Adam the HipNerd ⁽³¹⁾

For our 25th wedding anniversary, my wife tried to fold an origami heart for every day we'd been married. She got about half way, before her hands gave out. The hearts were sitting around in different containers, most in a shopping bag in our closet.

See Anchoring a Canopy to My Driveway The canopy material that came with the Harbor Freight canopy disintegrated after about a year in the elements. I bought a new one, which also only lasted about a year. Not knowing what else to do, I bought…

In 2022, a friend from church asked me to make this cajon as a Christmas present for her grandson who plays in a band called Driftone. They are still gigging, and I've been told this cajon gets regular use on reggae tunes.

I found a beat up bass drum by the side of the road and brought it home. I peeled off the old wrap, removed the rust from the existing hardware, bought new hardware as needed, and installed new heads. I was considering some fancy glittery/holographic/color-changing…

My wife asked for a table to keep next to her chair in the bedroom. I (of course) had to make it complicated. I came up with the tesseract idea pretty quickly, but it took me about six months of experimenting to figure out the…