Bought medium roast coffee from my local roasters (Been avoiding medium roast and always dark). Hand grind with my Timemore C2, gave it a good brew with my melitta brewer and enjoyed it with some milk.
Because I needed to do something with my hands, today I made a quick and dirty chest from a plank that was hanging around (and a bit of plywood for the bottom). The plank was low quality pine and badly warped, and 25mm thick which is way too thick and heavy for a chest of this size. The chest is glued with wood glue, the scews in the middle are there for integrity but mainly to force the bended wood straight .
I like how it turned out, and I will likely paint it blue. I have no use for it yet.
22mm speed-drill holes, then connect them using a (electrical) jigsaw.
In the meantime I ruined the good looks.
Like Don, I like clear coat so I skipped the blue idea. But I gave the outside a coloured “wash” first to make it a bit darker, and that showed my laziness of not removing the glue remains thoroughly. So now the outside looks a hundred years old and the inside as new .
No problem because it will live hardly visible under the wooden bench on our balcony. But maybe I will one day go for the blue anyway….
I’ve made that error with glue. I love and hate modern PVA glues.
I have a lid with wood hinges I made for a project and then didn’t use. It might fit. It may be a little small. It is canarywood with something else for the hinges. I forget just what off hand
After a few hours of testing and replacing an SSD I have a new to me, 4-year-old Alienware 17” laptop for no monetary cost! Just time and some parts I had on hand, left from other upgrades. Now that is fun! Woo-Hoo!
It is 4 years old and at the time was the top of the line Alienware laptop. Alienware are built for serious gaming but work well for non-gaming uses of course. Fast CPU, loads of RAM (32GB) :O, fast video card. The 17” display is very nice. Illuminated keyboard. It belonged to a friend and it presented him with the Blue Screen of Death one day. He tried a Windows 10 reset and it kept failing and doing the BSOD thing. He is a serious gamer and wanted a newer, faster computer anyhow, so he used this failure as a reason, or an excuse, to buy the latest top-of-the-line model.
To be fair I will be spending some real money on this, now that I have made it work again. The SSD I had in the parts drawer was only 64 GB. That was so huge when it was new. I will be buying a new lager one or two. It has 2 slots for M.2 SSD’s as well as a bay for a 2.5” drive.
Dunno if I can say I’m “enjoying” it, but I’m making banananananana bread now. Had 4 that were just entering that 38min between being “raw” and persimmon-like, and going all brown and yicky. Blender’s all nasty, hadn’t been used in ages, so shakes are out, so how to burn off 4 bananananananananas in a hurry? Hmm, B-bread or -cake, I guess.
Bit messy, just popped it into the oven like 5min from now, will see how it turns out. If good, then I’ll enjoy it.
38 min.? Sound like yours are fresher than the ones around here. Had a good friend who would not eat bannnannnnas unless they were wayyyyyy ripe. Grossed me out