It's been nine days. Nine days ago at this time I was asleep on the table in OR # 2. Yesterday one of the amazing nurses here at Naghoi removed my stitches. I have a nose again. It's weird seeing and feeling her there. She's very different now. Still very swollen, but noticeably smaller. She breathes differently, too. It is such a unique experience. The stitches on my eyelids also came out. I still have my cool Egyptian wing, but now without the little cross stitches. I can't wait for the swelling there to go down, and for the 'tissue memory', as the surgeon called it, to adapt to my new eye 'landscape'. I can already see the overall change, though. And it is SO cool. My eyes are so much more open. I have so much more of a canvas to paint upon. The big scar on the back of my head. Wow. It goes from one ear, up over the back of my head, down to my other ear. I keep joking that is where they installed my new brain. It will mostly vanish in a year or so. I cannot see my new chin. But the swelling has reduced between yesterday and today. So maybe I will catch glimpses of her soon? And, although it is all still a bit numb, I was able to shave again, which really helps my brainworms. Transition is lots of things (this is an understatement). A big one, for me, is taking firm control of my own body - that thing that was my prison for all those years. I am no longer stuck inside what nature mistakenly gave me - the girl silently screaming to be let out. I have (violently!) overthrown my heartless testosterone ruler. My body is now truly mine. Here in Marbella, I found a talented group of the kindest people imaginable who have re-shaped my very skull to my specifications. They have erased all of the abuse impressed upon it by so many years of suffering with testosterone. I'm still coming to grips with the idea that it has actually happened. That it isn't all a dream. The photo from just now, as I sit here in my room writing this. And that is a CT scan of my new skull. Apparently there is a fire within me! And some gnarly bits of titanium.

Feeling and looking a bit more like my true self every day. I'm gaining more of an idea of what my new face looks like. But so much of it remains hidden behind swelling and bandages. I spent a couple hours with hair today just to see if it was possible - and, yeah, it is. But it is better that I let my big scalp scar breathe, so I'm back as a bald-woman for the rest of the day. There is very little pain involved. Surprisingly little, actually. My jaw hurts near the incisions inside my mouth (just the side ones though, the one in front is fine), my temples hurt a little, I think from the chin support strap I'm wearing about 20 hours a day, and my ears hurt, also from that darned chin bra. That strap is important, though - it is there to help ensure my chin muscles reconnect correctly to my newly re-shaped jawbone. Gravity doesn't help in that one area. Surprisingly the huge incision on the back of my head doesn't hurt unless I laugh heavily or cry. Otherwise it's just back there doing its thing. And it is an interesting quirk of this place where I am today - it is full of both laughter and crying - and both of those activities hurt like hell after surgery. They are still very much part of the experience and the journey and so so worth it…but…ow. So, it is day 6 and I am doing wonderfully. My flight home is on the 27th. I am not sure I want to go.

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Hi everyone. I meant to do a bigger update but that's going to have to wait. But I wanted to keep you all up to date. My surgery went exactly as planned. I'm recovering on the normal timeline and everything looks normal. There's surprisingly little pain involved. Mostly just everything feels "weird" as my head settles back down into its new shape. And lots of stuff is still quite numb as I wait for the nerves to figure themselves out. Every day I have more energy and spend less time laying in bed. Every day I have less swelling. Every day my bruises move around and shrink. Every day I can see more and more of my new face. I'm super happy with what I can see so far. This photo is of me this afternoon taking a short rest in bed before dinner.

Date	2026:03:21 18:16:04
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Hi.

Much traveling to get here, but I am now happily set up in Marbella and surrounded by a pile of lovely friendly people! Surgical prep stuff starts in earnest tomorrow. For now I try to figure out how to relax (how do i do that anyway? I've never really tried) at the start of my year of vacation.

One last drink at The Dray. Tomorrow I am off to Spain for my Facial Feminization Surgery. This is the last time I'll be here sporting this mug.

Date	2026:03:09 20:44:57
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It is my last day at Viasat. There was a bit of rain but I had to go for one final look out from the top of the office I helped build all those years ago. It is a nice view. Its been a long road at Inmarsat and then Viasat. And its been an even longer one when I include OnAir. Almost 20 years in the same industry. It is time to take a break.

I was looking at old photos the other day and came across this one. I had started HRT about a week before the left photo was taken. I was in a lavatory onboard a British Airways flight to London. I had not intended to jump into HRT and immediately jump onto an airplane but...I literally could not wait. The beard went away about 1 month after this. That person on the left had no idea she could become the person on the right. The photo on the right is last week. When looking at these types of old photos I try to figure out what has changed. What I see is: * huge skin changes (beyond the makeup). My skin is so much smother and has a much more uniform (and lighter) coloring. I had been doing heavy skin care for ~3 months prior to the left photograph. I'm sure the fact that i kept doing that helped, but I think the biggest change here is the Estrogen. * reduction in wrinkles. I don't now how. But the wrinkles on my brow have decreased, and around my eyes. * where'd the beard go?! I was coloring both my beard and my hair in that old photo. * my cheeks are different...somehow. * my undereyes are different. There is more padding there. (I had started using eye cream at least a year prior to the left photo.) * my eyes overall are more open. I felt this happening early on HRT. Something just caused me to open them wider. I felt it in tired muscles and a difference in moisture for a few months before I got used to it. * its hard to see because of the beard, but my chin and jaw are softer somehow. * and everything is somehow just softer with more rounded edges. * my eye color lightened up, particularly on the outer edge. i tried to take good photos of this effect, because I had read about it, but i didn't do a very good job. Anyway, I think its all just remarkable. It is not hyperbole to say that HRT saved my life. HRT by itself was not enough. But I would not be here today had I not started HRT in 2024. Not all Trans-people need HRT. But those who need it...really do NEED it. HRT is life-saving treatment. You can see its biggest effect in my eyes - inner peace and hope. May 2024 (~1 week on HRT) -> Feb 2026 (~ 2 years on HRT)

More documenting of my "second face" before the installation of my "third face". I don't have enough documentation of my "first face" (though "he's" painful for me to look at now. too unhappy.). Trying to not make that same mistake this time. Walking to lunch on Westlake. Seattle, Feb 2026.

This is me today. Making a sort of silly but determined face. I have literally never been happier with how I look than I am today. My transition includes a whole lot of things, but the physical changes that have already happened to my face are, to me, nothing short of miraculous. On good days (like today) I find it hard to walk by mirrors and not stop and look. To stop and wonder: how did this happen? How can I look like this? I spent so many agonizing years looking so incredibly wrong. So many years helplessly trapped behind a face that wasn't actually me. I am just amazed (on the good days). On the good days I can spend minutes standing at a mirror making funny faces. Just seeing what my not-all-that-horrible-anymore face can do. Those are amazing feelings. But there are also bad days. And those days suck. They sort of suck worse now because I have experienced what not hating how I look feels like. I have experienced glimpses of a face that I can identify as actually being me. On those days I still avoid mirrors. I try not to actively scowl at myself like I used to...because I know it will probably get better. But it still sucks. It hurts. Bad. Thirty days from today, on March 17, I am having Facial Feminization Surgery. 30 days from today I will have...a very different face. A face with most of the male attributes shaved off. A face with more curves and fewer sharp edges. A different forehead, different eyelids, a different nose, different lips, a different chin. And my neck is changing a little too, with a smaller adam's apple. I cannot freaking wait. 30 days to go. THIRTY DAYS. This is me today. In thirty days I will look...a whole lot worse (hehe). But in the weeks and months that follow, as my surgical trauma heals, I'll be much much closer to a face that I can truly comfortably live with. The face I've dreamed of my whole entire life. I can't wait.

Very nice on Lake Union today.

Date	2026:02:05 10:38:55
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After hiding in them for so so long, now she's casting her own shadow.

2025 was a doozy! I grew so much as an actual whole person.

Happy Solstice to everyone. This is what is called a Solargram. It is a photo taken over a 6 month period. It shows the path of the sun as seen from the balconny on the south-side of my house in Seattle. On top of the image is July 25. On the bottom is today. The camera is a safe deposit box with a pinhole to allow in the light. The photo is taken on black and white Ilford photo paper. The result ends up being coloful, but the colors aren't really related to the subjects in the image. I'm not sure anyone knows where the colors come from. The spots are water damage, though. Anyway, I've taken a few of these over the years. This is the first one where i've had my shit together well enough to cover almost the whole 6 month cycle.

As we come up to the end of the year I have started looking back over how my year has been. These three photos are all quite recent...but are pretty damned huge steps in my life. The first photo...that's the last photo of Audin ever taken. It was taken at 11:33 on 14 October at work. I am pleased the last photo of me as that person shows a bit of a smile. When I took it I suspected it was close to the last one. My 'Audin act' was happy about that. He was happy to finally retire. Hopeful about my future. The second photo directly follows the last one. Its not the first photo of Kiera, by a long way, but it is the first photo of her (me!) having completely taken control of my life. It was taken at 23:46 on 14 Oct, following a night of trivia with friends. The third photo is of me about to go to Thanksgiving dinner. It was taken at 11:19 on 27 Nov. This is who I am today. I've never known so much happiness.

Today marks one month since I last had to act as the 'guy' shown on my old ID badge. In late 2023 that 'guy' - the person who I thought I had to be - was extremely depressed. I don't know the exact date that photo was taken - but it was probably November - which means he was only about a month away from the injury that pushed him over the cliff. In the two-ish years since I've...well I've become someone else. And it has been the most amazing journey. This last week several things came together to make this new ID badge happen. All that same stuff also got me a new drivers license! Sadly I don't have that photo yet. A couple weeks...

King County Courthouse lobby.

Date	2025:10:30 09:22:21
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Little glimpses of my true self like this help me get through the days where I am stuck away from home in boy mode.

Date	2025:09:24 07:19:24
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I live two lives at the moment. So I need little reminders to check who I am at any given moment. This one helps remind me who is supposed to be on camera in any given situation... I have mixed up my zoom accounts a few times, though not yet with the camera on! It is surprisingly complicated though. Today I'm at work in boy-mode but only above the waist. Down below there's a skirt. So I have to remember not to walk in and out of frame.

Date	2025:07:28 08:55:46
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Last day of my summer holiday. I scheduled three weeks off with mostly the idea of just not working. But in the lead up I realized I could use the time to move my transition along. So for three weeks now I have been in "Kiera mode" almost all the time. And it's been awesome. And terrifying. And amazing. And now I don't want to go back. So. Here I am. Sitting at my favorite pub. As I am today. 1 year and about 3 months since starting HRT and my transition. Progress! Finally. I will not stagnate ever again.

Date	2025:07:25 16:51:46
Date taken	2025:07:25 16:51:46

Solargram. Seattle. March 7 through July 25 2025. Ilford MGRC (i think). Camera was a safe deposit box.

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I realized a remarkable thing this last week. There are now 21 people in my life who have met and only know the real me. The first chart shows the number of people, other than myself, who know who I really am. That number was zero prior to 2024. The second chart shows my whole life. It demonstrates that I did not understand who I was consistently for the first 48 years of my life. At times I knew who and what I was. But at other times I repressed it so well I did not. The second chart also shows how remarkably different my life became after my acceptance in early 2024. The singular most important aspect of my whole being was a secret from the whole world for 48 years. I've spent the last three weeks (I've been on holiday) almost entirely in Kiera-mode. I have never experienced more hope in my entire life. This has been the most fulfilling three weeks of my life. It has also been terrifying. And I am dreading next week when I have to be him again for work purposes. But I can finally foresee a time when I can fully retire my "fake guy persona" - the defense mechanism that I built to keep me safe but instead has entrapped and harmed me for so many years - and that gives me the will to keep progressing. I am filled with hope, where in just 2023 there literally was none.

I try to do voice practice when I'm driving. This usually just involves talking to myself. The vowel glides turn out to need more concentration. I also find myself admiring my nails while driving if the lighting is good.

Date	2025:07:19 17:20:52
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My make-entryway-less-boring project is done. I cleaned up the walls, replaced all the moulding, and repainted everything. I haven't figured out what to do about the little area that used to house a bench. I think it is interesting how although the walls now reflect less light, the space feels much much brighter.

Weekend trip. Yay.

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This hallway is full of transistor radios.

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Back in the darkroom.

Date	2025:02:17 13:24:52
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Wow. It has been six months. It is hard to believe how much has changed in that six months. I know this makes sense to only very few of you. But... It has been an amazing six months. Here's to another amazing six months and many years following.

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Still my favorite place for a beer!

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Howdy.

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I found a Kodak No. 2A Brownie Model B camera at the ReStore a few months ago. After futzing around to make the wide film fit in a developing tank this one image came out. This was shot on Verichrome Pan 116 film. That film was available until 1984. The camera model was produced from 1907 through 1933. I'm guessing the photo is from the 1940s?

The sauna now has a proper roof. And hi.

Darkroom time.

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No Sky. Some Sky. Lots of Sky. +2 stops to get the sky to show up. London 2020. Acros. 120. 16x20 print.

Missed it by 0.6 of a mile.

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@instantboxcamera camera complete! One rather poorly exposed positive created. (Then I ran out of light).

Hello from 30,000 ft above southern France using the EAN system I helped build.

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2023:02:10 11:44:19

Processing big film.

Black border paint is still drying.

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2022:10:19 18:41:05

Complicated insides.

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Make the old wood look a bit better. Haven't worked out all the interior complexity yet. So doing finish now for more pondering time.

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2022:10:18 11:01:35

Some interior progress.

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2022:10:17 19:47:01

Building a thing. Complicated angles. I don't do compound miters often - makes the brain hurt. Also, how do you clamp something with no flat sides?🤯

Going through the contents of my smashed-up truck I noticed that the tire chains had an...issue...which has now been fixed!

Kodak Plus-x from 1952.

8mm movie film. This is Kodachrome 40 that expired in 1980. I need the magazine it came in for reloading with new film. Developed as b&w negative in hc110.

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Tiny little negatives.

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The final print. Tri-X in Rolli 35. HC-110. Ilford ART 300 paper. Can't decide if I like the paper yet.

Some printing today. Also the white balance on my phone is completely broken.

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Success!

Battery removed. What a pain.

Laptop Surgery Day. Late 2013 Macbook Pro's battery is at 2098 charge cycles. Doesn't work so well these days.

Not chilaquiles.

How about some stars? #cathodecorner #scopeclock

Wrote some new clock faces for my #cathodecorner Scope Clock. It is fun writing software where the code directly interacts with an electron gun. The finite speed of the electron gun and the DACs driving it directly impact the code.

The only non-work photo I took on my first trip to London in almost 2 years. Should probably emphasize the photography a bit more.

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Getting a real dystopian vibe from the Lowes parking lot.

Some film.

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Welcome to #ballard #seattle. But not if you are one of those dirty poor folks...

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Behind the scenes.

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Sunny CL70. 16x20 RA-4 reversal. #ra4reversal

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Almost 109F in my back yard.

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38C / 100F on my back deck!

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Back Yard Pinhole. 16x20 paper negative. A phone scan of the severely over-exposed negative. Ooops.

16x20 inch macro of Viking Gnome. Arista paper negative. Ilford MGIV RC print. Thanks to @_r_o_y_a_ for the gnome!

Wet Plate Collodion - Lion with Ball 2021

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Wet Plate Collodion - Sam 2021

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Wet Plat Collodion - Audin 2021

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The process.

Ghostly viking gnome.

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Sam. 16x20 paper negative. #crappyphonescan

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Seattle Back Yard Spring 2021. #cyanotype

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Major camera.

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Odd photo taken with the 16x20. Paper negative. Light leaks.

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And number 2!

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Okay. Now how do I get it rolled over? This thing is heavy.

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2021:04:18 18:22:20

Big camera. Big lenses.

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1 down!

Software	Google
Date taken	2021:04:07 15:49:58

This is an old thermometer I bought from the Ballard Restore some years ago. It clunked around in boxes for a while before I built a mount for it from old fittings and a bit of aluminum from a CommutaCar. It now stands next to my front door. #oldprojects #bitsofmyhome

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In my library which is also my office is a closet. Within this closet is an old ikea dresser that contains large amounts of crap (electrical components, computer bits, wire, tools, connectors, etc). It was full, so the crap was invading the rest of the library. So I built a shelf to fit next to the dresser in the same closet to increase the storage capacity and make it a little less chaotic. The shelf is made from about 2 sheets of 5x5 12mm baltic birch plywood, finished in 4 sprayed on coats of lacquer. 31" x 60" x 11".

Why are there so many of these things on my desk? It's like they self-replicate.

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Some critter decided the fuel line on my truck was very tasty...

The Three Forms of Cheese.

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New book by @djrothkopf. New strategically placed sticker by @kakulseth .

Go vote! Vote like your very life and that of your friends depends on it! (and don't forget the documentary photographs for evidence should your ballot go missing.)

Too much change.

Springy.

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Fall fire with the moon.

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The weekend project: some drawers for the shop.

Hat rack has a new tenant.

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Last night's backyard firepit was thanks to @trailbendtaproom

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A fine evening with a nice fire, an IPA (out of frame) and an engaging book by @jillfilipovic

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From dead tree to chair. The old tree gets to keep some of itself in its yard for a few more years.

Tree.

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Sparky.

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Hopefully raw material for final chairs.

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Chair prototype.

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I've voted by mail my entire life. When I turned 18 I signed up for absentee status (no goofy eligibility hoops in WA) and then the whole state moved to mail-in a few years later. Even the irksome need to find a stamp has now been rectified. Go vote if you haven't yet done so!

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Back garden disruption.

We've had some electrical issues for a bit here at the house. We suspected the neutral connection had a problem. Seattle City Light came out today to look and replaced the power line. There was indeed a minor issue with the neutral conductor.

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Green car is halfway to the driveway! It has 1 functional tire. The other three are all rotted and exploded.

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The light fixture next to my balcony has been usurped by an invading colony of wasps!

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#neowise from my roof. Not the best camera.

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Nerdy.

Old tire : New tire

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Done!

I think visually tonight's fire says 'bad 80s scifi'. But the music is all wrong.

First away-from-home dining experience since lockdown! Tasty chiliquiles from @fourspoonscafe .

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Yummy breakfast from the fine folks at @fourspoonscafe !

The Honda CL70 is getting a new battery! Of course, it is a 6 volt battery, so charging it to 12.4 volts will be quite challenging.

Reworked the wrench corner to hold the new yellow and red handles.

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Now that is a box of film. (8x10 inch box on top for scale)

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Success! It has much more grunt with 240v and the lights don't flicker when firing it up!

Tearing apart large portions of the shop to add more 240v outlets.

My shop building clean-up has gone sort of sideways.

Tasty breakfast from @fourspoonscafe !

Breaking in the new 'fire pit'.

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Posting for the bug.

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Today's project: better storage for the long skinny stuff.

Today's project was a new bench for the shop building. This replaces an annoying industrial table that had been in the location for the last 10 years or so. The pottery wheel will be moving (not sure where yet) to make room for some cabinets. the far end stays open as the 'desk' for the x-carve (under the pile of crap in the distance).

The working.

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How did I end up with so many cover plates?

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I needed a new shop clock. The old one was some $3 Ikea thing that had stopped working. Fixed the mechanism (glued the motor rotor back together) and stuck some numbers on a piece of 1970s (?) plywood

Happy drawers.

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Drawer! Needs a front.

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A young drawer still getting it's shit together.

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Some plywood and Masonite.

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My new bench needs one more drawer.

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I don't understand how any part of this board was able to be straight.

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Lens board.

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Carbon fiber spring.

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Shutter mechanism for an 8 inch diameter aero lens.

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Ground glass and carbon fiber springs. Slow progress on the 16x20.

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Not Chilaquiles.

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Yep. Cookies.

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Light reading tonight.

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Yard Burger with YARD FRIES! @yardcafeseattle

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Dreading the eventual burn ban on top of the eventual shelter in place order.

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Yay for takeout Chilaquiles from @fourspoonscafe

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Argh. These aircraft computers have invaded my house once again.

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16x20 camera is slowly coming along. Now to figure out the film holder clamp thingy.

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Takeout pizza from @trailbendtaproom! Yay!

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Go big or go home?

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Sigrun, my ever faithful companion over the last 17 years, passed away last week. She had been fighting kidney and thyroid problems for some time. She was found near one of her favorite napping spots on the morning of the day I was due to return home. I missed seeing her alive by less than a day. I took this photo when I said goodbye and told her not to worry that I'd be back in 2 weeks time. She had been doing pretty well. I really thought she would be okay for those 2 weeks. I was wrong. I believe she died of heart failure as a complication of the thyroid problem. She died in her home, as would have been her wish (she hated going anywhere) and I believe there was not much pain involved. I just wish I could have been there with her. Sigrun was 17.5 years old. Goodbye, kiddo.

Airplane wing.

Up the mountain.

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Bird. Water. Mountains.

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We'll... That worked okay.

RA-4 prior to reversal.

RA-4 direct positive color print.

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Hmm.

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Not the best portrait ever. But it is a direct positive color image taken on RA-4 paper processed in my darkroom. Aero Ektar -> SpeedGraphic -> fuji RA-4 paper -> LPD first dev -> stop -> water -> light bulb -> Arista RA-4 CD -> water -> Arista BLIX.

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Sigrun found a box.

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Found this scrap of carpet in my basement while cleaning. It says 'muppet' to me more than it says 'flooring'..

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Let's try out this newfangled 'internet' thing!

Sadly there was no visible damage to that hard drive i worked on recently. Interestingly it packed 40gb on a single side of one platter and lacked a mechanism to lift the head off the platter when parked.

Webster Chicago wire recorder from about 1950. The Greenhorns from about 2005.

Brilliant.

Woot! I pre-ordered @drbecky_s book from the UK and not only did it arrive (always a surprise with Amazon UK) but I received a second copy later the same day in totally different packaging. Now I need to find a worthy recipient for the extra!

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Who's for crackers?

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This doesn't mean much to most of the population. But, BBSes from 1995 or 96 or so! My BBS was "gbs" in the bottom row.

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New lighting in the kitchen is coming along. One more led bar to build tomorrow. Then a bit of wiring to hook them into the motion sensor and figure out how to mount the power supplies for best cooling. It will end up as about 70 watts total via the indirect bars, plus the two pendants of unremembered size and two 40 watt Edison filament bulbs above the sink.

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So it seems that all the errors are at the front of the drive. This is a 40gb 3.5" disk. Presumably the primary event hit at the 1.6bg point on the disk and then the stuff to the left is debris causing further damage. The disk to the right seems fine. #datarecovery #spinningdisk #makebackups

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Trying to recover a failed drive. 40gb ide drive from about 2006. Majority of the data has come off, but there is a bad surface defect starting at 1.6gb that is right on top of the most important bits.

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BBSing. Modeming. Olympia Citadel BBSes of the 1990s.

Sigrun is doing a bit better. She is eating again, though only about 1/2 or 3/4 of her prior normal amount. Sadly the key to this progress was to move the food bowl next to the bedroom sliding glass door where she is spending all her time. So her universe is shrinking again, and she only comes downstairs a few times a day now. I have deliberately tried to keep her moving about the house, but I think her joints are just too painful to keep up with that now.

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No comment.

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A wet plate from a while ago.

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Kitty is back at the hospital. Stupid kidneys.

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Kitty ramp.

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Stain.

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Curve. Lots of brad nails.

Mystery project.

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2 days, 56 hours flight time remaining. Good job, BA.

Neat light fixture.

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Snow.

Load testing.

A shelf for the pantry room.

The big cedar tree in my back yard has died. :( Apparently Western Red Cedars are not happy with the changing climate.

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A box. FIVE HOURS on the CNC machine. Too slow.

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This doesn't seem like a good sign.

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St Helens.

Stripes

Carving plastic.

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Made it all the way to work and back home... Then got stuck trying to get back up my driveway. Ah well. Decent place for it at least.

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Sign for work.

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Chromoskedasic Sabattier print. It is iridescent copper with some blue in person. Negative from a 8x10 pinhole camera on fuji x-ray film.

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My mom’s cat Emma passed away today from complications due to kidney failure. She was about 18 years old. She was my mom’s companion for the last 10 years of her life.

Continuing with the oh-so-intereting office-relatd posts. This is the whiteboard installed!

I built a big whiteboard for the new office. 4x8 foot sheet of whiteboard with 6 inch cedar frame, finished with dark briwax. It JUST barely made it up the stairs into its final installation location.

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A bad picture. But Sigrun is vertical again!

Visiting the unhappy kitty in the hospital. She was at least happy to see me and was somewhat more active than when I last saw her. Current estimate is that she can come home tomorrow evening. Then we get to do the subcutaneous fluid thing for a while.

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My poor kitty Sigrun is sick. She has spent the last 30 hours at the hospital getting iv fluid and antibiotics to fight and infection and help her kidneys. This is her in the box waiting to be seen by the vet.

Why is this not a magazine about BBSes and Trade Wars?

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20F warmer and I'd swear I was back in Qatar.

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New telescope!

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Drywall has arrived!

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Saturn. I need a better telescope.

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Some jerk threw out some perfectly usable photography equipment!

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My trucks back window bought it. I suspect a rock thrown when I was mowing next to it. :(

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Cat has a whole airplane seat to sit on and insists on sitting on the edge of the other seat.

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Floorwashing robot is slightly spazzy.

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Neighborhood kitty likes the new landscaping.

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Emma doesn't much care for the seating on this airline.

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This Smurf was passed out on my driveway this morning.

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Old for sale sign that had been turned into part of some shelving in my houses basement garage.

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Seattle sucks.

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Replacement retaining wall. This time with stairs.

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She is unimpressed with the frozen pizza.

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Steel awning installed!

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Good people. Good beer. Good food.

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Rust.

Building a metal awning for my garage door. The sheets will rust to a nice red, and the ribs will be coated to stay (for a while) clean. 120lbs. Lots of screws. I need a welder.

They aren’t pretty, but these #speakerlab 1s sound pretty decent. I think the straps have been there since they were built in around 1973...

The hotel in London had dumb android tablet light and heating controls. They were very poorly done. Think of no-name $50 android tablets glued to the walls. Slow, unresponsive, and crashy. Also, fiddling with a touch screen in the middle of the night to pee is stupid.

When in Geneva...

Starts well...then ends with rubbish.

Emma. Old cat in blue light. #momscat #nofilter

Wastebasket made from left-over flooring from the room it will be living in. #sustainableharvest #douglasfir

At one point in her life Sigrun did not like leather. She seems to have gotten over this.

My reproduction Pioneer 10/11 engraving arrived! A few hours in the shop and it is now ready to go on the wall! #oak from the house of @tarotandmovewithjennifer ! #pioneerplaque #pioneer11 #woodworking

Finally found the trucks exhaust leak. Cracks in the cat! Matt kindly welded them up!

3D printed mount for 1W LED on steam-punkish copper pipe conduit.

Wrenching.

Wall of visual confusion.

I made this in middle school woodshop class. I don’t know why. I never could stand all the standing around in baseball.

I made a fleet of little of little 777 aircraft for coworkers to celebrate a work thing. #xcarve

One of my shop walls needed a covering. I had plywood and a bunch of reject silver prints. So they all went on the wall. It makes finding tools somewhat complicated.

New PEI on MIC-6 cast aluminum build plate.

Hall lighting. 1 watt warm white LEDs, 3D-printed mountings, copper pipe conduit, motion sensing, PWM fade-up and day/night mode to avoid blindness.

Power supply and fader for LED hall lighting.

Shelves installed with crap accumulation. One more level to build.

Shelves stained and lacquered.

Another level of shelves for the library.

.

New mount for the left speaker (speakerlab, built by my uncle!) and new shelves for the amp and some other unknown stuff.

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Secret airplane-shaped carving project. Ssshhhhhh!

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Wasps!

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Not the best photo. But part 1 is on the wall. Part 2 awaits more ideas and a fix for a software issue I ran into.

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Earthrise in relief.

Sigrun.

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#socialism

Received my Voyager Golden Record set yesterday!

Art project. I need to make about 25 of these carvings to covert the wall of my houses entryway. Birch plywood carved on #xcarve and finished in various random ways.

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We found hops! Glorious hops!

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We finally have to get on i5.

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I5 - parking.

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Just before totality.

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Road to eclipse.

Raku pot I made in high school.

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This blue LED is too much.

Now in the very nose of a 747-400. If the end comes from the front, at least it will be quick!

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Empty airplane and my head.

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Sand.

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Three big biplanes just flew over east London.

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Yay new-to-me bandsaw! Thanks Gary!

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10x10x10

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Doha, Qatar.

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OnAir's news system (which I helped develop) still has trouble with duplicate articles!

Qatar QR1 flight to Heathrow skirting unfriendly airspace has confused the Thales IFE system's moving map display.

Neat camera view from Qatar A350 IFE system by Thales.

This man is hoovering a giant teddy bear.

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"Traveling American geek"

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Someone has converted newlines into spaces in a very simplistic way here, causing odd double-spacing.

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Not sure what it is. But it is spiral.

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Nose.

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The world needs a sharp left turn.

A gentile reminder for the co-pilot.

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There is a little wifi access point way way up on this hanger wall.

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Through the fan blades.

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GE.

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Boeing 777-300ER.

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Tail ID.

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Sorry about the light pole.

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My Scandinavian genes do not like this weather.

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B777.

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Camels in front of the Emir's house.

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Wifi is OFF.

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I wonder if the mercury is still in there.

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Tiny little Qatari kitty.

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Hard to be productive...

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Long road down the maintenance hanger.

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Doha with sandstorm.

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Doha.

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This Qatar A350 includes a ring transporter. #stargate

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747.

Shelf. Wedges. #xcarve

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Pop gun I made when I was probably about 10 years old. A tree branch, a faucet gasket, a washer and screw, and one nail.

An LED flashlight discovered at my moms. It is large enough for C cells but the designers decided to use...AAA! #poorlydesigned

A 3D printed box for my USB-tty teletype adapter. No more exposed 140 volts! Need another phone jack to do full-duplex. And button labels that make sense.

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I built this for my mom when I was 14 or so. It was the first piece of 'presentable' furniture I built (from plans in some book).

My grandfather made this to prevent my 5-year-old self from opening the front gate and escaping down the street.

Model 14 tape typer with 3D printed tape spool.

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Found the right adjustment! It finally works!

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My signature has not improved.

Sandcastle building tools for the yearly family Seaside, OR trip.

Cleaning out mom's house.

Ernst.

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Switch. Teletype. 1940s.

Teletype. Fungus. War

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Happy #yurisnight everyone!

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There is a big tower thing here.

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There is water everywhere. Even more so than Seattle.

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New Zealand seems a decent place.

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New Zealand! Nice out.

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Mmmmm.

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Yes. That's right! This is Rx-only water!

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Blood

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Drugs. Barcodes. Tape. Alcohol wipes. Scissors. Modern medicine.

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Delivery from Sweden!

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Lamp. 8-bit punched paper tape from an 33ASR teletype. 3 watt LED.

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Organized!

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Specializing in metals and TP.

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That's right! Teletype themed wrapping this year!

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It had 42000 miles when I bought it. Pretty good value for $8000 12 years or so ago. #fordranger #pintoengine

Dangerous times.

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My Bernie sign comes down to be replaced with a sign of support for those in need.

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It's on Wikipedia. I just don't understand.

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Organized! #xcarve

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10-year-old abandoned solvent tank. Yummy.

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Paying the tab.

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This person has a cannon pointed at his neighbor.

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Much surfing.

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Seagull.

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Three Sisters, I think?

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Tacoma.

St. Helens.

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1980 CommutaCar has seen (slightly) better days!

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This seems like a good idea.

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POW!

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I'm gonna need a very big can of Fix-a-Flat...

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This strange person in London locked their helmets to their front wheel. This seems like a very wet thing to do in London...

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A very grungy whiteboard. Perhaps slightly more exaggerated via the filters...

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Blinky.

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Painted!

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Can anybody tell me why these exist? What horrible experience led someone to design and then someone else to pay money for such? The Horrible Bent Edison Pin Incident.

Thermometer. Main part from @ballard_reuse , copper fitting is a freeze-damaged anti-siphon valve that exploded a few winters ago, and the mounting plate is from a CommutaCar.

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Arrrrrrgh!

Jason, Federico, Switzerland.

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Switzerland! #cows

The shard.

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The tube.

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We seem to have run into a beer bar.

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E-T in a C-5!

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Bathroom sign in Center for Computing History.

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'Late' nite drinks.

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Yay for many beers!

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Funny lamp on BA 777.

Leaky.

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Nick sanding.

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Get ready for some serious labeling.

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Replacing bum clapboards.

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Heating register. #xcarve #douglasfir

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Stop bath gives iced tea a nice ZING!

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Sigrun.

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Pinball machine moved into place. Thanks to Sam for helping with the move!

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For some reason @fieldandstream started sending this crap to me. Newsflash: I have no need to compensate by killing defenseless animals. #insecuremen #compensating #animalcruelty #straighttotherecyclebin

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Dot-com Sigrun is sure her stock options will make all the overtime worthwhile!

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Some...person...turned a tube radio cabinet into a stand for a jointer.

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Apple. Still doing it wrong.

The Dray.

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Giant caulking gun takes glue in sausage form. The sausage casing ends up as a little ring of compressed plastic.

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Almost half done!

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The very first plank fought back. Can you see why? Issue avoided in subsequent planks.

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Instruments of self-torture.

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Scuzzy wiring in a WW2-era US Navy fan.

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Wafflescat is happy to eat the food I provide, but wants to know what the hell I did with her humans.

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Sigrun does not approve of the sub-floor.

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Three rows done. Two hand-nailed with a spline down the center of the room. The next part should go faster.

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First piece of fir flooring laid down! 400 sq ft to go!

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Keys. Sun. Meteorite fragment.

Teletype mechanism.

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Teletype keys.

Shop speakers finished and shelved. (Shelves from the #xcarve. Speakers are not. #overnightsensations #wooddye)

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Stool prototype. #xcarve #mushroomcloud #spaceneedle

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Camera repair. #yashicamat124g

Booooo. BA broke my yashicamat 124g! #yashicamat124g

Warning: Don't use the OnAir GSM test network!

I drink coffee and eat dessert when I'm in Europe. It's weird.

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It was like the changing of the guard or something. Crazy pomp. Lots of guys in fuzzy hats, horses. You know.

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So this is a shitty shot. But, it appears to be impossible to get a good photo of this awesome building from the ground. So be it.

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#nofilter !

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Wet London.

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Nyon, Switzerland. #nofilter

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Wtf Apple? This is a MINOR update. You're doing it wrong.

First coat of lacquer. Starting to bring out the chips. #osb #xcarve #lacquer

Stained shelf. Next up: lacquer! #osb #xcarve

Stained OSB. Ebony, Early American, none. #osb #woodwork

Damn. Washed cast iron, put it on the stove to dry, wandered away... #poorseasoning

Shelf. #osb #xcarve

Mac plus still works!

New fir flooring for the upstairs bedrooms.

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FOUR layers of packaging to "protect" a solid carbide router bit. Sigh.

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Crate in OSB. Finish is Briwax (not sure I like it). Cut on the x-carve. #xcarve #OSB

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Speaker back. Blue+yellow aniline dye and first coat of lacquer.

Comment added 2026: My 'guy filter' was quite disturbed and worried that these speakers had come out too colorful. But I immediately fell in love with them. They started life in the shop building but soon after that moved into my bedroom. They are still there - plugged into a little D amplifier and a tube headphone amp to 'smooth out' my laptop's audio - when I really can't sleep these pretty speakers play very loud music until I can.

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Beer, pizza, helmet, light reading.

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Spirograph in OSB. #xcarve

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PROOF that global warming is a MYTH!1!!!1

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And this crazy version of Mercury uses landing rockets!

Yep, that's the oddest rendering of Vanguard 1 I have ever seen.

Polluted food. #capitalismsucks

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Monogrammed glasses. I'm slightly disturbed by this!

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X-carve stress-test. Some issues to work out still.

Nyon.

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The drafting table I had as a kid was very wobbly.

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Scammell.

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Home away from home?

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America! #capitalismsucks

X-carve with upgraded spindle.

Birdie Sanders!

Also, #capitalism has produced this hilarious usb-powered whale-shaped portable piezo humidifier!

Look! More waste! #capitalismsucks

Quality soldering job there, Avyzar.

High school. Lemmings.

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New light switches for the bedroom remodel.

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Suspicious that they are so secretive about the 'other natural flavor'...

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Very old photo paper from Restore. The prinz stuff is from 1971 and 72...

Salmon Bay has newly reupholstered booths!

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This is a pain in the butt.

Significant as one of about four incandescent bulbs left in my house. This one is turned on about once every 3 years...

Sun in February at The Dray!

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Wow. It actually exists!

Paul Kantner.

This is a bum magnetron!

Late on account of not being near my turntable.

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Northern line.

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Small pint.

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Ride home. My seat is on top on the right!

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: I have always found it very weird to sit in the front of a 747. Both floors feel very weird. The nose is very sharply curved. So it is very obvious that you are sitting very far forward in the airplane. Being far forward on the lower deck is the weirdest...the cabin tapers off sooo much...it just fades off into what is very clearly THE TIP OF THE AIRPLANE. The upper deck is less weird, as there is a wall in the forst leading to the cockpit. I don't feel quite so out front. Also the top floor is really quiet. There is very little noise from the lower cabin. But it feels isolated. And the little staircase is...odd. It is a very weird airplane.

Compare this to my expeirences on A380s: A380s feel exactly like B777s. Top floor or bottom floor. It just FEELS LIKE A B777. Where the B747 is oddly curvy (it is, by far, the sexier airplane) the A380 is almost a straight tube. So I always feel like I'm just sitting on a run of the mill B777. I was sad when BA retired its 747-400s. They were obviously old...but they were cool.

I let Cheeseburger out for a little roam today.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: This turned out to be Cheeseburgers last wander outside. He sniffed around for a minute or two and then wanted to go back inside. He passed about a month later.

I say "he passed". But it was more complicated than that. I did not belive he would survive my then-upcoming trip to europe. So on December 3, 2015 I arranged for his vet to come out to our house and end his suffering. I held him as she did it. It was the hardest thing I had ever done in my life up to that point. Feeling his life fade away in my hands. I still think it was the right thing to do. He was not enjoying life - he wanted peace. But goddess was it hard.

Carving.

Bubble.

Finally heading back home.

Latitude	51.4718
Longitude	-0.4860

Thank you UPS person!

Too many currencies!

Nice day for a walk along the lake.

My favorite breakfast place. #fourspoonscafe

Grumpy.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: Cheeseburger

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: Pretty sure this is Nyon, Switzerland

Mmmm.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: The Fat Hen. They aren't as good now.

New chemicals!

850 pages!

Random experiment of the day: Salt print using only stuff I had on hand. Not sure why it is that color...

National maritime museum.

Greenwich.

Black Arrow

Science museum. This image is more engineering than science though.

Nice day for it.

This needs Hillary 'moving to the right' arrows added.

Leg room is good.

I think she's figured out I'm leaving today.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: I never did work out how she knew. But she always did know. I was generally depressed before each trip...so perhaps she worked out that relationship?

Trim paint.

This looks like a drawing of Apollo. But it is actually of Vanguard! Several years before Apollo existed.

Lots of hairs inside.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: Vanguard

Finally a good print. Only took 5 tries!

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: Vanguard

Not the best weather for contrast.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: London

Sigrun.

Lampshade with prototype top section.

3d printed lampshade.

Who would dare give me the raspberry?

A chili eating thing.

Relithing.

Relith

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: She was so awesome. Sigrun

Lots of lith prints.

Prints from last weeks darkroom session.

Prints after ironing.

New years day prints dry and awaiting ironing.

Far away friends.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: Geneva

Some prints.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: Greenwood Car Show

Me roots.

Fog.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: Hoko.

Tatoosh.

Salmon.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: Hoko.

Bonfire.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: Hoko.

Beer in Geneva.

Br.

Safelight.

Geneva.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: This is one of my favorite shots. It is very hard to print well. But it is very cool.

Mini-Audin. A gift from my friend Roya from Sweden.

Ladies coke...

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: Damned right that brought on The Feels.

Company branded M&M's?

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: OnAir Seattle. These tasted so bad.

2-smokin.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: GT550

Leg room.

Birthday Sam.

'Color' IR shot of river.

Tent.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: I just stared at that candle. I'm getting chills when I think now about that tension. When I think about how much effort I put into repression.

River. IR filter held over lens.

Mmmm.

Birthday Sam and Sharon.

River.

Tent. Candle.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: I limited my camping for a few reasons. On of those was how dangerous it seemed to be to lay in my tent at night with nothing to do but think. Those were weird nights. "Sure...think...but don't think too deeply. And DON'T THINK ABOUT THAT. FUCK NOT THAT." It is a weird life when you are avoiding most of it.

More cat food please.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: She lived in my back yard with her kids. She was very insistent in her requests for help.

Camping.

Birthday delivery from my sister.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: OnAir Seattle. My sister is amazing.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: Wires? Alien spider?

Excuse me while I adjust me banjo.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: This was a 1970s(?) 'fake hammon' organ. I never got it to work.

5 rolls 3 tanks.

Yep. Camping.

Washing fog.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: This is one of my favorite photos. It was a spur of the moment shot out of my bedrom window - really. I woke up one morning and it was super foggy and the view into my neighbor's back yard was just awesome.

Bacon.

This paint can lid is creepily smiling at me...

Real Canadian zambonies!

Kiddy hockey!

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: Montreal for OnAir.

Hockey!

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: Montreal for OnAir.

For Jesse!

Notes...

Find the kitty.

This tree is trying to escape the darkness...

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: Weren't we all.

Hmm. There's more than one of me?

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: Unstated was the though "god I hope not for that other person's sake." I knew. I knew.

Some artificial snow.

GT550 engine removed for rebuild.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: That bike has the coolest looking engine.

Damned cat.

My 1960 turntable is resurrected!

Eattle.

...

Carl sagan day!

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: I counted myself as generally 'happy' on this day. Thats why I took the ultra-rare selfie. I look happy, right? Right?! I'm F**ing happy! I even wore a date-relevant t-shirt!

yeah. huh. This was taken in the OnAir Seattle mens room. I remember taking the photo. And deliberately wearing that shirt. I was actually sort of happy at the time. For me then? But...god...that expression. Those eyes. Ow. He was so amazingly sad.

Cold birds.

Rose!

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: OnAir Seattle

Our new developer is board.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: OnAir Seattle

Odd...

GT380!

BMW...

Sad westy...

Perfect fit!

Hmm.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: Foreshadowing...

Don't stand under this thing when it starts spinning!

Honda 160cc.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: Pike Place Market

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: I don't remember why but I was rearranging or cleaning the garage or something. I remember the bikes all needing to go out. Supercub C100, CL70 Scrambler, CL235 Scrabler, TU250X, GT550. I still own all of those except the GT550...that I miss. It sounded SO NICE. But it was top heavy (surprisingly so - I would have real problems keeping it vertical now) and had bad crank seals.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: TU250X

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: Sigrun

The new version of my A380 network simulator now needs SIX nics. Ugh.

The SuperCub lives again.

Collapsing old retaining wall is taking the old fence with it.

More pallet frames.

Comment added by Kiera in 2026: I gave this frame and photo to my mom. And when she passed away it came back to me. It is in my besement storage room. I don't know what to do with it.