Slept in the Poler for two separate nights now. Both cold nights, one in heavy winds, one still.

Slept in the Poler for two separate nights now. Both cold nights, one in heavy winds, one still.

Or, don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
I’m an over planner. There’s no arguing it.
My very first boss drilled into my head “We never have time to do it right, but we always have time to do it again.”
Continue reading “The Power of Iterative Engineering”This is my first tarp, but I’m confident it won’t be my last. I purchased the REI Trailbreak Tarp. After playing with it in the yard for a few days and sleeping under it one night, here are my first impressions.

So yeah, what exactly is the plan here?
Given the number of roles that Fessick has to fill, and my thin wallet, I need to be careful with how I go about the build. I don’t want to install something and learn later that I need to remove it because it interferes with another thing, or because I started cheap and later find I need a capability that I hadn’t prepared for.
Continue reading “Fail to plan, plan to fail”