Rachel’s dad was cleaning out his garage and offered me this rickety workbench. I took it home and built a new top for it out of some salvaged studs from a hundred year old house. I fastened it to the wall and now it’s solid and serviceable.

The honeybees are loving the lavender right now.

Another good one from Cory Doctorow: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp

We have a gooseberry!

Today was launch day for an endowment management system that a group of us have been working on for 18 months—and so far, so good. This is the third such system we’ve built over 20 years because there’s nothing on the market quite like it. Great system, well-managed project, but I’m glad it’s over!

It’s been a frustrating few days trying to get the finish right on this leaf of my in-laws’ table—and I still don’t have it right. But I’ve learned a lot more about finishes and techniques so 🤷‍♂️

A clarification on what I posted earlier: I am not saying that everyone is right about the object of their anger or anxiety. Obviously there are a lot of crazy ideas out there. But that anger and anxiety has its source in a correct evaluation that too many things are too consequential right now.

The stakes are too high for everything now. This is a direct consequence of centralization, efficiency, economies of scale–all terms describing the same phenomenon. Why are so many people so angry? Is it because they’re irrational and emotional? No. It’s because they rightly perceive the stakes.

Adam Savage’s lathe display (source)

Rachel just harvested this huge pile of lettuce from one end of our raised beds and it didn’t even make a dent. It’s salad season!