Posts tagged "Mini Home Improvement"

Because it felt disingenuous to call these “Home Improvement Projects”, but I still think they helped things trend in the right direction.


Mini Home Improvement Project #2: Desiccants

Desiccant.

I really enjoy the way that word sounds. It’s like a discount version of decadent, except that it hasn’t been soiled by rampant overuse in chocolate commercials. I was curious as to its etymology which, as you’ll see above, isn’t nearly as exciting as I’d hoped. I had never even heard of the word until a reader, known only to me as “BoscoBob”, brought it up in an email.

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Mini Home Improvement #1: Arts and Crafts
Source: Snipped straps and super glue, combined with a little (accidentally) dramatic and gloomy lighting

It’s been a while (six months almost to the day) since I did my last big Home Improvement post, and I think it’s about high time we changed that. Not only because a lack of Home Improvement posts signals stagnancy on the front of truck-progress, but also because there is much to be improved upon truck-wise, and I should be more proactive and motivated to work on it. This, as is likely evident from the title, is just a “Mini” Home Improvement project, but there are two fairly large ones that I’ve yet to write about, so expect those soon eventually.

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