Monday, November 23, 2009 - Ashland KY

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
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Life is Strange

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusion most stale and unprofitable.

A Case of Identity, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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