Apr 09, 2021
Dust Mite-sized sweets
—orc Fri Apr 9 20:46:40 2021
Apr 07, 2021
Thor just happened to be sitting on the arm of the sofa right next to where Mavis was napping. Purely a coincidence! Not that Thor wants to pester her very best friend of the day or anything.
—orc Wed Apr 7 20:42:52 2021
Apr 05, 2021
It took three attempts, but I finally got a scan of this slide that wasn’t covered in cat hair.
(579 & a F9 in North La Crosse, the year before I got into trains and started spending much of my spare time on the north side)
—orc Mon Apr 5 21:12:55 2021
Apr 04, 2021
Once one side is unclipped, things get a touch easier - work gradually around the perimeter gently levering with the spudger until the base eventually pops off with a sound like a warranty vaporising.
One of the steps of an ifixit guide to replacing the hard drive in an Airport Time Capsule.
—orc Sun Apr 4 22:30:22 2021
Apr 02, 2021
Great A, little a, this is new electric kettle day!
—orc Fri Apr 2 21:16:33 2021
Apr 01, 2021
Agnes Avenue, in Oregon City, is closed to automobile traffic, but the roadway is still there and I can use it to bridge between Main St & Washington St without having to loop through downtown Oregon City, then ride along 213 to cross i205 (which sucks dead bunnies through a straw; there’s a cycle lane along 213, but people whip through the interchange with i205 as if it was a race track.)
—orc Thu Apr 1 20:58:42 2021
Mar 30, 2021
I laced up a new rear wheel for the disco travel bike, so had to take it out for a test ride ASAP. 28h instead of my traditional 32h or 36h, and the rim matches the front rim (not accidentially; the front wheel is a SON SL'ed one, and I had a spare that I could disassemble to get a matching (OEM) rim + black spokes that were – happily! – the length I needed to lace up the new hub) so the machine drifts a little closer to being matchy-matchy.
—orc Tue Mar 30 19:54:07 2021
Mar 27, 2021
A pair of S70’s on a northbound train at the north end of the Johnson Creek Blvd viaduct, photographed from the i205 path under the north end of the aforementioned viaduct.
—orc Sat Mar 27 18:22:54 2021
Mar 26, 2021
One of the patches on my rear inner tube gave way when I was on the return leg of a short 25 mile loop, so I had to take a rest stop on the Springwater Trail to disassemble the rear end of the bicycle, hunt down the leak, reinflate the tire, and then take this picture before finishing the ride home.
—orc Fri Mar 26 17:06:04 2021
Mar 22, 2021
She’s helping keep the macbook from going into hibernation while I was away from the console. Helpful! (modulo the cat fur which will inevitably work its way into the air ducts and start clogging up the processor fan)
—orc Mon Mar 22 18:47:31 2021
Mar 19, 2021
Dust Mite was lurking in the bedclothes tonight. Perhaps they were looking for a friend?
—orc Fri Mar 19 23:49:38 2021
Mar 18, 2021
578 sits in the now-vanished Wabasha yard
—orc Thu Mar 18 16:54:07 2021
Mar 17, 2021
My acetylene tank ran empty today just as I was starting to glue together a couple of racks, so out to Airgas went I to swap it for one that actually contains acetylene.
—orc Wed Mar 17 23:25:52 2021
Mar 13, 2021
A P&W freight zips past me at the Stark St crossing in SE Portland. This is a capture from a short film that I accidentially took when I toggled the iphone from camera to movie mode, so it’s lower resolution and maybe a bit sharper than it would have been as an actual photo?
—orc Sat Mar 13 19:28:29 2021
Mar 12, 2021
Dust Mite soup is much more nutritious than stone soup.
—orc Fri Mar 12 20:42:56 2021
Mar 06, 2021
I’m not going to look for a train at this particular sign
—orc Sat Mar 6 21:33:16 2021
Mar 05, 2021
I went to the hardware store to pick up some spray paint and I could not resist.
—orc Fri Mar 5 23:17:06 2021
An Indiana Railroad motor hauls a short coal train somewhere in Indiana. Post WW2, maybe? It’s an eBay photo, so there is very little information about it (and there’s pitifully little indexed information about the freight remnants of the IRR on the web, so that’s no help) but the bus sailing jauntily on by makes me assume it’s after the last passenger trains ran.
—orc Fri Mar 5 13:45:27 2021
Mar 04, 2021
Looks can be deceptive, because there are a lot of canned & jarred goods in this stack of grocery bags. Maybe 100 pounds? The bicycle certainly handled like it was pulling that much weight.
—orc Thu Mar 4 23:40:53 2021
Mar 03, 2021
Stopping at the summit of Mount Tabor to see (and photograph) the new statue commemorating York, which was placed up there fairly recently to replace the Harvey Scott statue that was demolished last year.
—orc Wed Mar 3 22:37:20 2021
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