I’ve been asked a few time, especially concerning projects that I have started and said would be finished at specific time, what my schedule is. The short answer: there isn’t any. Up to now, I’ve been doing pretty much whatever I feel like doing at the time. To move to a fixed schedule, where projects are started and finished on time would probably make this seem too much like a job.

The best source of motivation is to do what you like doing, and are most interested in. For me that changes from week to week, and although this makes for some chaos where project completion is concerned, the upside is diversity of content. If a project idea occurs to me and is intriguing enough, it will move to the front of the queue and will likely be the following week’s feature article. That’s if it can be done in time and if it works as it should.

A good example of a project in limbo is the 1″ belt / disk sander that I previewed last month:

The project is done, but I’m hung up on getting the plans finished. For this, I want to publish the project, video(s) and plans all at the same time, and I’ve not had the time to devote to the plans to get them done. It is coming, it’ll just be later than I thought it would.

In other news, I’ve hit another milestone (for me) on YouTube: On August 16, 2012 my channel received more than 10,000 views in a single day – the first time this has happened. Probably seems like small potatoes to some, but it’s big for me. It’s an indication of how I’m doing, in general, and where I want this to go. This site has grown steadily since its inception and a good part of that is new traffic from YouTube.

Here a past project hack to share:

I modified one of my sanding blocks to accept 5″ disks by rounding the ends. This was out of necessity – to sand the second coat on my basement floor, I needed 220 grit sandpaper. I didn’t have any sheets on hand, but I have plenty of these disks for my random orbit sander. Works well and the fleece backing (for hook and loop) on the disk acts as a cushion.