How are you staying sane during quarantine?

Nice ride !

Thanks!! F5 65 Cobra, MK2 build completed in 2005 or so.

Rides even better when all 4 wheels stay on ; ). Should get it back late June.pasted_image (resized).png

Looks awesome. Thank you for your service and you deserve to cruise in that ride after deployment.

Built a gate and bench today. Lots of angle grinding. Was going to do the stairs next but rain put a stop to that. Early happy hour

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Was restoring these movie poster theatre marquees last month. I had a thought in my head about how it might look with leds installed, wel it came out exactly like I’d hoped
Today finally cut the trim on basement wall and installed the “Coming” one.
I love it!!!!

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Our boy is getting up there and we noticed him laboring to lay down so my wife took a old throw blanket and a old table cloth and stitched him up a bed. She stitched loops so it can be hung under the roof to stay dry and velcro'd the opening so it can be easily removed and thrown in the wash. As soon as he saw it he went and layed on it!

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Quarantine is over isn’t it?

Any of you guys played pool golf before? Pretty fun. The wife and I played a couple games tonight. I can see myself playing it alone and trying to top my best score.

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Never heard of this but now I have to try it. Where'd you find the scoreboard?

Chris

Dad bought it at the Dufferin store when he bought the table. Dufferin was a retail store in Canadian malls back in 90s/00s. Sold lots of 3d puzzles, bar games, etc.

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Jerking off on my web cam for extra cash ...

Good luck. There's a glut of that right now. LOL

Chris

TMI

Finally got around to clear coating the wall I put up last fall. Really pops now. Warmed the wood up good. 20200610_131519.jpg
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I've really enjoyed watching all your recent wood working projects bud. Nice job.

I glued together the squares around the pole yesterday and just made a hidden holder for my recently purchased 36" and 42" cues. Figured this is better then just having them lean against a wall somewhere and get chalk on the wall.

Thanks man.

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Nice old tv and time piece.

Picked it up at auction last year for my wife. She likes old furniture and I like cool, unique pieces. The swivel stand was a definite seller for me

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My wife took one of my Saskatchewan Roughriders/Pilsner flags today and made Jimi another bed for inside the house this time. 20200611_195843.jpg20200611_202109.jpg
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Lazy Boy, upcoming retirement, and this helps.

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I picked up this super cool piece last summer for $5 at a yard sale. Liked the patina on it so didn't want to paint the whole thing so I just highlighted a few things then sprayed it with a clearcoat.20200628_173414.jpg20200628_173435.jpg20200628_173455.jpg

I wanted to put it on the front yard but the wife thinks it will get stolen so she came up with this idea of him cruising on the bbq roof 20200628_193258.jpg

I'm actually been in a "if life gives you lemons, make lemonade" mode throughout.

My yoga studio closed down March 13. Through May, we were live streaming classes (on Facebook), moving towards a different economic model (supporting and sustaining members, kind of like public radio / tv) - I got to truck out a small lighting system, audio mixer, using an ipad to stream.

June 1 we started teaching classes via the Zoom platform (for money) and I got to design / build a special cart with webcams, mics, flat screen monitors so the teacher / tech could watch on something other than a laptop.

As we moved towards July, we started teaching outdoor classes (we've done that in the past, albeit for free through the town) so I had all the tech in house (a neat little wireless headset / receiver and battery powered PA / speaker that a typical yoga teacher could schlep and set up without assistance) but needed to pick up another set. So we've got two audio "fly packs" charged and ready to go for ~8 outdoor classes per week.

Now we're moving toward live streaming all in-studio classes (in a room we'd occasionally fit ~100 people, we can put 18 with social distancing) so I've got a full 3 camera shoot, using a slick little video switcher (4 x HDMI inputs, HDMI and USB, the USB looks like a webcam for streaming / zooming).

So basically, I've spent the entire quarantine / pandemic having fun screwing around with tech, and getting paid for it.

Jury is still out whether the studio can / will survive (we're brining money in but not nearly what we were pre-pandemic) but if the place does survive, it will be because I stepped up.

I have a dozen of my favorite pinballs.