AKA, doing shit I don’t want to do because I have to go back to work tomorrow. I did, however, finish painting my tissue box cover. It still needs its ribbon, but even as is, it’s better than a 50s-inspired light turquoise polka-dot tissue box! I was going to order rubber feet so I’m sure […]

I got two of the vintage books that I wanted, and…a Workmate! The instructions were something else–it would’ve been easier if they’d put the pictures with the text, and made them large enough to not require the assistance of a scanning electron microscope–but we managed. I’m currently thinking of a little project I can do […]

It didn’t just slide in like the other one, but I removed two of the bolts and it went in without any problem. Makes a cute shelf, I think! One very rough box, constructed of plywood left over from the house I built for OK (which is actually used by Onje). The sloppiest caulking job […]

I didn’t accomplish too much today, but I did get a coat of polyurethane on the tabletop and shelves (going to apply another in a bit…hopefully the last). I also fed/watered my plants and gave them a long-overdue grooming. I finally threw out the dead Hypoestes, but the volunteer baby in with the Peperomia is […]

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 […]

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 […]