Status:
So I may have made a mistake but I guess I was sick of resting and not feeling any better for it so I went into the shed today and spent a not insignificant amount of time flattening a piece of wood using this setup.
And by the end of it my arms were sore-in-a-good-way, I didn’t have that tense ringing in my head and my mood this evening is not too bad actually. Now, the proof will be over the next 24-48 hours. If I get a post-exertion crash then I fucked up. And if I don’t, then I guess I didn’t?
Thinking back to the occupational therapist meeting on Friday there was a lot of talk about doing things that were restorative and I think that’s my next challenge. To find those sorts of activities that stay close to my physical baseline but which help me feel like I’m actually alive.
The setup is a very crude router sled. (This is a significantly less crude one which I may attempt to build.) The idea is it holds the router at a fixed height above the slab of wood. The router has a spinning cutting bit at its base and as you slide it up and down it removes any wood above your fixed height. It didn’t work perfectly, of course, because it’s just four scraps of wood screwed together and I’ve never done it before, but it did flatten the wood fairly evenly. A bit of sanding and I’ll have half a table top.
Reading:
- Bob Mould: ‘When Cobain died, I pulled the plug – there was nothing worth saving’ — Beaster was a seminal record for me at the time.
- Worse on purpose — “Corporate autopsies on the brands you trust. Who bought them, who gutted them, and what’s still worth buying." So far backpacks, glasses and power tools.
- Unsung @ 250 - Goals and principles — I just started following this blog so it’s a little odd to get a reflective meta-post but I enjoyed this statement of intent. I’ve just passed 6 months of daily posting here and would like to do something similar.
Bamboozling:
Watching:
- Massive Attack, Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground — review
- Livestream of the peregrine falcons nesting in Birmingham University’s clock tower — Just a mile or so away from us.