So, I made a trip to Schnucks today to pick up some allergy medicine because all of this fabulous fresh air makes me sneeze. When I left, I drove through the Pages For All Ages parking lot. As I began to slow down for the stop sign at the crosswalk, I noticed an older gentleman using one of those walkers with wheels making his way to the entrance. By the time I reached a complete stop, he had shuffled about halfway through. It was at that very moment that someone nearby honked their horn, which caused the older gentleman to halt his progress and look up at me as if to say, “Are you kidding me?” Meanwhile, the people in the van on the other side of the crosswalk looked at me with total disgust for being so rude. I tried to make a variety of hand motions while mouthing, “That wasn’t me! It wasn’t me! Not my horn!” However, I don’t think anyone understood and I felt like a total jackass even though I hadn’t done anything except try to get some sinus and allergy relief for the day.
Archive for April 6th, 2008
I took a week off of woodworking because I felt I was getting too obsessed with it and not giving other things I like (cooking, my wife) as much attention as I’d like. Last Saturday marked the end of that woodworking hiatus (ok I cheated once) and we drove off to Bloomington to pick up some wood. I needed some 2 inch thick birch or maple to band the edges of my desk (since it’s made of plywood).
After a frantic glue up (thanks for the help K), I’ve got two sheets of plywood laminated together to make a 1.5″ thick desk. Since the plywood was 8 feet long and the desk span is more like 10 feet, I had to “extend” the plywood by gluing some additional material to the end. If it were a perfect world, that’d be the end, but it’s not. Since the plywood butt-joint created a seam where they met, I routed out a slot and inlayed it with some solid birch. After planing this inlay down, it’s as smooth as it gets. I’m hoping a dark stain will cover the fact that none of the grain matches. Here’s what it looks like.
