Old Fart's Cave

Spent hundreds of hours playing with Meccano and LEGO when I was a kid. Imagining, designing, testing, evaluating, rebuilding. I learned a lot about basic engineering before I was 7 years old - fulcrums, gears, axles, leverage, friction, pulleys, inclines, reinforcement - lots of basic engineering principles.

Trying to build a tiny house myself. Ive built basement suites and done renovations, not terribly complicated and the process was relatively simple. Could fit the guidelines for a basement suite on about 4 pages.

Decided at 63 I wasn’t going to go down without a fight as my body seems to complain more and more every year. So I bought a motorcycle last month after a 20 year break from riding (after a near fatal riding accident where I got rear ended by a minivan). If Im gonna die, it ain’t gonna be on a couch from eating too many Doritos while watching some inane TV show. So far, 300 kms and not a single near fatal accident lol.

While I advocate that being fit is mandatory for old farts, I really felt today’s training. Running 20k progressive from 5:30/km to 4:45/km, and I crashed at 19k.

Currently sitting in my favourite chair watching Daredevil and nursing my aching back.