I didn’t want to go out in the cold, but I gotta do what I gotta do, so I did. I squared up my glued boards, and was reluctant to try skimming off so little with the skilsaw, so I was going to use the belt sander, but in the end, I just marked the […]
I didn’t write anything because first I went shappin and got…boring stuff (allergy pills, laundry stuff), nail punches, drill bits, green paint for the router repeater and a plant cache pot, Gorilla Glue for wood, and a photo mat at Walmart. At CHC, I got 8′ of not bad pine, 12 x 1 for the […]
Aside from waiting until the urethane has cured sufficiently for me to flip the table over and screw (possibly also glue) the top to the base, my chair/table/curtains project is complete! Nearly a year I spent on it, but once spring came last year, it was full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes for the […]
I put the first coat of urethane on at 0825h this morning. Supposed to dry in 6-7h, but that’s not happening, probably because it’s a bit cool (60-ish) in the gradge. It’s drying; it’s just taking longer, and for the record, that stuff smells horrible! Assuming this coat ever dries, I’ll apply one more. Only […]
After I cleaned up the cris-mess yesterday, I fired up the belt sander and decided I’d finally finish my table top. That thing ripped through the glue blobs that would’ve taken ages with a palm sander, so I finished it. Bottom got belt sander, 60 grit, 80 grit and 100 grit. Top had already got […]
Wearing cow jammies and safety glasses, brandishing a Fat Max saw. P and FireTV Pwresents! Including 5 lbs of Swedish Fish, a Stanley tape with Blade Armor, a vintage 70s horror book that I used to borrow from Gram, a grass hook, a sweater dryer, big fat socks, CDs and DVDs, and a mini wunderbar. […]
I finally got around to doing the dd-wrt firmware upgrade on the Linksys router C gave me, and it worked just fine. I also have our old Linksys; newer firmware, but still supported. I had no more than got the repeater set up than the goddamned power went out (a damaged line somewhere, according to […]
Not a $500 item this time, but I’m hoping Sennheiser earphones will be better than the ones that came with my phone, and I’m pretty sure that’s not an unreasonable hope. These retail for $50-$80, but there’s no way I’d pay that much for headphones of any variety. Amazon Lightning Deal for $19.99, however, sure! […]
Merry Christmas to me, from me! I finally broke down and bought a new P&S. I love my T2i, but miss the ability to go from an extreme macro of a dragonfly’s face to a shot of a bird 50′ away in a few seconds. I also missed a swing-out LCD display for shots close […]
Am I the only one who thought this movie sucked? Well, besides P, who watched it with me. Special effects were good, but the “plot” (I’m using the term in its most generous sense) was awful. I love science fiction, and real science, and space, and I even like Matthew McConaughey, but I hated the […]