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Work hard for fun!
Jul. 27th, 2009 10:10 amI sure do work a lot to have fun. Heh.
Spent most of my free time the past few days doing art projects of various sorts.
The apartment managers cut down the bush in front of our living room window last week and I was rather upset about it and it looked ugly, but Stacey and I already had a project we were doing in the yard to make it look nicer so we redesigned slightly and (thanks to a small bonus at work and some good lumber carelessly thrown in the dumpsters) were able to make things look rather nice. So that's groovy.
I all but finished putting together my solar oven and gave it a better test. Appears I can heat things to about 2.1x air temperature. At 78 degrees outside, I was getting 165 in my dutch oven. Low temp on a crock pot is between 165 and 176. High is between 180 and 200. I'll easily surpass those in the 115 air temp at Burning Man. So now my plan is to make several meals between now and then cooked in my dutch oven in my regular oven at 170 and practice making some good meals.
Saturday, Stacey and I swapped our car battery for a large marine battery to use as the storage for our power system at Burning Man this year. Would have been easy but the battery was a fair bit larger and required buying some new cables and re-routing a few things. Everything is back together and running now though. :)
Finally, of course, I continued to work on the forest panel of our tent... And work and work and work and work. I think I'll be done in another day or two. One can hope at least. Also, a big fat raspberry to Michael's and Aaron Brothers. I ran out of airbrush medium yesterday at about 5PM. Made a mad dash on my bicycle to Michaels (nearest store) and they were out, so I bombed to Aaron Brothers and they don't even carry it. I was skeptical I could make it to University Art (several miles away) before they closed at 5:30. *sigh* I wish there were a decent art supply store closer to my house.
And that's my exciting weekend. weeeeee
Spent most of my free time the past few days doing art projects of various sorts.
The apartment managers cut down the bush in front of our living room window last week and I was rather upset about it and it looked ugly, but Stacey and I already had a project we were doing in the yard to make it look nicer so we redesigned slightly and (thanks to a small bonus at work and some good lumber carelessly thrown in the dumpsters) were able to make things look rather nice. So that's groovy.
I all but finished putting together my solar oven and gave it a better test. Appears I can heat things to about 2.1x air temperature. At 78 degrees outside, I was getting 165 in my dutch oven. Low temp on a crock pot is between 165 and 176. High is between 180 and 200. I'll easily surpass those in the 115 air temp at Burning Man. So now my plan is to make several meals between now and then cooked in my dutch oven in my regular oven at 170 and practice making some good meals.
Saturday, Stacey and I swapped our car battery for a large marine battery to use as the storage for our power system at Burning Man this year. Would have been easy but the battery was a fair bit larger and required buying some new cables and re-routing a few things. Everything is back together and running now though. :)
Finally, of course, I continued to work on the forest panel of our tent... And work and work and work and work. I think I'll be done in another day or two. One can hope at least. Also, a big fat raspberry to Michael's and Aaron Brothers. I ran out of airbrush medium yesterday at about 5PM. Made a mad dash on my bicycle to Michaels (nearest store) and they were out, so I bombed to Aaron Brothers and they don't even carry it. I was skeptical I could make it to University Art (several miles away) before they closed at 5:30. *sigh* I wish there were a decent art supply store closer to my house.
And that's my exciting weekend. weeeeee
