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Sunday Cleaning
As mia_mcdavid wrote, we did indeed clean out the rumpus room today. I had hoped to make some progress there, but we did far more than I had expected. It really is looking sort of decent, as garage/workrooms go. The next step for me is to clean off my workbenches, both the old one that came with the house and the one that I built here specifically for woodworking with hand tools. For that I will need to find and/or make some storage. I have some ideas about how to do that, but I probably will not get much done until next weekend.
One way or another, almost all weekend I have been doing things with mia_mcdavid. It has been good.
“Six Days shalt thou labor, as much as thou art able….”
“The Seventh the same, and clean out the stable.”
Lathe work on YouTube
See Turning a Bowl on a Foot-powered Lathe and
Battle of the Bowl Turners.
I need to get my foot-powered lathe set up again!
I have not reached this point….
…yet.
Taking a Whack Against Comcast, via Little Old Lady Hammers Comcast.
More at Comcast Must Die, in particular
“I expect [Mona Shaw] to be on Jay Leno very, very soon. Why? Because she’s old ‘n’ cute ‘n’ violent, and because we feel her rage.”
Need a break
colgaffneyis dance guild is meeting tonight, but we are not going to be there. mia_mcdavid has a Garden Club meeting in Roseville. Without her, I think I will just stay home. In post 35-W Minneapolis the Westward trip from Roseville is still rather grim at 6:30 PM. Also, there may be heavy rain when I would return after 9 PM. I made that trip through storms three times in the last month. That is enough for now.
The fact is I really need some time at home. Sunday was busy and I have been out the last two evenings. I have not fully unpacked from the last two weekends of camping with colgaffneyis. I am looking forward to a relaxing evening, working on a couple simple projects while watching the Mythbusters blow up things on television.
Scary words
Last night was the monthly meeting of colgaffneyis Board of Directors, of which I am the Secretary. The Treasurer proposed a very reasonable settlement of an issue that had been hanging over our heads for a long time. However mia_mcdavid and I cringed at one phrase that he used: Continue reading
Irish Class last night — October 15, 2007
Irish Class, October 15, 2007
A small class, one student was out sick and two others were out because they had just come home from
the workshop in Madison.
Vocabulary and Grammar notes.
Mankato
My experience with colgaffneyis at Mankato was quite different from Big Island. Continue reading
Why I was smiling
…. while driving through a cold, drizzly and generally miserable day yesterday morning? Continue reading
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 