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You will notice that many counties in Kansas are red, but the state is blue... of course, most of the red counties have low populations, whilst the blue counties are the most populous....

I got up pretty early today, around 08:00, weird for me for a Saturday, I know... but there were things that I wanted to do.

Mostly I wanted to go to Harbor Freight, but I went to Boyles used junk store first. Bought a planer hold-down for $2.50 for when I finally get my jointer going... which is something else that I'm gonna work on today. I should have gone out to Sears and got some blades for it, but I forgot to take one out to take with me. The plan was to remove one of the blades before I went out, since Sears and Harbor Freight are on the opposite sides of town. Y'know, save a little gas, heh. But I completely forgot about it.

Hopefully, Karen will be home a little later today, I talked to her yesterday and she was doing OK down in Enid. She was also going to hook up with Jesse and Brenda last night, I think. I'd talked to Jesse Thursday night and he didn't sound very good, his health is continuing to decline to the point that he's unable to work.

I'm starting to get a little bit anxious about building stuff... I've been reading the books, acquiring all of this woodworking knowledge, and so far I haven't done squat with it. Part of the problem is... I've got too many things that I want to do, and I'm just spinning my tires here. I need a swift kick in the ass to get me going, I think.

Anyone up for doing that, heh?

Eh, a good article from the Sacramento Bee...

20:43...
So... I've spent about three hours trying to get the infeed table on my jointer correct. I might just have to try this again when I'm completely sober... there's gotta be a fine point here that I'm missing.

And Karen is finally home!

Yes, I have a wife again, and as usual, it's wonderful.

She and Mom had a good time in Enid, but Karen and Jesse and Brenda didn't get a chance to hook up....

Have I mentioned that I love my shop? I have spent so many years missing a shop... and like I mentioned earlier, I need to get started on some projects. The last time that I had a shop, I was constantly finishing project, but in my older age, I'm having trouble starting them. Perhaps then I didn't really know what I was getting into, and the traps that lay within the projects... so I just bulled my way ahead. I need to get back into that mode, heh.

Woodworking, at least to the degree that I want to accomplish, is quite exacting; brother Jon kinda bragged about being able to work to 1/64 of an inch, and that's what I want to do, and what every woodworker wants to do. And it's not easy... meticulous in every stage, one's mind has to be 100%, at the very least.

And I am afraid of disappointing myself. Nobody else is setting my standards.

Truth be known, I will settle to 1/32 or even 1/16th, dammit.

I have the wood, the knowledge and maybe the skill... well, I can develop the skill... but that takes making mistakes, and that's the part that scares me.

Well, shit. What I gotta do is get out there and start making some sawdust.

Did I mention that I'm really happy that Karen is home? Sitting in her chair watching her recorded shows....

And I'm gonna get to bed early again tonight, due to my project of evening out my day by getting up early on the weekends so that I can get some sleeping consistency....

"To be is to do." -Socrates
"To do is to be." -Jean-Paul Sartre
"Do-be-do-be-do." -Frank Sinatra Anon --- somewhere on the web...
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