It's Friday! - 9/20/2013 Edition

Darren Wright

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Well, another week down. Weekend isn't starting too bad, but got a speeding ticket earlier today in a part of town I'm never in. Got busted for 50 in a 35, which I thought was 45. Looks like I'll be doing some baby sitting for the SIL (my lawyer) to cover her time. Should be cool enough this weekend to get out in the shop. Have some drawers waiting on me to build them. Also have some walls to get patched up. Have to take it somewhat easy, been fighting a head cold for about a week now, has moved into my chest.

What's everyone else got going?
 
Got a gig tonight at the Dragonhorn Tavern, one of our regular venues. I'll get to road test a guitar that I gutted and re-wired earlier this week. Also taking my on again/off again Variax, which has been in the shop twice recently with an intermittent problem. It's been working at home for the past few days, so odds are that it'll go out at a critical point in some song tonight. :rolleyes: I also get to debut the newly-decorated Strat with its David Gilmour-style black pickguard and white knobs and pickups. :D

Saturday I'm planning to hang out at the State Fair (about a mile from my apartment) and stick around for the rodeo and concert by Eli Young.

Nothing on the books for Sunday yet other than sleep.
 
I'm home with a sick kid and I'm heading that way too. Gonna be a low key weekend for me. Weather is perfect too...:banghead:

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Working tonight 6-10 and Saturday 9-3. After work picking up the wife and going to BJ's for a few items. Probably hit our local Chinese place after shopping and have my weekly Zombie :thumb:

Sunday. after Church, I have to fertilize and reseed the lawn. I've been playing ball with my dog and he has torn up the front lawn pretty badly.
So far I've made 2 sample boxes on the Ibox and have it dialed in pretty well. I'll start on a few boxes that my kids have "ordered" sometime Sunday.
I only work 4 hour shifts next week So I'm looking forward to getting my RAS set up. Plans for the Deerfield are also in order for next week. I love watching the Woodmiser guys saw up lumber :)
 
Well we got a BBQ we hosting tomorrow. So for the first time i am smoking a pork shoulder for my friends with the new smoker. Wish me luck. Got the shoulder in a brine going to smoke it low temp starting eeeaarrrly morning.:)
Then having already cut the lawn in the semi dark tonight i become mechanic again in the morn. :) Giving our Dodge Caravan a workover before winter gets here.
Hope to get some shop time Sunday and get my set of shelves done but now the way Rich Sorby suggested thanks Rich i hope i understand what you said about that edge.



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cleaning out some old cabinets, some closets, help the wife clean the house, poly some work in the garage, oil up some cutting boards in the garage, work on some pens, bottle stoppers, then clean up the house a bit more. Lots of grocery shopping to do, pharmacy run, a day of errand for me and the wife, and lousy housework.
Were not going to be here each weekend in oct, we want to get ahead a bit.
 
Working on getting the third trailer ready for the road. Move day is Sept. 30. Also getting ready for a family visit. And then there is work. Trying hard not to have a short-timer's attitude. ;)
 
Final two day countdown till the sailboat hits the roads of Nevada down to Lake Mead for a week on the lake (all thanks to the Ambassador :thumb:). Unfortunately I had a 90 hour work week so a little behind on finishing up sewing the custom V-berth sheets and putting everything back on the boat. Hopefully the next two days of stress will be mellowed by a sweet downwind sail to a nice cove with lots of fishing, sunning, reading, swimming, and absolutely no internet connectivity :crash::crash::crash:
 
Saturday I'll spend a little time in the shop, mostly with the continued re-organization. I've been adding some shelves and pullouts under my table saw benches. LOML is scheduled to pick up a cat from the Miss Kitty rescue group this morning. Friends will drop by later this afternoon for a little visit.

Sunday should be a relaxing day for both of us. We need the rest!!!!!
 
Well my wife talked me into baking a special sheet cake for the ambassadors BD, so this afternoon is baking time, tonight is PARTY time, tomorrow is shop cleaning from my last project...looks like a tornado hit my shop:eek:
 
Well, other than coughing up my lungs due to a chest cold, I got diddly done this weekend. Well, I did play with the new guitar pedals some. :)

Hope everyone else had a better weekend.
 
Hope you'e doing better. You need to move to the boonies. I go 5 years between colds anymore...of course it takes a really bad one to get my goat, and then I suffer

I keep pushing the "work from home" angle, but higher ups are insistent that we drive in every day. Of course with the politics of the biz that face time is kind of important, but wouldn't mind still reducing my drive time by a few days a week.
 
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