Field notes
On tillering wood
You take a little off, you shoot it, you take a little more off. Every stave has its own opinion about how it wants to bend, and arguing with it just breaks the bow.
A workshop and life log
ZeroDrek
This is where I keep track of what I'm building, breaking, and slowly getting better at — home network runs gone sideways, hand-tooled leather armor, a longbow tillered board by board, and whatever the garden refuses to do this year. No polish, just the log.
On the bench
All projects →- ACTIVE Leather scale cuirass Tooling the scales to assemble a ranger cuirass for ren faire.
- ACTIVE Longbow build Tillering a stave in time for deer season.
- PAUSED Garage insulation & drywall Waiting on a weekend that isn't miserable to work in.
- DONE Home network rewire Ran proper ethernet from the garage router — no more Wi-Fi excuses.
Latest musings
All musings →Field notes
Why the old consoles still feel better
Not nostalgia — or not only nostalgia. There's something about a cartridge you can hold that a game library never quite replaces. ModRetro's M64 brings that back, better than ever.