Alllllll right. Right after I posted my last update on why I wasn't working on the Lotus and how I was excited to start work on my brake system, my bathroom failed in its duties of managing water appropriately. Bathrooms really are for having water come in in specified locations, and exiting in other specified locations while carrying away something. My tile tub surround was not a specified location to have water exit
Demoed a bathroom down to studs, rebuilt a bathroom. I had pros do the drywall and tile, but most of the rest was redone by me. I had a bunch of friends help with demo, which was fun.
Adding to the stress of having our only bathroom under construction, during that whole process, I was interviewing, accepting a job offer and prepping to move to a small automotive company (you know the one) in the San Francisco bay area.
The last bead of caulk was drying when I drove south. Oh well, my tenants will have a nice bathroom to use.
I totally forgot to actually get done-done final pictures with the trim up.
So, I'm now renting in a land far away. I did upgrade the size of my garage to a 2 car, but the infrastructure isn't nearly as what I had (no compressed air manifold, one electrical outlet instead of 6). I'll make do for the time being and get to work on the car.
The job's relocation package allowed for two cars to be shipped down, one of which could have been the Lotus project. Unfortunately, their shipper wanted an enclosed trailer, which was far too much money for the allowance. A friend and former colleague now lives down here, and he was driving his truck up to Portland anyway last month, so he rented a U-haul trailer and brought it back down. That's service!
I also build some shelves to get crap off the floor as well. It'll eventually reside on the wall, but for now, it's in the middle of the garage waiting for some wall work to be done.I also have a call into an electrician to get some more 110V outlets and a NEMA 14-50 plug installed for EV charging. I'm going to just run nylon air line for semi trucks between my compressor and my hose reel. That'll be good enough for now and not involve a whole lot of installation.
I'm going out there as soon as I finish this post to do some more work on getting the place ready for more fabbing.
Feel free to arrange a time to stop by if you're in the Sunnyvale, CA area.
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