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Sunday January 4th, 2026

Cutting the table rim round Dan Lyke / comment 0

Cutting the table rim round. Big breath, mark the jig for reassembly as close as I can to reconstitute it, but take it in to make sure the glass really fits, then do the recesses on the bottom

hard part of this stage of table Dan Lyke / comment 0

The hard part of this stage of table construction is fitting the glass, and anticipating the depth before I sand things, and how much the flatness of this is going to alter as I assemble it. Getting a bunch of tear out in the joints, have to work around that.

Still need to build the under layer and Dan Lyke / comment 0

Still need to build the under layer and the pedestal, route the top round, and the inset for the glass. So, yeah, most of the table, but... Progress!

Thinking this morning about how many Dan Lyke / comment 0

Thinking this morning about how many people my mom's "alternative" healthcare beliefs and advocacy have killed, how I'll always be trying to excise those roots from my own thinking, and what I owe her, and my sisters, in familial peace and continued interactions.

Had lunch today with a Trump and Musk Dan Lyke / comment 0

Had lunch today with a Trump and Musk supporter who is, on a steady diet of YouTube, remarkably uninformed. It's going to have to get bad enough to affect people like him (he'll be dead first) before it turns. We have a long way to go.

Saturday January 3rd, 2026

Found an old 250GB SSD to be a boot Dan Lyke / comment 0

Found an old 250GB SSD to be a boot disk for this hand me down 96G dual Xeon machine. Realized that the last time I had a machine with this low a storage to RAM ratio it was a 143k floppy drive on a 64k Apple ][+.


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