I FINALLY finished the $100 knife that is worth more like $200. And I made this BBQ fork out of a 5/8" piece of the #80s of silicon bronze I got from a guy at work. Apparently he started to build a rather large wooden boat and then torched it when he was going through a divorce.. anyways he raked up all this scrap bars and screws out of the ashes ( Read more... )

According to my bathroom scale I have lost 10 pounds, (down to #145, wasn't really trying to loose any) now my right eye wants to swell shut for some reason, and my stomach still refuses to digest anything the way it is supposed to. It is like my body just went on strike this week.

I have been sick with stomach flue since monday morning. SInce that time I have only held down two bagels and a slice of toast. Today my only source of food stuffs has been half of a 24oz. sugar free rockstar, yeah chicken soup is sooo 1984. I am getting a little bit loopy I think, just thought everyone would be interested to know. Also I am bored ( Read more... )

Had a busy day today, got a gas range from work and so I carted that into the house and tore out a few cabinets and mounted the hood fan to go with it, and pulled off a piece of the asbestos siding for the exhaust duct, tomarrow I hook everything up and try to come up with a 12" cabinet to fill the space. The hood is a nice custom fabricated one ( Read more... )

Took a video of my son this weekend, he is walking around now, I swear he runs when I am not looking, because all of the sudden he will be on the other side of the house. ANyways:

Also this guy was an unsuspecting chainsaw chain yesterday morning before I beat the crap out of it yesterday. It had to have been at least a three foot bar that this ( Read more... )

I went to my daughters spring clarinet recital today and sat behind one of the most attractive women out of my high school graduating class (10+ years ago if I had graduated). I didn't even have the stones to say so much as say "Hi" let alone "Hey, I remember you! Your name is Angie, right?". Not that we were ever friends, she was popular in school ( Read more... )

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Well like many people I celebrated the first day of the new year sick as a dog and hung over.. But back at work today I started out the year on a new jobsite. A commercial one, a golf course me and half a dozen other people have to tear apart and put back together in 4 months. So it is about 360 degrees from the last job and really a new beginning ( Read more... )

The beauty and glory of the latest addition to my caffeine shrine is somewhat muted by the fact that I can only admire it via candle light, nor can I "take 'er for a spin" since the power has been out all day. Other than that it is kind of nice doing everything by candle light, and getting to basically do whatever I want at work just to keep busy ( Read more... )