So for a while now I’ve been looking at getting a new phone. I don’t have a phone plan, or provider or contract so what am I supposed to do? I use Google Fi and I brought my unlocked from Metro to Fi when Fi was a much better deal. But it’s mostly cheaper than anything else and I own the phone outright so it’s easier all around. But I HATE spending $1100+ for the latest flagship phone. So Fi had the Fi compatible (multi cell antenna) S20 Ultra. It was $800 and they’re giving me $200 back for my Note 9 which is in mint condition. so $600 for a new gen behind 5g phone. But it has the updated camera array which is what I was going for.

I had decided that the camera is what I was paying closest attention to, it’s the only thing I use that I want top of the line and I wasn’t going to change to Apple. The specs on the camera are pretty potent:

As much as I don’t want to admit it I’m a bit of a pack rat. It comes from wanting to have things close at hand I believe. That and not wanting to have to reacquire said part/tool/whatever. This does however become an issue when it comes to things like computer cables. I finally have started trying to breakdown what everything is and classify and compartmentalize and store it. So for example, I collect all the USB type A to USB Micro cables, wrap them up individually and put them in a gallon storage bag. The contents of that bag and many others are on a spreadsheet, actually a google sheet and can be accessed from my phone, tablet and computer and the contents entered into the spreadsheet by voice recognition. While it does take some time with the computer component aspect, it works great, but now I have a gallon storage bag with 10 cell phone charger cables… And I’ve just started. So how many is enough? Don’t know but I’ve become very liberal about disposing of ones I’ve come across that annoy me by not having a good click when I connect them. Progress is slow but sure, as long as my cataloging exceeds the input of new objects, we’re heading in the right direction.

Thanks to Sandy and Shelly for the assistance, the pavers that served as a makeshift work area for the shed construction have been picked up and stacked into two huge stacks. Now the grass can start to regrow. This marks the end of one project and ready for the next.

So there are pictures here and there about the pavers that were laid out to provide a work area for building the shed. Well now it’s time to pick them back up so I can run the skid steer through without turning them into rubble. There was probably a better way to do this but I’m paying for it, the way my wrists have been hurting isn’t a good thing. But slowly but surely it’ll get done.

As thrilled as I was at the shed being ‘completely done’ the glory was, sadly, short lived. It began to dawn on me how much work laid ahead to actually make use of the shed. Cleaning off and cleaning and moving the shelving and everything on it from the garage is a daunting task. Made more cumbersome by the fact that I’m not allowing anything in the shed that hasn’t been thoroughly cleaned. The things that were in the old shed didn’t fare extremely well with a coating of dust on pretty much everything and even some damaging rust to the shelving units in there. But a wire cup brush on the power drill and some spray paint and they’re almost as good as new. The press-board shelves that have all but fallen apart have been replace by scrap T1-11 cut to size for a durable and heavy duty shelf. Slowly but surely it’s taking shape.

So I wasn’t sure if/when I was going to put in a loft but the difficulty in raising the roof seems to necessitate it. Here’s to building on up!

I’ve got all the cross members for the floor frame in place and screwed into the frame. I used saddle brackets for ALL of the cross pieces. Overkill and an extra $150 in materials but I guess it’s better to over build. Let’s face it, you can’t go back and put them in later.

I finally got to use the chop saw for what it’s here for. And I managed to screw around and bend the fence… Grrrrr. That’s not fun. I managed to get it somewhat back to strait, it was after the floor frame was cut so we’ll see how it does on the walls next week. Anyways here’s the progress.

So I’m having to pour pilings and was somewhat disheartened to find that an 80lb bag of concrete has exactly .6 sq/ft volume…
2 8in x 4ft tubes will take 2.8 sq/ft so 5 bags. Yay science!!