Number Stamps

Imprinting into the smooth surface of metal is such fun.

When in need of labeling that won’t come off for anything, stamp it directly into the material surface. No permanent marker; no paint; no adhesive sticker. We have the letters of the alphabet (not pictured) and the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0.

Six being nine and all. That and five makes a decent-enough ess in a pinch.

Summer Construction Season

Sticker reading "I Survived the 2026 Construction"
Does this imply someone didn’t?

Spotted on a nearby office door. Summer is the season for construction around here, for fenced-off parking lots, for the interminable beeping of construction vehicles in reverse, for doors and paths suddenly in need of detours.

But the seasons change, as they ever do, and here we are in autumn, barreling toward winter, whose cold and wind leave us dreaming of construction season once more…