Spending the week building some workout equipment from a HUGE fallen tree branch that was unfortunately struck by lightning. I successfully fashioned a 20 lb bar from an appropriately sized chunk of the branch (via chainsaw, orbital sander and redwood stain).

Today I am going to carve out some smaller weights, and start working on my home -made squat rack and pull-up bar setup.

Any leftover wood will be used for future furniture projects. When nature blesses you with millions of sats worth of high quality wood, it would be a shame not to use the beautiful resource to its fullest extent, without waste. Working out by building workout equipment -exciting times!

Very nice. Checking it out now.

Setting up a personal Ghost blog and experimenting with weaving LN payments (either a v4v donation widget, or a small faucet for early readers, or something along those lines) into it. Anybody have any experience with this?

This could be one of those things that it starts as you fucking around, and in five years you own an island, you're on the cover of Time magazine, and also the FBI's most wanted.