Brilliant, absolutely brilliant, thank you Kopes xx

Stawks, you've pretty much hit the nail on the head.

I like me. I like being with me. I'm entertaining.

I'M BUILDING AN ARCH!!!

Do I really need an arch? Does it matter? I've got the garden stakes and the saw, I'm gonna make something!!

Days like this make up for the bad days. There's no good, rational explanation for why I'm making an arch, I just am.

Kopes, that is Brilliant.

It's so cleverly written, it's beautiful.

An arch?  Whatever floats ya boat, ecar

Oh no, that's an ark

Just take care, ok?

The biggest problem I'm facing is splinters.

Lithium, bless it, very neatly irons out the extremes.

My bad days look more like I'm trying to qualify for the procrastination team at the Olympics, and my more enthusiastic moments are limited to enthusiastically chasing ideas, and then usually talking myself out of them.

I'm okay.

Thank you.

Passing time while the glue dries...

There's that solar light which is an ongoing problem project, I should see about getting it going, again.

Part of me thinks the answer will be a simple one; Stop now, save yourself the frustration.

The circuit that runs it uses two transistors, yes, very much like the ones in the old fashioned radios. They're the things that usually fail, rendering the light useless. They can be replaced, but... Finding the right ones, here, that are the equivalent of the ones in the circuit, then replacing them can take time, and the cost...? Well, don't hold your breath that they'll necessarily be cheap.

Think of something the size of the capital B on your keyboard, with three little wires coming out of it. That's pretty much what a transistor looks like.

My hands aren't that steady, anymore, and fiddling around on a cramped circuit board trying to remove the transistor, or, because Murphy's law is sure to apply, Both transistors, let alone replacing them is just far too much work.

Welcome to the throwaway age.

Years ago I built my own solar light circuits, but now it's a case of recycle, salvage, take what I can use, and big green bin the rest.

It's a plastic turtle, with an opaque yellow shell, with an amber light inside. It's uglier than a hat full of the proverbial, but I've come to love it, so I'm giving it a second go. I'm going to run a wire into it from an existing, working circuit, and see if I can't resurrect it.

The things I do with my weekends.

Ah well, keeps ya off the streets and out of everybody else's hair, ecar

Good luck with that project.

Eyes on the prize - don't get distracted