2017 . . . The Year of Making?

I had made some half-hearted attempts to start toward "wood working" last year, but nothing came of it.  The main hang-up was some time before my half-start I had heard about this great system of modular design, and that was really all I was interesting in learning about when I set my goal to have "intermediate skill" in woodworking -- I wanted to be able to build bookshelves and work benches and the like.  However, I had lost the name of the system and could not find relocate where I had read about it in spite of several attempts.

Well, I finally stumbled upon the term, and I think I may never be looking back.

It is called Grid Beam.  I am going to make a winter Solstice gift for myself out of the book How to Build With Grid Beam.  With that I should be able to gumption-up to get my projects started, including, I think, a windmill.

There's an old video which gives some context for the process, and there are just so many thought-and-emotion provoking images of what is possible to made 3-D lived spaces.


Bonus

Jacob at Early Retirement Extreme on bootstrapping tools.  This is something I am very interested in as I keep moving to be a resilient Renaissance Man, but it is for more motivating to build some *big* stuff first.  And so that's where I will start.

Monthly Update -- October

Mind

The biggest thing is still working on Spanish.  Early in the month, I started working more on watching videos in Spanish.

I must confess I've down less reading in Spanish and more listening to Spanish and vocabulary study.  I certainly will not be hitting a million words by New Years.  That would have wrecked my life.

Spirit

I saw once again how easy it is go too hard after a goal.  To me the largest part of "spirit" is balance.  October gives some of the truly perfect days of the year, and to not enjoy them borders on a sin.

Body

A great deal of walking.  Usually listening to Spanish audio recorded while I watch videos.