It has been a busy year, and no progress has been made on any of my projects on .io. The good news is that my office is almost back together(I have been remolding), and I have learned a few new tricks for my project management. Hopefully that means I will actually start making some progress with this stuff.

I have been watching some videos from the SV Seeker channel on YouTube and have found them to be both informative and inspirational. Check it out if you haven't already.

https://www.youtube.com/user/submarineboat

http://www.svseeker.com/wp/?v=7516fd43adaa

I have been recently watching Doug's videos on metal casting and decided that I really like the setup he has for a furnace and would like to build a copy of it. The problem is that It will cost a fair chunk of change to build it and the cost of materials has been one of the bigger reasons that I have not made any progress on this. So the plan is to build my furnace with the DIY refractory options as well as pursuing other DIY tools and options to get started with and then, if i "find the need", I will work on the better setup.

Going forward I will be First writing a better project scope/plan to rein in the scope creep I always experience and set forth a direction to head in.