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
It took me a minute…
