment porteur/rando bag
—orc Thu Feb 7 15:56:07 2019
Feb 04, 2019
A little bit of snow finally stuck, just in time for it to get sunny and cold for a day or so. If there’s enough heat in the ground to make this coat of snow melty before it gets too late in the night there’s gonna be a lovely layer of black ice over everything tomorrow morning.
—orc Mon Feb 4 22:40:53 2019
Yesterday’s pile of packages loaded up and ready to go to the post office. It’s snowing, not that you can tell, and pretty cold for Portland so it’s possible the snow will stick if it keeps snowing into the evening.
—orc Mon Feb 4 15:32:41 2019
Feb 03, 2019
A stack of bicycle parts (a couple of forks, a couple of racks, a hub, and a (diassembled) 11-speed DT Swiss driver body) ready to be tossed into a bike trailer and transported to the Post Office tomorrow morning.
—orc Sun Feb 3 17:06:15 2019
Feb 02, 2019
Mocking up the rear triangle of the non-Trek before taking a bucketload of measurements off the Free Radical backend and cobbling together a jig (and cutting some dropouts out of ⅛“ steel sheet) so I can glue it all together.
—orc Sat Feb 2 22:24:38 2019
Feb 01, 2019
Ozymandias helps me use the computer
—orc Fri Feb 1 23:14:14 2019
This week we’re building racks & forks
—orc Fri Feb 1 23:10:58 2019
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