Friday, May 14, 2010

Crazy Re-Do Guy

So, I have this nickname at work: Crazy Re-Do Guy.
I have a penchant for creating wildly intricate Excel (lately Access) databases to "simplify" my budgeting processes.
Not unlike the car in A New Leaf (one of the funniest movies ever), which needs to be taken in for a service every time it is driven, I tend to re-make my entire spreadsheet every time I have to do a budget. Rather than let it just let it produce the numbers as it has been designed to do, I re-design it.

Crazy Re-Do Guy.

I mention this because, on almost every single step of this project, I have done something, then had to re-do it. Or re-done it by choice.

So goes the sideboard stringers.

I mentioned it was raining this week, and I found that the stringers that I had simply screwed into the sideboards managed to warp and pull up from the underlying wood.

#$%#^&@*$.

So, today I . . (say it with me) RE-DID them.
Is it typical to use rocks in carpentry?


This time, I glued the entire length with Titebond III wood glue.
Why did I not glue them the first time?

Because I'm a freakin' moron, okay? Are you happy now?

I'm very pleased with the work today. Despite having done almost every step twice, I feel like I'm making progress.

Tomorrow is a rich, full day of baseball. But Sunday is set aside for boat-building.

This I declare: ON SUNDAY I WILL HAVE A BOAT-SHAPED HUNK OF PLYWOOD.
For reals.

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