Remember the past, Look to the future
I was standing at the RCAF memorial in Greisbach and it occurred to me the utter tragedy it would have been if Alberta separation had been supported. I haven’t spoken or written anything about this subject to date, but just this one time, because of the sacrifices and tragedies of the past, I think it’s important that we understand that the true beauty of humanity is our ability to work together and the true ill comes when we split apart.
On this day of all days let us look forward with hope and joy and, dare I say it, love.
Building Things follow up
I noticed I posted a picture of a bunch of cedar I was sanding (https://macblaze.ca/?p=16471) but failed to show the finished product. I didn’t actually take a picture of the finished/finished project but I have one of it pre-staining.
The kid wanted a new boot rack for his entry way so I bought a bunch of fence-quality cedar and spent a eck of long time sanding it. Economically it was a pretty goo… less the $50 for materials— but it was quite the investment in time.
Turned out ok I think.
More AI slop
L was stuck on a bus for over an hour, less than 10 minutes from the house. She happened to have a couple of boxes of halloween candy she was taking to work.
Prompt: draw me a picture in a cartoonish style of a female “warlord” in a red dress with a hippy vibe with long brown and silver hair standing on a pile of halloween chocolate in the aisle of a bus while others look on hungrily
AI is so bad, but it is so darn enticing in situations like this 🙂
Don’t doubt the love!
From the Archives
Cabinet maker?
I made my “first” piece of furniture… a small breakfast table for Zak. It isn’t exactly level on top as I did it all with a belt sander and plane. But the joins were pretty good considering and he seems happy enough. Maple and walnut.
Childhood memories
I cannot begin to express how delighted I was to find the the crooked kitchen was still at Ottawa’s Canadian Science and Technology Museum after around 50 years since I last visited. And that the kids these days are as fascinated now as I was then.
There are few less locomotives now than there then were but they are still pretty magnificent.
My first set of wheels
I came a cross this pic of my first car, a 1973 Mercury Montego MX Brougham. I still have the keys 🙂
I re-did the entire interior in diamond tufted velvet… because…
Apparently I am proud of my first car… seems I have already posted this… lol https://macblaze.ca/?p=8548
Building things
Now that I finally have my garage reasonably clean and relatively free of extraneous clutter (it only took 10 years), it about time I put the work bench I built back in 2019 to some use.
I needed a better shelf for my NAS and routers etc so I decided to build a cabinet. I went for particle board because it was cheap. I forgot how hard it was. Turned out ok though…
Next up is a cedar shelf for the kid. I cheaped out again and got cedar fence boards that I glued together. Sanding them is proving to be a challenge 🙂
Bzzzzzzz
