Planning for the new shop space is taking up much of my free time. I am increasingly certain that the project is going to be a success: the location is about as good as it could possibly be, the group has a broad-but-overlapping array of interests, and the people involved are all getting along smoothly.

Mike T. and I went to a garage sale in Fremont this morning: an old metal shop was closing down and selling off their tools. We decided we didn’t really have room for the plasma table, and none of the welders really fit our needs, but we found a good assortment of hand tools and a couple of classic metal power tools. The prize was a $20 bench grinder. It’s all sitting at the Rocket Factory for now, but it’ll all end up at the nameless new space sometime in February.