Furniture moving wrap-up

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Ben

I finally finished hooking up the furnace which is now under the moved dinette bench. Two of the ducts now terminate in the front face, and the third comes out in the bedroom:

In addition to the two furnace outputs, I had to install a grill to finish the hole I cut in the bench to act as the air intake:

More digitizing

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Ben

In an effort to get rid of more stuff, I’ve been converting the 100 or so software CDs I have to ISO files which can be mounted as a virtual CD as needed. A one-Terabyte drive can hold about 1,500 CDs.

Pedaling away

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Ben

I had the realization today that our year of mobile living doesn’t have to be limited to travelling by RV. Trish and I have talked about doing a family bike tour a few times, so why not start our year with a bike tour? I’d much rather bike tour the Desert Southwest than the Northeast, but doing the tour at the beginning has the advantage of not having to take all the camping gear, etc. in the RV. Not to mention that there’s nothing like tent living for a few weeks to make a person appreciate the palace on wheels that is our 26-foot RV.

Another thing do ponder while I’m prepping the RV or triaging my filing cabinet…

Or we could do that, too.

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Ben

While cleaning out the filing cabinet, I came across the folder marked “maps”, and found a map for canoeing the Minnesota Boundry Waters. I was about to put it back in the folder with all the other “someday” maps, when I realized that “someday” is only 28 weeks away! We could do that too!

Not exactly a profound realization, but there was wonderful sense of freedom when I understood that anything is possible, and everything is on the table.

Cabinets and drawers

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Ben

Having moved one of the seats from the dinette to the sofa’s former location, I had to reframe the seat to accommodate the RV’s furnace which was now underneath it, as well as redo the front face of the seat since the old version of the seat was built into the wheel well on the right side of its face. Fortunately, I had some veneer to spare, as the platform that supported the sofa had the same veneer as its upper surface.

Here’s the completed bench:

Trish also mentioned that she would like the drawers under the sink removed in favor of more cabinet space, so I pulled out the shelves to take a look:

The “fun” never ends!