BudDIY Podcast

Trying to learn a lot of new things, and get better at them, can lead to an abundance of projects. It seems like there is always one or two ready ago as soon as one is done.

Today I talk about 5 projects and where they currently stand, what has gone right, wrong, what I have learned from them, and what are the next steps. Even a little bit on why.

Have you ever wanted to get organized, but think "Oh I'll find the perfect way to track my todos". Only to never find the right thing, and to never get organized.

In this episode I talk about it from my perspective, and tell you what I do when I get into these situations. Hopefully there is a morsel of advice that can help you when you are hit by this.

I also talk briefly about a new service I am uploading my videos to as an alternative to YouTube.

We all have things to do, and a short amount of time to do it. I have always been able to do a large amount of things.

I feel like one of the main reasons for doing a lot is I treat everything as a project. I goal set, plan and execute as if every aspect of my life is a project that needs to be Project Managed.

In this episode I walk a bit through my process and use 1.5 examples to illustrate it better.

I recently hired a Permaculture Design Consultant to do an assessment of my property. We spent several hours walking over the property, discussing it, and coming up with ideas about it.

In the end we made some good decisions, and I have away froward.

But was it worth the price? Was it worth the time spent doing it? And did I learn anything along the way which is part of the reason I am doing any of this?

Hard times they are a coming. I have seen many people deny this, but if you pay attention to what is going on. You can see things are about to get real.

In this episode I break down a few indicators I have heard about, read, and piece together myself. It paints a bit of a bleak picture of the future for the next couple of years.

However, knowing that something is coming helps us to prepare. So at the end I give my suggestions on things to do to make it through to the other side that are a bit different than most people may come up with.

I think they are good suggestions to do not only for the coming times, but in good times as well.

Permaculture is quite involved, and super fascinating. The lazy side and science side of me both really like it.

In this episode I talk a little about what permaculture is, and why I am learning more about it. Along with some of the goals with permaculture.

Hopefully by the end of this episode it might spark more interest in doing more with it.

In the middle of summer in Oklahoma the weather is hoooooot. A/C makes life a bit more bearable at 4 in the afternoon. I was fortunate to get to help my dad install an A/C unit in his shop this past weekend. It was a beast at the 36k model of the Mr. Cool DIY Mini Split.

This episode I talk a bit about the ups and downs of it, as well as what I think of the A/C installation process. And I give a super important note about receiving your unit if you are having it shipped to your house.

Clamps are Clamps, or are they. Before I got into doing Woodworking I never realized all the types of clamps that exist. Especially when things got hard to glue up.

Recently I had an experience where I didn't have long enough clamps so I made some 10 foot pipe clamps, and called it a day. Then I decided maybe it is time to research better clamping.

In this episode we cover 10 clamps you might use in your DIY work, or woodworking. Several are pretty cool, and can make life a lot easier.

Next I need to learn clamping strategies.

The drill press is a fairly simple machine, but if you don't know what it can do then it may as well be useless.

I feel like this is kind of my history with the drill press. I used it, but never really knew what all it could do until I started researching it to buy a new one.

In this episode I go over all the things I wish I had known when I started using a drill press to give me a better idea of what to do.

Plus I also talk about the drill press I ended up buying, which I think is an amazing value for the price.

With more than the year half over, and the 4th of July over it is time to get back to work.

I spent sometime over the holiday thinking through the things I really wanted to get done, and I am going to over them in this episode. A few of the projects are going to really stretch me.

Other projects I am just going to have to gut out and get done. With that said it will be a fun and productive last half of 2020, and I am ready to attack it.