Apr 30, 2020
43 bagels from Henry Higgins
—orc Thu Apr 30 21:20:27 2020
Apr 28, 2020
Running over to Trader Joe’s for bananas, soymilk, and clementines.
—orc Tue Apr 28 22:14:51 2020
I yeeted our downspouts, so the squirrels no longer have an easy route up into our attic. They are fairly unhappy about this, and spent a bunch of time this morning running from tree to treee in the backyard, trying to find an alternative way in.
—orc Tue Apr 28 09:07:02 2020
Apr 27, 2020
SWITCTBN is ready for her closeup
—orc Mon Apr 27 23:12:05 2020
Apr 24, 2020
A UP freight photobombs a picture of the public art on the Powell overpass.
—orc Fri Apr 24 23:34:28 2020
It takes some work,but Ozy & Dust Mite can curl up in the box together
—orc Fri Apr 24 14:05:19 2020
Apr 22, 2020
A half-height size huge Wald basket (the half-height part is a Rivendell variant – prototyped by a couple of people at Rivendell, put into production for Blue Lug, imported back into the USA (?) by Merry Sales, then sold to me by Rivendell) zip-tied to the GT’s rack, because now that we’re in the plague years I’ve gone back to grocery bags and a basket is a better way of holding them in instead of wrapping an elastic cord around the bags.
—orc Wed Apr 22 17:06:20 2020
Apr 20, 2020
A larger bag, but completely filled with bagels.
—orc Mon Apr 20 21:18:24 2020
Apr 19, 2020
A larger (9×8" instead of 6×4.5") mask made from bedsheet scraps and some pink cat&mouse satin I had lying around in my sewing mess.
It’s definitely a prototype; I managed to forget most of what I did when I made up the previous masks so there are a lot of bodges in this design. It still works, but it’s not as pretty as I’d like.
—orc Sun Apr 19 23:34:34 2020
Apr 17, 2020
Ozy & Dust Mite wedge themselves into Mavis’s cat box
—orc Fri Apr 17 21:58:37 2020
Apr 16, 2020
Dropping off a constructeur (== I built the entire bicycle up before handing it over) bicycle before turning around and going (eventually; it was a lovely day out today so I spent most of the rest of the afternoon idling around) over to Trader Joe’s to pick up some groceries.
—orc Thu Apr 16 21:04:55 2020
Apr 14, 2020
Down to the Big Big Store for bananas, mandarins, cereal, and a couple of cans of black beans. The porteur-width VO handlebars I put on this machine (as well as a shorter Mutant) mean I can fit two grocery bags side-by-side on the front rack and still have breathing room for my hands.
I’m going to put a size huge Wald basket (the half-height 1392 that Rivendell sells) onto this machine so I don’t need to immediately sew up a huge porteur bag to carry groceries in. And since we’re in the plague years, most of the stores I go to won’t let you use your own bags anyway so a Wald basket + grocery bags + some sort of tarp is just as good.
—orc Tue Apr 14 20:33:04 2020
Apr 13, 2020
Setting up a Rube Goldberg-style fixture to braze a pair of modular dropouts onto a frame I’m modifying. I can’t just bolt the dropout inserts in and start brazing, because the inserts are aluminum and I don’t want to warp or melt them, so …
—orc Mon Apr 13 21:10:08 2020
Apr 12, 2020
Another trip over to Henry Higgins for two dozen bagels.
—orc Sun Apr 12 16:11:30 2020
Apr 10, 2020
Apr 09, 2020
I tweaked the sweet fixie by replacing the brake cable housing with compressionless housing, the handlebars with another set of porteur-width Velo Orange rando bars, and the old slimy blue tape with new Cinelli “world champion” candycane tape. It’s much more flaming now even though the brake cable housing isn’t the old rainbow stuff.
—orc Thu Apr 9 23:52:10 2020
Apr 07, 2020
I went out to Henry Higgins this morning to pick up a couple of dozen bagels, but they tossed in an extra dozen, which loaded my historical reenactment porteur/rando bag to within an inch of its life. Time to fire up the sewing machine, I guess.
—orc Tue Apr 7 15:09:46 2020
Apr 04, 2020
A double recipe of red beans & rice, so we can have enough to put away for leftovers.
—orc Sat Apr 4 21:47:31 2020
Apr 03, 2020
A box large enough for two
—orc Fri Apr 3 22:52:01 2020
It may be the apocolypse, but we’ve still got to eat. (We have to poop as well, but toilet paper is one thing that is not available at the store. I may end up having to jury-rig a bidet so we can pressure wash our butts after doing the necessary.)
—orc Fri Apr 3 18:59:44 2020
Apr 02, 2020
I’m putting couplers (and through-axle dropouts, and disk mounts, and probably some other stuff) into a frame, and today I finally got around to cutting the downtube and dry-fitting the couplers into place.
If you look closely, you’ll see that the coupler halves are not completely level with each other; that’s because the frame warped when being brazed, and went I cut the downtube the two pieces sprung in different directions. So before I braze the coupler into place I’m going to put the DS into compression so that the halves will line up square with each other and with the frame. (And then I’m going to cut the seat tube for a ritchey-style breakaway joint, so any further unwarping will show up there. Oh well; I’ll burning that bridge when I get to it.)
—orc Thu Apr 2 23:13:58 2020
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