Musings

It is the classic ADHD renovation cycle: Why does this happen, and how do we get the spark back when unexpected delays derail our rhythm? The Chemistry of the Mid-Project Stall For the ADHD brain, interest is driven by novelty, urgency, and challenge. At the start of a renovation, everything is new and exciting. But … Read more

Last post was the honest admission: we still don’t know if we’re renovating this house for us or for resale, and that question doesn’t seem to be resolving itself. This post is the practical side — how we’re actually making decisions anyway, room by room, on a budget that means this whole project is going … Read more

Somewhere in the last however-many months of this renovation, my wife and I arrived at a question we did not have when we started: are we doing this for us, or are we doing this for whoever buys the house someday? We don’t have an answer. I want to be upfront about that, because most … Read more

We geared up for the weekend. The recurring nightmare—a stubborn sewer backup plaguing the right side of the house—needed a resolution. We decided to take a gamble: tear up the tile and poured quickset on the patio conversion. The goal? Find a buried sewer cleanout, a damp spot, or any physical clue to solve the mystery. We … Read more

We’ve all been there. You’ve finally harnessed that elusive wave of ADHD hyperfocus. The tools are laid out, the music is blasting, the budget is calculated to the cent, and you are ready to conquer the bathroom remodel. Then, you pull back the old drywall and find it: a leaking pipe, ancient knob-and-tube wiring, or … Read more

I mentioned on the homepage that when my eyes need a break from Kubernetes YAML, I transfer that same re-engineering energy into the physical world — remodeling the house, fixing things around the property. What I didn’t mention is that “remodeling” is doing a lot of work in that sentence, because there is no version … Read more