I am writing in LibreOffice Writer, a component of Fedora Linux. The office program seems to be much the same as the OpenOffice.Org which is written in Java and now sponsored by Oracle. Looks like Linux is getting more commercial than they claim. Oh well, it seems to be very similar and functional.

I have Fedora installed on one of the shop computers and in the shop is where I have been all day (so far). The weather is so nice that I hate being in the house with so much that can be done here. It has been raining off and on for several nights so the yard is at last getting well refreshed but not ready for a cutting.

It’s nice to have a comfortable workshop again. I haven’t started the build on the Dauntless but it is getting close. The project is a hobby, not a business so things like a daughter getting married move to first in the line. That event just ended with a hitch and in this case that is a good thing.

I have been looking for an 18” hollow core door panel for a boat building surface. It is one panel of a bi-fold closet door. I don’t have time of the energy to haunt scrap yards as I can buy a new 24” single door for under $30.00. I am about to go do that. Too wide is OK.

First job will be to cut down the length to make it more manageable. I figure about 20- 24 inches removed should do it. That operation will probably be the next post.