New take on lighting for the shop

Found this site that has a great selection of ELWire... at reasonable prices too. 

http://www.thatscoolwire.com

I ordered enough Dark Blue to circle completely around the top of the wall inside the shop, should add a electric look to things.

Eagerly Awaiting UPS

Kingston HyperX 3K SH103S3/120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive

 

I am looking forward to experiencing the true speed of a good SSD. I know that Seagate's 1TB Hybrid is a great value... but I still want more speed.

Moving Forward... Albeit Slowly

Most of the critical stuff is now in my new shop, having a difficult time deciding on exactly how to arrange it all to make the best use of the space available #organizational skills.
I just ordered my new workstation PC which will allow me to regain a considerable amount of desktop space. 

The Asus EEEBox  with the Intel Atom D2700 (2.13GHz, Dual-Core Ht)  and NVidia GeForce 640M  graphics.

Together with 4GB Ram and a Solid State Drive, and my favourite Ubuntu install, makes for a more than adequate work station that is really snappy, all for under $350.

Slow progress

If it isn't one thing its another... had a hard drive fail in my server... finally back up and running. Guess I can't complain too much, it had been up and running for over 7 years steady. I was able to save all the data OK and took the opportunity to upgrade to the latest release of Vortexbox as well, and added SubSonic for internet streaming. Hopefully I will be able to go another 7 years without incidence. Not bad for a 12 year old beat-up Dell with a P4 and 1GB ram.  Try THAT with Windows  ROFLMAO!.

Work In Progress

Yeah, Yeah... I know... you shouldn't move stuff in 'til you have it finished, unfortunately we are forcing it to free up the bedroom I had taken over in the house. So far all I have in there can be pulled away from the wall for insulating... can't do that unit fall anyway to let the green lumber dry out a bit... it is Amish built after all.
-Electrical....   check.
-Telephone...  check.
-Internet...     check
-Music...     of course.
-Tools...    most of them.
I insulated the roof all ready... more from necessity than anything... gets really warm in there in the full sun without it.;P
So far... I'm liking it!  Hey, it's a tax write-off if nothing else.

It has been a battle getting this far so quickly... 60 hour weeks behind the wheel of the bus limits available move time. It is a busy time of year for transportation.

Bare Bones

New shop in place... now to install all the necessities.

Insulation... Electrical... Data... Workbenches... etc... might be up and running in a few weeks.

New Shop

My new shop is paid in full and on its way $975.00. I purchased an 8 x 12 building from the local Amish which will be delivered the 20th of April. Have been busy getting electrical and data runs ready to send through conduit once it is sitting in place. I will finally be able to move all my computer work out of the spare bedroom upstairs and out of the wood shed. Insulation and peg board are the next step once the electrical is in place. I will update with the progress as I can.