Two Tuesday’s ago was a dreaded day at my workplace. My company decided to jump on the current fad that is known as layoffs. 700 of us would need to go. The direction given to employees the day before was to come in, sit at your desk, and wait for
Christmas in April
So I’ve noticed that you have been away for a while. I’m guessing you want new content or something? Just going through a “me” phase are we? The wrist has healed up quite a bit and I’m back woodworking. I was finally able to present family members with their Christmas
A joint that was not intended to be knock-down
I’m writing this post with one hand and on drugs (so… a pretty standard post). No, it’s not because of a woodworking accident, thankfully. And no, it’s not because I’m “multitasking” my other hand at the moment. The reason is that while I am fairly skilled at roller-hockey I was
I came, I saw, I spalted…
A little over a year ago I had eight sweet gum trees taken down on my property as they were a little to close to my home for comfort. Not knowing much about this species I researched it a bit on the web. From what I read it makes for
Texture me surprised
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Seeing the forest from the trees… in my dining room.
Tomorrow an appraiser will be visiting and assessing my home for a refinance. It seems that someone has run up some serious credit card debt, possibly related to tool purchases, and needs to consolidate. Sounds pretty standard right? Well… ummmm… I’m freaking out a bit as I just took a
A quick thank you…
Some days nice things just happen (and as we know, the other 363 days what’s mostly happening is something that only a dung farmer can appreciate) and I had one of those days recently as I noticed that the kind people over at Rockler had blogrolled me. Thank you Kim
Man versus groundhog
I was at the bench today and looked out my backyard window and saw this little guy foraging around. “Mittens”, as I like to call him, is a groundhog that lives in the bank of a stream at the end of my property. It’s hard to ever get a good
Making a .001 clearance insert
Tired of closing my eyes as I trim boards, fearful of the offcut falling between the blade and the stock insert and being launch back at me, I decided to make one of these high-falootin gizmos called a zero clearance insert. These inserts are a panacea… they protect you from