or least turn the clock back a couple of weeks!! I have two Christmas presents that will NEVER get done on time as you will see.
I have an excuse, though. I have a cousin who is moving back to northern Wisconsin after his family left for California about forty-five years ago. Do you have ANY idea what it takes to get a "Cheesehead Card", even a temporary one, for a California person trying to reenter "God's Country"?For the past two weeks, I have been on the phone 24/7 with the "relevant" authorities. These include, but are not limited to; Immigration Agencies, Homeland Security Brass, the FBI, the CIA, the KGB, M-5, the DEA, the Bureau of ATF, the ICC, the CDC, all of our local SWAT teams, the State Police, the County Sheriff, the Peshtigo Police Chief, local bank officials and the local animal shelter.
WHEW!!
Anyway, the first three pics show what will eventually be a printer/scanner cabinet for my daughter. When I try to explain my Christmas dilema to her, all I get in reply is, "But DAAAAAD!". NOBODY understands me!
The cabinet will have two large pull-out shelves; one for the scanner and the other as a general desktop. It will also have three 4" drawers and a file drawer. The better part of one side will have "bins" for paper storage. She is also DEMANDING some addition doodads that I haven't even figured out how to make - yet!
The pile of raised panels are the "replacements" that I had to make for the ones that I machined from a "cupped" board when one of my two brain cells "flamed out" a few days ago.
Now, for the technical questions: YES! The drawers WILL have bottoms - if I can find my melamine hardboard somewhere. NO! The duct tape is NOT the final attachment system for my joints. After I have finished and sanded (or is it sanded and finished) the assemblies, the duct tape will be replaced by TRANSPARENT shipping tape. That stuff is virtually invisible from a distance of three miles.
The last two pics show my progress on a Lego table for the grandkids. According to their UNDERSTANDING parents, this table is an absolutely, positively MUST HAVE Christmas gift! HEH! HEH! They did not designate the YEAR!!Anyway the "sticks will eventually be four 18" turned and threaded legs and the four 4" sides will be routed with the names of the four family "kids": JOSIAH(2), ALIYAH(1), INDY(4-their Aussie who attacks me incessantly) and, of course, DAD(?)!
I also have to dig out some plywood and Formica for the top.
There! And you thought that YOU had problems! Just as last year, I decided to end it all by diving off the end of my dock.You guessed it! I landed right on my head in some pretty hard water that some refer to as ice! Since I landed smack on my head, there was, obviously, no physical or mechanical damage - except to the ice!
PEACE ON EARTH AND GOOD WILL TO ALL!!
Dale T.
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Originally Posted by John Miliunas
Your local liquor store, or actually behind the liquor store, has an abundant supply of the material, usually in several strengths. If you're lucky, you can even find some with some neat plasticy laminations, advertising the contents of what had previously occupied the container. That way, you don't even have to buy that expensive sticky shelving paper to put in the bottom of the drawer to help protect them!