Saveitforparts

I’ve been working off and on to finish this little sailboat hull I picked up on Craigslist. So far I’ve waterproofed it and built seats and a mast step. Have also bought parts for a mast and various other additions. I’m tempted to name this the SS Shoebox. So far it’s doing a good job of taking up half my friend’s garage…

I think the sculptor has captured their essence quite well, you can almost see them looking back at you… longing to run free in the wild with their styrofoam brethren.

What have I been up to lately?

I bought and modified a storage trailer (on the projects page).

I bought ANOTHER boat (small kayak, shown below):

And we’ve been playing Settlers of Catan every week:

Thanks to Craigslist and some guy not having enough space in his garage, I now have yet another project boat! This one is a homemade sailing design, somewhat boxy but pretty stable and roomy. It’s partly done but still needs interior waterproofing, seats, gunwales, and rigging! I actually got this about a month ago, but haven’t had time to do any work on it. I’m also trying to get rid of some other boat stuff like a project outboard, so have been busy with that as well.

Speaking of boats, I have moved all (or most) of the content on my sailboat over to its new home on this server.

Megan the pirate!

I dug a few pictures off my cell phone recently. I’m too lazy to sort these into actual pages or anything, or even to put them on Facebook (now that’s lazy!)

OhYes!

The Monarchmobile!

Rachael's cat Wobbler after we caught him as a stray kitten in her garage.

Even Catan gets boring sometimes.

Don't do drugs?

More plywood kayak construction

I miss my sailboat 😦

As a former commercial salmon crewmember living in the Midwest, I get asked frequently, “Is it like the Deadliest Catch?” (The TV show). My response is usually something along the lines of the following, which I sketched during a particularly boring class a while back:

I should start my own webcomic, I have literally several jokes about fishing! Also I can’t draw very well, which means I’d make a great web cartoonist! BTW, I’ve also heard salmon trolling referred to as “The Stonedest Catch”, Drunkiest Catch”, etc. I’d usually just read 5 trashy sci-fi books per day to cope with the boredom of “The Drag”, but some fishermen turn to, ahem, “other” solutions 🙂

Here we go, switching over to the WordPress version of Saveitforparts.com…. hopefully this all works, stay tuned!

Incidentally, I’ve “sort of” migrated my photo page to this site, and also updated the project pages on computers and potato cannons here, they’re slightly different than the old versions.  I’ll be working to get my other content moved over from the old host bit by bit.

I am currently in Mariposa, CA, a town whose police blotter is so ridiculous that it’s apparently been featured on Leno. The highlights from recent issues:

•There was a horrible odor in a house on Buckeye Road.

•There were rocks on Highway 140.

•A red-tailed hawk was in a house on Yosemite Oaks Road.

•A fence was vandalized in Coulterville.

•A tree was across Triangle Road.

•A lawn was on fire on Red Cloud Mine Road.

•There was a cow problem on Highway 49 South.

•A person was reportedly disoriented on Indian Peak Road.

•Someone found a tent on McMahon Road.

•A burning smell was reported on Coyote Court.

The link to the current issue is here: http://www.mariposagazette.com/current/For_the_Record

In case anyone is interested, these are the webcomics I read on a regular basis:

XKCD
Dresden Codak
Mitch Clem
Sluggy Freelance
Nukees
Freefall
SSDD
Penny-arcade
Questionable Content
Overcompensating
Diesel Sweeties
Goats
Ornery Boy
Comet 7
Girl Genius
Buck Godot (yes I know it’s “over”)
Dr. McNinja
The Zombie Hunters
Freak Angels
Everyday Decay
Digger

I’m working on migrating my site over to WordPress, it’s going slowly. There might not be much content here for a while, and/or it may be patchy.

Until it’s done, all the old stuff is still at www.saveitforparts.com (and yeah, some of it is totally outdated!)

The hard link, for when I shift the domain, is http://www.tc.umn.edu/~emers089/