Monday, November 23, 2009 - Ashland KY
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Overview of new workshop closed for travel, November 23, 2009
Let me introduce to you my new metalworking/leatherworking/maybe-even-woodworking (heaven forbid) foldaway travelling studio workshop and storeroom. This is an evolving project and this basic framework should give me some good bones to build on.
What do we see here?
We see a new tool chest in place of the old overcab mattress and fold-up cab access panel (the mattress got recycled into a simplified sofa bed in my study).
We see a solid wall panel separating my new studio from the dinette. In this wall is the old generator control panel and a new HPV-22B controller for my new solar battery charging system. Above those is a sliding access panel to leather storage behind. Not visible is a new 120 volt receptacle and 12 volt switched jacks in the forward end of the dinette overhead cabinet. You can see dangling a couple of 12 volt LED lights I'm experimenting with that plug into those switched jacks.
Tomorrow I'll reveal the magically transformative heart of this project.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Ashland KY
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #2638, 12504 U.S. Route 60, Ashland, KY 41102 - (606) 929-9510
- This Walmart Supercenter is about a mile north of I-64 (exit 185) on KY 180.
- Good level parking
- Verizon cell phone service - very good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - very good signal
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Skepticism is Helpful
If you want to notice things that seem wrong, you'll find a degree of skepticism helpful. I take it as an axiom that we're only achieving 1% of what we could. This helps counteract the rule that gets beaten into our heads as children: that things are the way they are because that is how things have to be. For example, everyone I've talked to while writing this essay felt the same about English classes-- that the whole process seemed pointless. But none of us had the balls at the time to hypothesize that it was, in fact, all a mistake. We all thought there was just something we weren't getting.
The Age of the Essay, Paul Graham, September 2004