Looking west (and a tad north) before we reorganized all the tools into the studio:


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When I was in my hyper-planning phase for the studio -- a phase you may remember lasted more than two years -- I occasionally got frustrated because I wanted dad's opinion on one thing or another, and I felt like he wasn't really paying attention ( Read more... )

Saturday dad and I built a wall! I'm more excited about it today than I was then -- for all I'd been looking forward to it, when push came to shove I ran up against my chronic perfectionism and a recalcitrant body that spent all weekend trying to decide whether to be ill or not. Building things when you're getting vertigo every time you stand up or ( Read more... )

You may make your juvenile jokes about having gas now. I'll wait ( Read more... )

I’m crossing my fingers for the inspection tomorrow, because if we have to replumb one thing, we may have to replumb the whole thing. Our air pressure test is holding steady at a notch over 10 psi, though, which is what the inspector is looking for ( Read more... )

We - well, mostly dad - busted our butts to get the gas line replumbedso I could have it inspected and turned back on today, but the custom-cut-and-threaded pipe we got on our fourth trip to Home Depot wasn’t threaded properly -- the fittings locked up two threads in. At 5:30 p.m. on a Sunday, the local place wasn’t open, and we didn’t want to ( Read more... )

It's really very validating to have my dad finally really examine my electrical panel. I'm only level 1 or 2 in electrickery (which goes up to Epic levels), and I've heard a lot of "No, really, it makes sense" and felt like a bit of an idiot -- so when he looked at it, looked at my map of what-turns-off-what, looked at the panel again, and said " ( Read more... )

First, I finished up with this stuff:


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Not only did the under-floor framing pass inspection, but the inspector said he'd trust me to continue the insulation in the same way as the sample bit I'd laid out, and signed off on the entire under floor assembly! W00t! Now I get to spend a few hundred bucks on plywood! Whoo, flat rectangles, yay ( Read more... )

Yesterday I planned to fully insulate my floor, so I could have a framing/insulation inspection done Tuesday, and get actual subfloor down this weekend. Slightly complicating this, I was also engaged in some familial diplomacy/trade, which is to say I was required to employ my brother, funded by my parents, so that he'd be out of the house doing ( Read more... )