I finished the coffee table. onelargecat posted photos.

My bike was stollen today. :(. From outside where I work. They no longer allow people to lock bikes inside, so they need to be on a busy street away from the security cameras. My bike was bought in 1991, and has a torn up seat that is just foam, a rusted chain, and a front tire with absolutely no tread. ( Read more... )

I was very busy this weekend, and got the following things accomplished:

Coffee Table: I used a wood chisel to reshape the a where the glass sits. Then I filled other parts with wood putty and stained all those areas. I also sanded the top with steel wool, in order to take out the very shiny areas from the polyurethane coating. I need to rub it some ( Read more... )

I'm inspired by clevernonsense and his continuous stream of projects. I think it would give me inspiration and make me more productive if I posted my own.

Current project: Coffee table with corks.
I have been working on this for about 3 weeks now, and it is nearly done. Karen and I have had the general idea of using the hundreds of corks that we own to make a ( Read more... )

Would you like your own? Comment here, I will ask you five questions, and you can post the answers :)

1. "my body is a temple," or "better living through chemistry?"Both? Probably "my body is my temple" because I tend to not take medicine unless I think it will help me get over the illness. However, I am not at all opposed to medicines. And I tend ( Read more... )

I am obsessively organized and it bugs me when I have a system that seems really crazy. So, that is why I'm asking for advice for handling my current situation with three offices, behind the cut.

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This has been a very exciting and busy year for me, and because this is a particularly dull and boring day (I'm at work completing the "metadata" for a grant application and spending way too much time looking up college certification numbers, making sure my biosketch is up to date, and choosing the official name of my current and former ( Read more... )

Couples Meme
the following has been yanked from zvuv , who got it from ( Read more... )

A couple of details I forgot to put in yesterday's post:

-- Apparently windows broke in other apartments on our floor (and throughout our apartment building). When we first went downstairs, as the alarms were blaring, Karen went to open the door and thought I was pushing on it, because it wouldn't open. When we finally got it open, we realized that ( Read more... )

So I'm at work and have internet access. The hurricane was pretty awful. Here is a brief description:

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So it's started raining and the winds have gotten much harder. I guess we're officially at the edge of the hurricane now. Still about 5 hours from the eye ( Read more... )