Staining red oak for a slat wall around our fireplace. Hope to get it installed this week.

Was going to try to get the rust off my father’s crappy old hand plane (since restoring it would get me out of having to buy a hand plane of my own for now), but it doesn’t look like I’m going to get that far this week. Spent a couple of hours moving books around to clear some shelf space instead.

Edit: Turned out that my actual DIY for the weekend was fixing my computer mouse, which suddenly developed a tendency to jump the cursor randomly to the upper-left corner of the screen. Turns out that it’s possible to kill a laser mouse with cat hair if you get enough of it wedged into the little opening on the bottom of the mouse that the laser shines through. And here I thought fluff was only a failure mode for ball mice.

That doesnt sound fun at all. Would a drain snake work?

Edit: responding to @jarfil@beehaw.org. Sorry, still getting used to the Connect app.

Going to be resealing our countertops today. Shouldn’t be too complicated, but it’s my first time doing it so we’ll see.

I’m still building the addition to my wood framed green house, still have a couple of weekends to go till its done.

Reattaching my towel rack to my wall. It was held in with drywall anchors but those have failed so will either repatch and reattach or glue it back on. Depends on how done with it I am

was going to make a small garden in a wood box on the deck of my apartment, but its getting unusually hot i think i’ll put it off for a little longer

Installing a new sink and dishwasher, here’s to not flooding the place. Probably.

Starting the refinish job on our front porch. Got my broom and sander and some dry weather in the forecast, hopefully it’ll be finished before the next storm rolls through!

I need to tighten the bolts on the kids toilet, lol. Otherwise just running a ton of errands (none DIY-related).

I did get around to the hand plane this week. Most of the rust and grot is off and now I need to lap the sole as best I can.

If there’s still a bit of rust left somewhere . . . I don’t actually care. It’s a 1970s Canadian-made Stanley Craftsman plane, which means that it’s effectively worthless. I just want it in good enough shape not to leave rust streaks on whatever I’m trying to plane. In five years or so, I expect I’ll either have given up on woodworking or bought a higher-quality replacement.

(I also need to fix a chair, which I didn’t quite get to today.)

I recently finished my butcher block desk and enjoyed it so much I asked for a bunch of wood working tools as birthday gifts. I don’t usually care about my birthday or gifts, but it’s always an ordeal for my family because they insist. So this year I finally told them to get the wood working basics.

I’m eyeing my second project now and trying not to tell myself that it should be the new coffee table that we’ve needed for the past 3 years. That feels like a more advanced project, but it’s so tempting.

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Recoating a fire pit with high heat enamel. I was dumb, bought a new fire pit without a cover and it got suuuuper rusty. I almost had it finished when I started yesterday but luck would have it I ran out of paint for the last coat.

Should be ripping out Windows and getting Fedora Workstation working on a new machine. I’ll probably start working on installing the AI tools I used to justify the new rig. I’m halfway thinking about modifying my laptop bed stand to add more cooling capacity built in, but it kinda depends on how hot it gets with the GPU at full tilt.

I also need to make some progress getting my desk/hobby electronics workstation back to useful conditions and reinstall all of my lighting.