( The work begins with the foundation: )

Bought a literal truckload of lumber today. Completely filled the bed of my brother's truck with plywood and boards. The only things I haven't bought yet are the roof materials, the door, and some gravel for leveling the foundation blocks. Have to pick up some gravel tomorrow and get started. One week of decent weather before another storm comes in ( Read more... )

Bought a copy of Talisman (4th ed.) yesterday, spent all afternoon playing it with Summer and Steven. I won. :) Much impressed by the game - definitely worth the rather steep cover price of $60 (hooray for 10% off sales at Viking Hobby though!) considering its high replay value and the length of time it takes to play a game. I imagine with a larger ( Read more... )

( Here's the pics of the finished garden box: )

So I managed to get quite a bit of work done on the garden box project this afternoon.

( Photos behind the cut! )

Picked up Dead Space and Mirror's Edge last weekend. I had played both demos and was keen to get the full games. Only played through the first chapter of Dead Space so far, but it's got an interesting story behind it. Mirror's Edge is going to be the more challenging of the two games, if only because of the huge array of possible moves and paths ( Read more... )

Clear weather today meant I busted out the miter saw and the redwood when I got home. I cut almost all the pieces for Summer's raised-bed garden box, including the 4 miters on the top rail. (Note to DIYers following along at home: a 10" miter saw will not make a full cut when making a 45-degree miter on the end of a 2x6 - you'll fall short by about ( Read more... )

My new (well, reconditioned, but new to me) compound miter saw arrived today! It's got a frickin' laser beam on it. I am stoked. Tomorrow I'm gonna hit up Home Depot to buy some redwood. This will become the wife's planter box for a little garden she wants to grow. Then in a few weeks, after the ground dries out a bit, I'll start putting in the ( Read more... )

Finished planning the materials list and design for my "modular" workshop shed. It's about $720 worth of lumber and parts. Just ordered a 10" compound miter saw to facilitate building this structure. Need to work out what kind of nails, screws, and assorted hardware I'll need. Then I'll just need it to stop raining so the ground can dry a bit and I ( Read more... )

Watched Zack and Miri, Persepolis, and In Bruges this week. All 3 were decent flicks, but not particularly stand-out.

Zack and Miri seemed to have all its funny up front and then focused on their relationship for the last half. Neither part of the movie was bad, but I think Kevin Smith could have done a better job blending the elements of the story ( Read more... )