{"id":705,"date":"2021-11-29T22:33:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T06:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wing-on-wing.com\/?p=705"},"modified":"2021-12-05T22:17:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T06:17:48","slug":"a-whole-lot-has-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wing-on-wing.com\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"A whole lot has changed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, clearly by the lack of posts since that last one, things have changed. Quite a lot, in fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life often doesn&#8217;t go as planned, and plans are derailed or go awry. But, I&#8217;d like to start using this blog again, so without going into more detail than needed, here&#8217;s the short version of what&#8217;s happened, and at least what I think is coming up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>2017:<\/strong><ul><li>While I didn&#8217;t finish working on the nature video project I attempted to start, I did learn a lot about filming and editing 4K video<\/li><li>What I did do is buy a sailboat&#8230; in the US Virgin Islands&#8230; In July. The sailboat was a 1984 Allmand 35. I bought it from an old drunk and was going to fix it up and go live in the Caribbean for a year or two! This seemed like a great plan, until:<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurricane_Irma\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurricane_Irma<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurricane_Maria\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurricane_Maria<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Luckily, while I wasn&#8217;t <em>at<\/em> the boat (or even in the USVIs at the time), it was tied up very well in the marina, and survived both hurricanes with minor damage. Unluckily, the island hadn&#8217;t gotten off so easily, and my plans of moving to the island onto the boat and working on it were dashed.<\/li><li>I watched a bunch of episodes of a TV show called Forged In Fire and got interested&#8230;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018:<\/strong><ul><li>In January, I took a class at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firehorseforge.co\/\">Fire Horse Forge<\/a>, intro to bladesmithing, where I forged a knife. I enjoyed the class immensely, and decided to sign up for another more advanced one in May.<\/li><li>I sold the boat in the USVIs for about 60% of what I&#8217;d bought it for.<\/li><li>I leased a Kia Stinger GT2.<\/li><li>In May, I took the second course, loved it, and made another even cooler knife. I then encouraged some friends to do the same.<\/li><li>In September, a bunch of friends and I did a 4 day sailing charter in the San Juans, with me captaining again. Once more on the <em>Christelle<\/em>.<\/li><li>In December, one of those friends that had tried out the knifemaking course and I started putting together our own forge at his house and started making things.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019:<\/strong><ul><li>I worked on learning to make knives on my own.<\/li><li>I took a solo road trip in the summer for two weeks, going through Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Craters of the Moon.<\/li><li>I met a wonderful woman who I&#8217;ve been partners with ever since<\/li><li>I commissioned a logo for Wing on Wing, which I&#8217;ve since used on the knives I make and will soon apply to this site<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020:<\/strong><ul><li>I&#8217;m pretty sure I had big plans for 2020. But, uh, the whole COVID thing happened.<\/li><li>I did make more knives, though.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021:<\/strong><ul><li>Vaccines were had!<\/li><li>I leased another Stinger GT2. 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