[Recent runs: Monday 2/2: 2.5 miles; Wednesday 2/4: 2.5 miles; Saturday 2/7: 4.5 miles]
I’ve been neglecting my blog as you’ve probably noticed. But recently I suffered a minor tragedy that may end up bring me back here more often.
My Coros running watch went crazy last week, stuck in some kind of continuous scrolling mode. And the control/button for scrolling is no longer responsive. So I think that watch is dead.
I need to research the Coros repair program and whether I want to send it in. Possibly I could get a new watch. Or maybe I should take this opportunity to quit depending on my GPS running watch and just go back to the way I had been operating.
And the use for this blog was originally based on keeping track of my runs. But the watch included an app on my phone which tracked the most recent runs and that kind of helped me slide by without doing blog posts.
I’ve been doing my morning YouTube program nearly every day around 5:30 am, lasting until 6-6:15 am depending on how engrossed I get with the conversation. That has not been a replacement for this blog, but filling a similar role for me.
I want to continue doing that but maybe do this also on my running days and talk about projects and trips and whatnot.
Speaking of projects, I am doing a bit of work with my rudimentary lathe I received as a gift awhile back. Moving my workbench from Columbus to this new house, it fell over in the uhaul trailer and landed on it’s nose which didn’t bother the workbench but it broke the wood-dowel handle on the carpenter’s vice on the front. (The vice is heavy and makes the bench a bit unstable when it is bouncing around on a uhaul trailer.) So I found a piece of straight grained wood in the firewood pile that was left by the former house owners and I’ve been trying to turn down a replacement vice handle. My lathe tools are not very good. And the wood is hard, I think it may be hickory.
The first one I tried I got quite a bit into it and discovered it had cracking right through the middle of the rod shape. So I recently started over with another piece. This time I shaved it down a bit with a plane before putting it in the lathe. That should help get me closer to round and avoid most of the out of balance cutting.
It is going slow. And I’m making a lot of chips and sawdust.