Day 490:<\/p>\n
Now there are two duckens in my bedroom. I’m starting to wonder if there’s a hole in the wall that they’re sneaking through.<\/p>\n
Making all these rails is a lot of work, but it seems to be working out. I’m laying the rails between some of the outbuildings and working on a mining cart design.<\/p>\n
I’ve learned in my i’m-not-doing-the-math year plus here that one of the keys \u00a0to getting stuff done is sizing down to my own abilities. Railroad rails way back in the day were long I-bars of steel that it took multiple hardened men to carry.<\/p>\n
Mine are about three feet long, at most, and probably half the gauge. Thus, carryable by your standard mining woman stranded on a rock in the middle of nowhere without even a ducking medpack to patch her up or a strong coffee to give her a boost.<\/p>\n
So I’m getting better at this stuff.<\/p>\n
But i’m very tired and I have twice as many eggs to deal with as yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Day 490: Now there are two duckens in my bedroom. I’m starting to wonder if there’s a hole in the wall that they’re sneaking through. Making all these rails is a lot of work, but it seems to be working out. I’m laying the rails between some of the outbuildings and working on a mining … <\/p>\n