What a strange year 2020 was. I think my production went up a bit at least in terms of vehicles and I acquired and refined some new skills on the modeling front. I also was able to stay gainfully and quite busily employed. As an IT Consultant for a major healthcare provider to say I was busy would be an understatement.
We were in the midst of a major kitchen renovation just before the virus really hit and we were able to get that project finished. Fortunately isolation from the workers was already in place because of the dogs. We did make extensive use of our Jeep Gladiator (This is a pickup truck based on the frame of a 4 Door Wrangler and in fact from the front looks exactly like the new JL series Jeep, I have seen it referred to as a JLG in forums), hauling tile from the stores to home. Between two bathrooms and the kitchen I figure we moved about 3,000 pounds of tile, the Gladiator handled it all. I love that truck!
Like many of us I spent a great deal of time at home so the wood workshop say a lot more use and most of my major acquisitions for the year were tools. A new table saw, router, planer and drill press all took up residence in the workshop portion of the garage and all of them were used on various DIY projects that my wife was able to come up with.
In addition we removed the soft top from our 2 door Jeep Wrangler and replaced it with a hardtop. I have never seen a worse set of instructions written for such a complicated project. I know a new top sounds pretty simple but we went all out and bought one with a rear defroster, rear window wiper and washer. All of which required running another wiring harness, hooking up the electrical connections (correctly!) in the engine compartment and the dashboard and replacing various switches. I had no idea what I was getting into, you can count on a post for that little project.
I also delved back into Calamity a bit as the tools acquired for our DIY projects also give me the capabilities to build the basic sub-structure for the Calamity boards. Hoping to move on that front in 2021 as well.
On the model railroad front, that may stay behind the radar for a while as well. I have a solid design for the D&RGW warehouse row in Denver, now its just finding the time to put it into action, not to mention that I still want to model the C&NW narrow gauge line running up into the Rocky Mountains from Boulder, I'm still trying to get my hands on at least one Bachman On30 2-8-0 for that project.
I still don't see a lot of wargaming opportunities for the coming year or conventions for that matter. Maybe ReaperCon will be live this year, Labor day could be viable from a vaccination standpoint.
I think I can continue keeping the blog going through 2021 without a problem. Should be plenty of things to do! Oh and I did manage to finish the Christmas cards for 2020, we were just so rushed that I never managed to get a picture of them finished with the black ink.
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