I was recently in Las Vegas for work, and stayed at The Venetian [hotel].  While the hotel is technically owned and operated by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, it’s also an Intercontinental Alliance resort. Overall, the hotel was fantastic, and immaculately decorated.  This is going to sound funny, but at one point, I stopped an employee [...]

We picked up a few things at Ikea this weekend and had to get a bit creative to get it home… Turns out there’s only about 6 feet between the back of the front seats, and the right-side rear seat doesn’t leave a 28″ opening when it’s laid down…  Hooray for ratchet straps! It turned [...]

Jason notes that I forgot to post a photo of the other Mendel parts I’ve been building for the MakeryMendel.  Below are photos of a stainless steel heater tube (the one that I didn’t ruin by welding a drillbit to the inside) as well as the “order form” that Brandon sent me. His drawings aren’t [...]

Brandon is at it again, demanding more custom parts for the Makery Mendel. A bit of lathing (is that a word?) was in order tonight, turning a rectangular scrap of Delrin into a hot-end bushing for the upcoming 3D printer. The operations were: Hacksaw off a square chunk of Delrin Mill flat the rough-cut surface Drill [...]

Last week, I read an article on Unplggd about a guy who took,  photos of the insides of people’s fridges.  I’ve always figured that the contents of our fridge are fairly unique (lots of pre-staged food, for example) so I thought I’d take a quick snap of our fridge and commit it to the Internet for [...]

As anyone following this site (or talking to me in real life) lately knows, we’re just finishing up a reflooring project, which has expanded to what I’ve jokingly referred to as House 2.0. It started with the floor, and just kept going… Pantry painting, a work counter in the pantry, toilet repair, Furniture rearranging in [...]

Here’s just a few quick photos from our flooring project (wherein we’re replacing all the flooring on our main level), in no particular order. Once we get the furniture and stuff put back together, there’ll be more.

I went to Lowes last week to pick up a piece of countertop for a project and snapped this photo of how it ended up loaded in my car.  The countertop is 6 feet long and 24″ wide, but I was pretty sure it would fit in my Jetta. Since it was raining when I [...]