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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    Lazy day today, but I managed to do a little work to fix up an old bike I bought for my youngest granddaughter. It's seen better days but as far as I can tell it's mechanically sound. For now she'll just be riding up and down a very quiet short road with training wheels, so there's only so much...
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    Just How Big is the AI Bubble?

    I rather like the saying that AI is the means by which wealth gains access to skill while ensuring skill has no access to wealth.
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    It's nice here too but today it's pretty foggy. The shirts I usually wear for exercising are gray so I'll need to either dig out my bright yellow shirt, or wait until the fog lifts.
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    Four more bowls today. Two live edge from some hemlock I had left lying around. I still don't care much for hemlock but a sharp bowl gouge gives it a halfway decent finish. Then I cut a janky offcut from a maple burl in half and made two bowls out of it, one of which was a very small bowl. It...
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    Yesterday I got a long run in, I'd been wanting to for a while but some days my system just isn't geared up for it. Anyway, yesterday was the day and afterwards I took a nap. Then in the evening I decided that rather than making endless bowls out of hemlock that I don't particularly care for...
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    Three new bowls today. One from a big chunk of oak, then a smaller one from a spare piece of catalpa I forgot I had. This afternoon I cut a log into four bowl blanks - it's hemlock so not something I'm fond of turning, but as a sacrificial piece I could test some limits. I managed to turn it...
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    I made a huge bowl out of a chunk of maple. Today I was replacing insulation in my daughter's house. Six bags of trash and one side of the house re-insulated. I replaced nasty old fiberglass that was once R13, with nice new fiberglass that's R19.
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    I took about 80 gallons of shavings down to the compost heap at the end of the yard. My daughter took another 30 gallons or so. That was yesterday, today I've got another 20 gallons from making more stuff. Today I made four bowls and a tall slender tree from an offcut that nearly ended up in the...
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    What Book are you reading right now?

    I just finished up Jeremiah. Parts of it felt like a slog, parts were just what I needed at the time.
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    I figured I'd err a little too low and shift stuff rather than err too high and not sell anything. Now I can experiment, maybe nudging some prices up a little.
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    I sold some wooden trees, including a couple of bigger ones that now I'm wishing I'd sold at a slightly higher price. I'll make more of those. It's good to have a few things that are cheap as well as other stuff with higher prices.
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    I only had one snowman so made some more. Now I have eight of them. I've made them so they are very similar, I didn't want them to be identical because I wanted them to look like they came off a lathe rather than a CNC machine.
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    All true, but coming in cold I have no points of reference as to what the market will bear. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have some cash in hand to tell me what people are willing to pay. If not, I'll have a point of reference that whatever numbers I guessed need to go down a little
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    It's often hard for me to know how to price something - there's a figure based on how long it took me to make it and another figure based on the perspective of someone who doesn't have a basement full of tools to make them. If you have a lathe and a modicum of skill they are easy to make but if...
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    I took a break from the lathe because I managed to misjudge where the edges of a spinning piece were and smashed my finger into the toolrest. That didn't feel good. Now I'm back on it but more cautiously. My space at the local craft fair is confirmed and I have a couple of dozen bowls to try...
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