My Only Black Friday Purchase
Amazon Basics Trash Cans. $44 versus the regular price of $66. One for the shop and one for home. The shop is finally fully cleaned and organized. Next project is…
My Blank Canvas
Amazingly it took 8 weekends to clean and organize my little shop after downsizing from a 3-bedroom house to a 1-bedroom apartment. One more weekend is needed. Then I start…
Peter’s Gate
My Walk to Whole Food($) in Monterey To get in and out of my new residence in the hills of Monterey I must past through Peter's Gate. What that means,…
Three NIKKOR Z f/1.8 S-Line Prime Lenses
I decided last year not to buy any new camera gear, and instead setup the music studio in the shop mezzanine. I did that for less than the price of…
The Mockup Begins
Thanks to the COVID pandemic, I am about a year behind in my Sprinter Van conversion. But I am alive and healthy, so no complaints. The current problem is that…
View from my “Loft”
For five weekends I have been struggling to downsize from a 3 bedroom house to a small newly converted garage apartment in the hills of Monterey. I likely moved, re-boxed…
Phase 1 – Create a Sorting Space
Given I left Maryland for California in 2018 with nothing more that what fit in my car, one might think I am a hoarder. Yet every purchase was planned—mostly to…
Living in Paradise
OK – the anti-vaxxers are dying at a rate of 1000 day. Good riddance, less MAGA idiots. The rest of America doesn’t give a fuck, so the US will have…