But since the last entry I've:
- Designed and built, and re-built and re-built part of a Lego castle.
- Melted down an additional 5 gallon bucket of smashed aluminum pop cans
- Been "best man" in a wedding for the (at least) third time
- Took a week of "Vacation" and painted the outside of the house, which entailed:
- Take down about 180 feet of gutter
- Power wash 80 feet of wall, 180 feet of fascia, 180 feet of sofitt and a 16 x 16(ish) brick patio
- Replace 30 feet of rotted fascia board
- Paint all 180 feet of fascia board (twice)
- Put up about 144 feet of aluminum fascia cover (I didn't find it until I was doing the back of the house)
- Put up 180 feet of gutter
- Paint 80 feet of wall
- Add vents to 60 feet of sofitt (drill holes and add covers)
- Put up 180 feet of gutter, downspouts and gutter guard
- Cleaned the house, mowed the lawn & weeded the garden so I could host a bonfire
- Hosted a (pretty lame) bonfire (The fire was great; attendance was lousy)
- Moved the Westerville Band Website to a new host
- Wrote a couple of Java programs for fun (more music stuff and some 3d modeling to 2d pattern stuff)
- Played "taxi" (Picked up and dropped off various people from the airport)
- Started a new hockey season
- Tried to get in shape for the bike ride (Hilly Hundred) I'm going on at the end of the month.
- Had both the front and rear brake lines of my truck blow out on the way to get it fixed
- Upgraded my home backup to a terabyte drive
- Upgrading my laptop to Snow Leopard
- Played tech support for my sister and my neighbors. (Install a zillion software updates and answer the usual how do I... questions)
o books (I went on a bit of a reading binge for a while), some visits to the old-folks to catch up with my aunt and cousin, dinner with friends, taking care of cats for friends who were on vacation the usual 40+ hours of work a week, band practice, a couple of band concerts, church meetings, watching more movies than I have for about a year, finding several new video podcasts to watch and it all adds up to a pretty busy couple of months.House before and after. I guess it did really need some paint.
Oh, and I finally finished a bookcase for my friend Jeff (who
was the one who got married).And no, the title isn't a comment on how long it will last.
It is a comment on how long it took me to finish it. Don't ever tell me that you're not in a hurry. 'Cause if you're not in a hurry, I'm not either.
If it weren't for deadlines, ain't nothin' ever would get done.
Jeff requested the book case about 7-8 months before he moved into his house. He's lived there about 4 years.
It's basically two 33 inch cases with a 36 inch cabinet between them and adjustable shelves above the ca
binet. It's all just pine; construction lumber from the local "big box" store. The sides are 2 x 6s planed down to 1" (actual thickness) and joined into boards. The 2 x 6s were left over from a project that didn't work. Here's a shot of the second (right-hand) case half-painted in 2007. I think this got delivered sometime in late 2007 or 2008.The shelves sit up pretty high, because there is a heating/cooling vent on the floor under the left-hand shelf. The bottom of the shelf acts as a duct extension. The hole in the bottom center of the shelf is for a vent cover.
The whole case is about 9 feet long and is fastened together to look like one unit, but can be disassembled and moved if necessary.
The shelves bolt t
o the cabinet so the base looks like one unit and the top sits over the top of the side cases and make them look like they are one unit. We decided to add lights in the center (at the last minute so to speak), so you can use that as a display case. Here is a shot of the cabinet, around December 2009. I was pretty proud that the doors came out with a nice even gap all the way around. I only had to do a little bit of planing to get them to open and close nicely.Here is a shot of the completed bookcase.
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