If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll never be ready.
You will fabricate all manner of excuses to justify waiting until you’re ready. You’ll not try, or learn, or pursue, or just do.
Because, you’re not ready yet.
No, in fact, the world isn’t ready yet.
The concept of being ready is an excuse. Never make an excuse.
Try.
Pursue.
Achieve.
Do.
I built a trap door.
This was the last of the flooring project.
The trap door in the master closet — not an accurate phrase because it’s most definitely not an actual trap — is access to the crawl space under the house. It was just a bit of carpet slapped onto a not-quite-square floor cut-out. But, having upgraded the floors from carpet to laminate, also providing a finished trap door was needed.
No trip-hazards and nothing to get in the way: wood floor secured atop the not-quite-square cut-out, some reinforcement around it, a continuous hinge, and a flush trap-door pull mortised into the surface.
I’ll still need to sort out the interior trim and possibly add a compression damper to hold it open and limit dropping it.
But, for now, I think I’ve earned this.
You’ve been thrown from a horse.
What matters is that you get back on.
Not clear?
It doesn’t matter that you’re going slow.
What matters is that you keep going.
I’ve had this for several years. I made it maybe seven or eight years ago in Casper, WY, just because.
Fast-forward to today and it seemed the cats had grown tired of my mug.
Cat-holes.
Nine years ago, perhaps… back when my fur was mostly red:
I’ll need to see about either throwing a new one or just selecting and glazing a replacement.
Already said it once…gonna say it again: Cat-holes.
…if you want things inconsistent.
Automation ensures repeatability.
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If you have a manual process, that you want to do manually — because reasons — you may be able to do it somewhat identically 10 or 100 or even 10,000 times. But if that process changes (it will), or you get forgetful (you will), or you make a simple mistake (you will), or die (going to happen), then it’s most certainly not repeatable.
Also, a few words on “reasons” — they’re quite often just excuses and justifications for remaining static.
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the rest of me 