I came because I needed to pick up a friend at the airport at midnight. So a 3-hour drive, with a couple stops along the way, ending up with a couple of beers and dinner.

So I popped out of there and ended up in Old San Juan and now having a beer at El Batey - the oldest bar in SJ. The bartender I've met before but only once every a few months. He recognized me. We chatted with no one else in the bar. My perfect night out.

Dinner will be Mexican food just up the street after this.

A fine adventure Mr. Frodo.

Another hella rain today. After it passed I headed for San Juan.

Got here just fine. Decided to try without using map. Got perfectly wonderfully lost in the greater Santurce area. Ended up in a Section 8 barrio. Wound down every little street I could find. Each narrower than the last.

Trying to drive by dead reckoning after the sun had gone down. It was fun but I did end up right where I wanted to be eventually - at the food trucks park - but they were all closed. 1/2

Meal Team 6 and the Gravy Seals are not Well-regulated militias. And 14 year old mentally unstable kids don't need an assault rifle for Christmas.
#AmericanGuns

@Ironworker229
Just running between the raindrops ☔
Literally. It's been raining so much. If I didn't get wet I wouldn't get anything done. Last outburst this afternoon I grabbed the mop and mopped down my truck which was covered with cat prints, pigeon poop, and dirt, while it poured.

@Ironworker229
I've got a hoist setup in the corner that can lift from the sidewalk. Need to build a lift box for the cement sacks and tile to come. Or maybe just use a net bag, or a "super sack" they have for gravel/sand. I've got it rigged with 1/8th in steel cable right now - I don't think it's best for humans who want to

@TwiHusband
😆 Okay then, how about cowboys and space girls - Firefly,
Or proto-molecule portal - The Expanse. Maybe that's the one you're using here 😉

@Ironworker229
I have a mini fridge, portable propane bbq grill, & gas burner, for the outdoor kitchen. Still to come; sink, and this U shaped butcher block top I just acquired from a friend may come in useful...looks like a bar to me.🍻

@Ironworker229
Wood rots steel rusts. I'll send you the plans - come on down I'll give you a vacation and we can build a set of metal stairs.⛱️

@TwiHusband
What?! No Who option?

@Ironworker229
Love a new endeavor!

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing 3 times.

1st, R&D, test build,
scrap material
2nd, looks good, from here.
3rd, there ya go!

@Ironworker229
Many times.
My treads don't trip you.
#IYKYK 😉

@Ironworker229

I'm going to put in a wood staircase with a wider landing. Can't get anyone to build me a metal one - price and timing. I own a hammer, not a welder, so...

@Ironworker229
Access is interesting, but it will be sweet finished with tile. 90°F in the shade under the fan ain't bad. There's usually breezes too.

@jjGravitas

#Texistrata

@Ironworker229
Sanded 16x16 rock cobble style. No slips! Similar to this on the ground level entry terazza.

@carmen that's me in 1965.
Only it was nukes, not bullets, we were sheltering from.

@Ironworker229
6"of concrete. It was never sealed or finished to my knowledge. And this is the second power wash. It's very much a rough roof. But it's lovely up there. So knocking the tops off the high spots. And pouring leveler will give me a nice surface to work on. And I think it's a project I can do in bite sizes of about 6 ft by 7 ft or 40 square feet.

@Ironworker229 @corlin @CJShaneArtBooks
If I'm not mistaken, it was one of their first major projects, their reason for being.

@Ironworker229 @corlin @CJShaneArtBooks
True, they couldn't pass gun control fast enough after they saw a bunch of legally armed Black Panthers standing on the courthouse steps.

They likely also served breakfast and lunch that day to children in the neighborhood.