by davidcrilly | Jul 9, 2026 | Musings, Reno
It is the classic ADHD renovation cycle: Week 1: Hyperfocus is at 100%. You demo the kitchen, buy all the supplies, and work until 2:00 AM. Week 2: A parts delay occurs. You have to wait five days for the tile to arrive. Week 3: The tile arrives, but the magic is...
by davidcrilly | Jul 6, 2026 | Musings, Reno
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,...
by davidcrilly | Jul 2, 2026 | Musings, Reno
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...
by davidcrilly | Jun 26, 2026 | Musings, Reno
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...
by davidcrilly | Jun 25, 2026 | Musings, Reno
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...
by davidcrilly | Jun 23, 2026 | Musings, Reno
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”...
