Home made ice cream! Yummy!!!
Posts from ‘June, 2008’
Blanket Chest – Progress finally!
I’ve been very busy over the last 2 weeks or so on my blanket chest. It is assembled and sanded and ready for a finish. Here is a picture on the way to getting done: Here is the final assembled (still needs knobs on the drawers though): I have already installed the knobs and drawer [...]
Guitar Repair Maintenance
I bought a DVD talking about Electric Guitar setup and maintenance. The DVD is titled Fret MD: Electric Guitar and Bass Setup and Maintenance with Al Markasky. Short of a class on this subject, I thought the presentation of the areas covered were excellent. He covers the main areas of setup which in his process [...]
Woodworking, swimming, and now…
Woodworking, swimming, and now BBQ’ing. This is what I call a good summer!
Making ice cream for the kids!
Making ice cream for the kids!
FISA, Renewal, and Obama
There have been some negotiations in Congress regarding the FISA renewal. FISA is the law put into place after 9/11 that gave US Government agencies extraordinary powers to investigate people. To me, the law is not only not necessary but also puts our government on a direct path to a police state. No, it’s not [...]
Summer has begun!
I know that the official start of summer is not till about 5pm today (6/20) but the weather is finally here. Yesterday was low-mid 70′s and today is upper 70′s/low 80′s. Xander, Mitchell and I (plus our neighbor Egor) have gone on several bike rides and the boys are all playing in the sprinklers right [...]
Browser News: Download Firefox 3 Today
At 10am (PST), Mozilla (makers of Firefox) is asking it’s existing and new users to help it with a challenge. Their challenge is to establish a new world record for the most downloads of something for the internet in a single day. Since it’s a new record, anything measurable establishes the record but they want [...]
MacJournal vs Ecto
Well, I’ve used MacJournal for about 100 posts and it’s a nice application. It has the benefit of allowing you to have a “Blog” and a private journal. In my view, the weaknesses include the lack of synching a designated number of posts from a blog site which could include download all posts. I like [...]
Garage Sale Today
Well, today’s a day that we always struggle with. Our purpose behind a garage sale is to get rid of the stuff to someone who may use it. Trashing it (taking to dump) is not very green and taking it to a thrift store doesn’t always work out (what do they take and what do [...]
Knees
When I workout, I lift significant weight. Of course significant weight means different things for different exercises. Also, I tend to be conservative with the weights though I do lots of reps in each set. My general workouts follow a full body approach though I’ve had to modify it. I was doing full squats (bar [...]
Power Outage
The power just went off probably because the wind, which has just started to blow a bit, knocked something down and into a power line. I just finished doing some sanding on my Blanket Chest so after the power comes back up, I’ll work to put a picture or two up. UPS’s are great except [...]
Woodworking: Blanket Chest
I’ve been working pretty steady on my blanket chest and making some progress forward and then losing some progress too. At the beginning of the project, I had taken a bunch of Cherry wood (what I’m making this blanket chest from) and glued up panels. The glue ups looked great after some scraping and sanding. [...]