Uncle Markie out and about.
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More sticks to sand and seal, but by the end of the day (interrupted by driving around town during a Huskies, Mariners and Sounders game) all the cross pieces were on the drying rack with all sides completed. Remaining— the wine bottle dividers, these multitude of ” x ” sticks. Not sure how I’m going [...]
The flight was a little more full (only 1 free seat after they started selling them off for $150), so Seor Lobster decided to book himself into the “sleeper” compartment for the red-eye home: At least he got some sleep. Me, I was up reading, watching junk TV, and marveling at the “old skool stew”… [...]
Checkout time is 11am, which means I have to leave by 10:45 to walk over to check out at the Royal Kuhio, a minor inconvenience, but still 15 minutes less of sleep. Oh, and the monthly bug spray team is coming through sometime after 9, luckily I’d finished cooking before they showed up. Got checked [...]
Mr. Lobster has his breakfast: Then relaxes on the lanai (that’s white person for deck): And then for cocktails on the deck in his new shirt and hat combo from the Food Pantry: Before a surf and turf dinner (Mr. Lobster being the Surf!): Meanwhile, I’m the one who spent most of the day hunched [...]
The flight isn’t until 6pm, and even though it’s out of Bellingham (2 hours north), it still means there is time in the morning for more sanding and sealing. I’m looking forward to 3 days to let my carpal tunnel built-up subside. Left a little early to hang out with SurfBetty for half an hour [...]
Another day of sand, seal, stack. The uprights on the drying rack. The cross pieces waiting to be sanded tomorrow before I head to the airport. And for that “dip tray” to speed the process. Total failure — too much polyurethane. I’m back to thinking I need to get a real sprayer since the Kirby [...]
Another day in the shop, another batch of dust followed by sealing both sides of the champagne shelves, and making a trough to dip the uprights a drying rack to hold them. Will this lumber ever end! I’m thinking (about Waikiki) that I can actually make due with just my roll-on computer case. The temperature [...]
Nope, just cross supports drying after getting sealed— we don’t want anyone getting splinters in the shop. In the upper left hand side you see the wooden wince boxes that we’ll be using for the lower display shelves. So, you can tell how I spent my day; sanding and sealing, followed by a partners meeting [...]
The sander head for the Kirby came in the mail today… Which got me motivated to see what other shop tools I could make out of Kirby vacuum cleaner parts. How about a spray gun to apply all the polyurethane to the wine rack pieces? Sure, it’s supposed to be for spraying sudsy water, it [...]
Eat, Sleep, Code. That’s how this week is feeling. But this did come in the paper today from the Wall Street Journal, talking about the “Waffle House Index To Tropical Storm Damage”. Here is the link to the whole story. But I did get a chance to cut down the panels and make tops for [...]
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