Sage advice. Had I my wits about me I might have followed it, at least to the point of seeing if such assistance is cheap and readily available. I suspect that before too many more years pass I'll be forced to rely on such assistance.

I made the trip yesterday. Left the house circa 0630. Was home before noon. I didn't dawdle at my destination, wanting to be home prior to expected rains with potential storms moving in later in the day. (Those didn't materialize excepting some insignificant rainfall overnight.) Am surprised by the low quality of my new ID photo. I had expected something more modernized than the 1992-issued black-and-photo which graced my old ID. Not only does the new photo remain black-and-white, but is so washed out it looks very like an old 19th century time-worn image, its subject rapidly fading into oblivion. Oh well, so long as it gets the job done I'm content.

The car performed like a champ. Me, I felt rather poorly but survived. (I feel much better today. Go figure.)

I'm glad to have gotten it out of the way, procrastinator that I tend to be.

Now your ID matches your profile avatar? It sounds like you made that long trip in record time; and I'm so glad you have that done and over with now, before the bad weather sets in. Also glad you bounced right back today to feeling better, that is great!

Saved a lot of money with those boards still being usable! Awesome!







WOW! This is amazing! What an Awesome job you and your father did on this shed! It looks fantastic! I want a shed now!

Thanks

We had an old electric building saw which helped to speed up the work with the bords immensely. No need for manual sawing with my carpal tunnel wrists

I've a project that has been postponed far too long . . . reorganizing my computer drives and partitions. They are a mess! It started soon after building my correct computer in 2010, worsened when I had to rebuild my C: partition following unrecoverable Windows corruption last year (and bought an SSD to use as my boot drive in the process), then worsened again this year when I bought another SSD to use as gaming partitions. Beyond partition G: I have little idea of what on those drives, and my partitions go up to W:!!!!! (I'm a long time fan of multiple partitions. But having so many defeats the purpose if you let them go to seed.)

I used to glory in this sort of thing, and not too many years ago might have gotten everything back in shape in a day or two. Nowadays my mind loses focus within minutes so that I have gotten very little done. What I have found thusfar is interesting. For instance, I found four (!) installs of Everquest 2 on as many partitions. The kicker here is that I stopped playing Everquest in 2009, the year before assembling my computer. I found two or three unneeded installs of Oblivion, backups so old they no longer serve a purpose. (I do have a very recent backup that will stay.) I found two redundant Minecraft save directories, which take up a LOT of space. (My most recent Minecraft saves are something like 500mb each!) And so on.

I've deleted most of those unneeded backup copies, but much much more needs to be done. One regrettable mistake has been made. So far as I can tell, while deleting some extra Minecraft game installation directories, I mistakingly deleted the only copy of my first Minecraft install, which contained my earliest screenshots, the only shots of the Hill Fort while its perimeter walls were still under construction. That hurts. Too, I seem to have messed up my Banished install. No biggy there. My saves or safe. I'll just reinstall it once things settle down.

Aw, bless your heart!







Holy Cow!!!!


Maybe you should copy the drive onto one external back-up drive before deleting it so you don't lose anything important again; but can still move forward on that clean-up of your hard drive - which most def sounds needed!

I have thought about getting an external harddrive for a long time but have yet to get around to it. I have the most crucial game stuff saved on two different flashdrives though.

I've got two external drives; one is just 400 gig; the other is a terabyte. They are as easy to use as a thumbdrive, and really don't cost much anymore. Well worth it for the sense of peace knowing I won't lose my data again.

Done and done!!

I still can´t believe we managed to get it done this year!!


I know it may seem strange to have a gap in the wall like that, but it´s very practical.

Yes, of course you need to be able to access without walking around to the back, and the airflow will keep everything fresh in there; but out of the rain or snow pouring down on them.

I love it, and if you could do this so quickly you could build me a small garage ... and finish the sun room that was framed out but never finished ... Gaaaaah, I wish you and your Father could visit !!!!!

Give us premium bird seed and we might show up...

We didn´t have to buy a single board! Sure, some of the boards we used were not in perfect condition but we didn´t use rotten ones, and we even got a few full-lengths left over. It´s awesome

I'll buy you fresh millet !!!!





My birds loved this over any other bird treat I got them, even the honey-seed treats! I used to drive over 30 miles to buy it fresh for them; hand picked the best/fattest stalks of it; and kept it in the refrigerator tray in a plastic baggie so it stayed fresh till the day I gave it to them to eat, lol.

The new shed looks wonderful and it's great that you finished the walling in plenty of time for your tractors to have a nice cozy winter!

Dad and I keep hacking away in the forest


Our winter project, I guess, will be to make new roads on which to drive the tractor and ATV. We´ve never had even close enough to what we need and what with all the changes at the place we´ve decided to finally do something about it. Good thing Dad bought the trailer with the hydraulic crane on it earlier this year

I need a new driveway,

Wish I could help ya..


Full day in the woods again tomorrow. As we have the new little tractor road all figured out, all we have to do is clear some trees and fill in some gaps. But if it´s not windy tomorrow we´ll also make a bonfire and burn some twigs and branches. Camera might document if I remember to bring it along...

I started working on Anchorage Reloaded, a mod that will allow you to revisit (or pre-visit) Anchorage. I was inspired by the Return To Anchorage mod, which was nice, but left a lot to be desired. My goal is to allow the player to travel to Anchorage in current day Fallout time. It is not a sim, so won't have any of the simulation/FPS mechanics like derezzing bodies, health stations, and so on. It will be just like visiting any other part of the Wasteland. The entire thing is completely separate from Operation Anchorage, so you can do it and Anchorage Reloaded in any order, without one affecting the other.

I made a separate world space(s) and cells already. Copying the old ones and renaming them was easy. The hard part is that it broke all the door links between cells. I have been recreating those to put things back together. I have also been removing all the Operation Anchorage quest-related stuff, like activators that set quest events, x-marker headings, and so forth. The same with the simulation ammo, health, and weapon dispensers, etc...

So far it is taking a long time. But I did create a vertibird on the deck of Rivet City to transport the player to Anchorage, and another to take them back. I copied the elevator button from the Washington Monument and stuck it into the side of each vertibird to act as a door between the locations. It looks a little odd, but works perfectly. Now I can take a characters back and forth to test.

Once I am done setting up the world spaces, I'll start populating. Chinese Ghouls are an obvious choice, as are American robots gone mad (like the ones all over the Capital Wasteland). I am thinking wildlife for other areas, like molerats in some of the caves, and feral ghouls. I am also thinking of an American Ghoul living in General Chase's old Headquarters tent, who can act as a vendor and repairman. I'll probably put a sleepable bed/cot in there as well.

You must have made quite a few mods now, SubRosa. Do you keep count on them?



Started to fix up the tractor garage today by adding shelves on which to put boards. Not enough though, will be adding a third shelf on Saturday

I could use some outside shelves! And a shed to house them too!

Sure, let me see, 1, 2, 3... lots. Lots of mods.

Putting up boards? Sounds like a good spot to place some wonderglue, scrap metal, turpentine, fission batteries, and maybe a few tin cans...

Awesome mods, too!

Yeah, that sounds about right


I still very much enjoy the non-attacking/fleeing animals and the ability to summon a spriggan

Yes, and I am not sure if Bethesda didn't copy her idea with the "Animal Friends" perk in FO3 and NV. It is one of my favorites, so is the Witchcraft mod. And I actually like her idea with the Ferryboats better than my Marina mod; (where you had to rent a boat and ride the full tour, but could stop off at four landings along the way and a camp would be set up for you at each stop). SubRosa's Ferryboats, you come across them in the wilderness in your travels and can just use them - that is awesome, and much more realistic than finding boats everywhere that you can't use (like in the vanilla game). That was such a good idea, and keeps the player from swimming across and getting slaughterfish bites.

Update on the tractor garage:


We´ve spent a few days organizing it as we need to fit many boards, steel shelves and a bunch of miscellaneous things in it and pretty soon that space does not feel too big anymore, not that it ever did. All in all we now have two large and one small steel shelf up and no less than four wooden shelves for the boards.
We´ll get rid of some of the boards later that are not too great for anything other than firewood and that´ll free up some space for other things. After all, can´t have empty spaces anywhere, can we?


This year we´ll look into if we can get a smaller car garage up as well that we can use as a workshop. The problem is finding someone who can move it for us and get it into place. Also, money..

Hee! Just make sure that there's still room for Tractor!

We may have to build something new for it!


But it´s by the ´cavator where it really starts to get cramped because there is where we have all the boards. I should take a pic and post; there isn´t much room to mess around with the ´cavator´s arm

As of today we have begun digging in order to lay electricity (preferrably in a cable) from the cottage to the shed.


And that´s it


I forgot to bring the camera but I better do it next time and post some pics. If not, mALX will say it didn´t happen and we really need this to happen!

Pictures or it didn't ... AHA! I see!!!! Make sure one of the pictures shows the shed lit up with that electricity then,

Remember, you'll have to use the clockwork camera until you have that 'leccy stuff in there!

P.S. was the squirrel in the wheel not generating enough power?

Nope

Today Dad and I put up the framework to a 4m x 6m storage tent. It was a bit of a pain at the start but we figured it out. What´s left to do is even out the ground by the pillars, anchor it down and then of course put on the fabric which I think will be a little tricky. The tent is not too high but high enough and we can´t really have ladders against the framework.

We´ll see how difficult it´ll be

And of course I forgot to bring the camera along but I will try to bring it next time, as always


But here´s a pic of where we´ll lay down the cable to the shed! Not quite done as you can see for obvious reasons.

That's one sexy tractor!

I can't get over the excellent jobs you have done building these sheds!!!!! I so wish you were near and could help me add a deck, urk!!! Awesome job, Mirocu!

McB likes it too


Aw, you do me too much honor..

Pic one
Pic two
Pic three

Support poles and anchors were on today´s agenda. We have a few more anchor pieces to jam into the ground and then I guess it´s time for the tent itself. We´re not quite sure though which pieces we should use as anchors, the manual doesn´t specify and it isn´t obvious. I think we might have to make a phone call before we leave home tomorrow.

Wow, great progress mirocu. And mALX is right that your work looks top notch.

Thanks, but the same can´t be said about the tent. It´s up now and looks quite good, but there are flaps on all four corners (along the short sides of the framework) which we cannot fasten because there aren´t any holes and there aren´t any strips or anything else there. We´ll make a call tomorrow but we might have to improvise here. Slightest wind and the flaps starts to rise, can´t have that.

Well, at least we can start to put stuff in and we already have. One compressor and a steel shelf so far. Took pixies but I´m too lazy to upload and post them at the moment

My goodness mirocu, you are one industrious fellow! I'm guilty of a great many sins, but industriousness is not amongst them.

Purely out of necessity, I can assure you



Well, it is quite nice to work on projects with my dad. We don´t always agree on things but we most often have a good time


Edit: Hauled most of the stuff in the car garage over to the tent. Got a few shelves and cupboards up and slammed them full of the same crap garbage stuff as before

You don't do anything halfway, that is for sure! I can't wait to see the tent fully done, and am dying to know the plan for its use! It is most def a huge tent! Impressive, as you always are when you are building! You are an amazing builder!

I can´t take full credit here, Dad is definitely part of this project. But thanks

Here are some pics. Censorship has been added to protect the guilty innocent

Canvas time
Going up
More than halfway there (Whoooa! Living on a prayer!)
Done
We used the trailer as ladder support
First shelves are up

It was a bit of a pain to put the canvas up. It was heavy and kept getting stuck on everything, it even got a small hole in one place. It´s not a disaster though as the canvas is of no-rip design which means if a hole appears it won´t get bigger or tear up the canvas.

The tent is meant as storage for all the bits and bobs from my childhood home, including everything that was in the cellar and garage. There was a ton of stuff and I´m sure most of you can relate

A lot has been moved and the tent is already getting too small. We have to use our brainz and organize it, but that´s actually the most fun part in this project. I love doing that

You should be able to patch that hole, if you need what is inside protected from precipitation/moisture/the elements. Most tent "kits" come with a couple patches for just such an event, but I've never seen a tent quite so big or with such heavy tarp to it!




*mALX puts away visions of the living quarters inside the tent that she had imagined ... *




http://imgur.com/KfeI26T


http://imgur.com/2eUwm9K

Yes, we will patch that hole at some point. There is a glue we can use and the hole is not bigger than the head on a three inch nail so it won´t be much of a bother. The stuff needs protection but we´re not putting anything in that´s actually sensitive to the elements that we must close that hole immediately

In the US now they are laying a 6 millimeter plastic tarp as a moisture barrier on dirt floors of crawl spaces under houses; and you can use them in tents as well as long as they are not laying flat where water will run in on them. They have to be taped up on the sides so water runs under them and not onto them if it goes beneath the tent or crawlspace.

I am spraying a moisture/mold/germ killing spray under my house to kill any microbial germs/etc. down there and then laying the rolled plastic down - taping it up the cement block walls of the crawl space so no more moisture can get into my crawl space from now on, just have to finish pulling the old insulation out of there first. Then I'll put up all new insulation and the crawl space should be immaculate!

That sounds like a good idea, similar to what they use when building garages like the one we built for the tractor. We don´t have it though because Dad didn´t think it was necessary plus I think he wanted to save on time = money. We would have needed it though, but I guess we can live without it.


Awesome! That should do the trick, I imagine

It´s kinda nice that we´re working on these projects. Almost feels like we´re in on this together

Yes, I like hearing about every one of your projects; and especially seeing the pictures. You have inspired some things I want to do around this house, just seeing how you did it at yours. Truth!

Rarely do I get to hear I have inspired anyone to do anything!

Anything good, I mean

Keep at it, mALX!

By the way, Mirocu ... did you recognize this tent?

Just a little pic from today. As I said, the tent quickly became too small


We are gonna start throwing stuff away now, though. We simply can´t keep all the scrap metal and broken chainsaws anymore.

Time for a tent sale! I want the tiny white moosehead hanging on the work bench.

What I'm finding it hard to figure out is where the stuff came from. Do you now have a bunch of empty buildings whose original content got moved? Or is there some humungous heap that never quite appears in any of the pictures?