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Winter emergency center for our succulents

In our previous house we had a veranda area (think "inside but kind of outside") area that was perfect for plants, as it had direct sunlight on it all day long. While I wouldn't want to spend more than a couple of seconds there during the hottest part of summer,

DIY

Somewhat Restoring a Vintage Traditional Korean Closet

For as long as I can remember I have naturally looked out for people throwing out what they consider trash. So when I saw some furniture on the side of the street a while ago, my eyes immediately fell onto this closet that, in spite of it missing a few

Coffee

Cold Brew: Try it.

It's easy to prepare, works with just about any beans (stale ones, even), and tastes great. Prepare a bottle (I use the Hario Mizudashi 1L, just ~$18 on Amazon) in the evening, throw it in the fridge, and you've got a great cup of cold brew ready for breakfast or

Nature

Common Starling & Varied tit

I've been providing a bowl of food and water for local birds this past year, and initially only the common birds you see everywhere here (I believe they're called Great tit, or Parus major) but this past week a new bird couple has showed up that looks similar but at

DIY

Update: Installing a Monitor Arm on my Tiny Desk.

A few weeks ago I installed a dual monitor arm on my tiny standing desk, and today I wanted to post a quick follow-up to this. First; I've been thoroughly enjoying this setup. It not only brought up the monitor(s, now) to the right height (as I had to

Office

Installing a Monitor Arm on my Tiny Desk.

I have a very small standing desk that I use as a sort of as a mobile home office, as I can roll it around the house to find the best spot for me to work in. Whether that's close to the servers for maintenance or so, to the more

DIY

Installing a grounded wall socket

For some reason that is completely unknown to me, only two or three wall sockets in my apartment are actually grounded — in the kitchen and laundry room. All the other ones actually have grounding wires present, they're just not used, and often tucked away into the wall without so much

Coffee

Video: Making Cold Brew Coffee

I wanted to give making cold brew coffee a try, so recently I purchased a Hario "Mizudashi" coffee pot. I thought it would be nice to record my first experience making coffee with it. While I enjoyed the end-result, I must admit that I basically just "winged" it, so it's

Music

Video: The New Home

This video was originally made and uploaded in October 2017, right after we moved into our new home. I wanted to make a short video celebrating the new home, and the fact that for the first time I was able to have my music setup in an actual living room,

Music

Video: Lala Land Limited Edition Blue Vinyl, or; The Joy Of Listening to That What You Can Touch.

I love the movie Lala Land and when they announced a limited edition blue LP of its soundtrack, I had to get it. As a sort of thank you to the movie, as-well as to share the joy that is listening to music you can physically hold in your hands,

Video

Video: The Balcony

Here I sand, stain and apply a coating to a garden set originally purchased from Ikea. We've since moved to a place that lacks a balcony, but we actually still use this table as our (very petite) kitchen dinner table, with a glass top we had made for it. This