House In Order, day 9

[cjsmith]

Finished the physical stuff for my car voltmeter. Electrical connections later.

For at least a year, every time I've walked into my office I've seen the parts for that thing and felt guilty. Guess I should have stored it out of sight.

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yes, there is that. Deciding what to do with an ancient unfinished project isn't easy. This one showed every sign of never getting done AND it was nagging me whenever I walked into the room, so maybe storing it out of sight would have been an improvement!

My enormous breakthrough was that I could use a cardboard box to hold everything together. I'd been trying to build something out of scrap wood, which is hard for a variety of stupid logistical reasons. (F'rex, the saw is stored on a shelf that's unreachable when my car is in the garage -- thus it's unreachable any time I'm home. No surprise I never made much progress with wood.) It still took a while to carve out all the holes I needed in the cardboard, but at least that part is DONE.