Thank you to all the folks who have sent emails inquiring about the lack of posts here on the blog recently. I appreciate your thoughts and concern. It has been awhile since I last posted, and it was not by choice, at least for part of that time. My family and I were on vacation the last week of April, which was a nice break from the daily grind. However, on the day we returned home (April 28th) I began to feel somewhat under the weather. By the 29th, I was full blown miserable. Just trust me when I say that you don’t want to get whatever it was I had. It’s been almost three weeks now and I’m still not 100% yet, so I haven’t been spending too much time on physical activity. Also, with my wife and kids also sick (you know how it goes in a house with kids; one person gets something and it spreads throughout the household), the extent of my physical activity has been just trying to maintain a minimal level of chaos around the homestead. There’s been no shop time since early April. So I apologize for the lack of content recently,...
