Way less interesting then the previous post
by taj | Dec 23, 2008 |
Here’s a random post for you…
I’ve had a couple rainy days here in Austin and so I decided to work on a little arts and craft project.
Building things like these wooden shelves and cat climbing towers is a guilty pleasure of mine.
Whenever I grow up I think I’d like to be a carpenter and learn how to build these kinds of things the right way (straight, level, sturdy… ha!).
This one is doubling as my Christmas tree this year. Christmas is kind of lame in Austin. It supposed to be 75 degrees and its impossible for me to feel Christmas-ey without snow and fireplaces and such.
I’ve been building these for a few years. I’ve built a bunch of free standing ones and ones with nice carpeted perchs for kitties to chill on. This one is in my living room for my roommate’s cats.
This one is on the back porch… its an escape from Roscoe if they need it.
Anyway, Joe Rich suggested I build an entertainment center to match the cat tower in my living room.
It’s a fun project and when I’m finished I’m always amazed at what you can do with just one sheet of plywood and some basic tools.
Jigsaw cutting and sanding…
Finish nail gun (or screws) and stain…
And there we go, my new entertainment center… complete with a stand for my totally swanky rabbit ear antenna!
I haven’t been posting much this last week because I’ve been downloading Top Gear seasons. I found them on a torrent site, but they are downloading sooooooo slow. I really don’t know much about the way those torrent sites work, but it took almost 4 days to download a season. I’m sure I’m doing something wrong. Totally my favorite show of the moment its not easy to get in the US unless you have the BBC America (which my rabbit ears can’t seem to pick up).
The downloads are killing my computer though… and getting online is such a drag. Just now though, I realized that most of the episodes are on BBC’s youtube channel. Oh well…
Hope you all are having a good holidays.
December 24th, 2008 on 3:18 pm
dude! top gear, such a great show, I love how Jeramey can come up with a analogy for every thing. they are making one in the US, kinda afraid it will be just like every American TV show, they will like every new car they test, wont pick on anything. we will see tho.
anyway cool plywood stuff. looked a bit weird when you look at just one. but those last two pics bring it together, def cool.
did you do the art on the skateboards?
December 25th, 2008 on 12:45 am
Great blog.
Top Gear is the best. A season and bit more is available on iTunes, but they are missing some of “the news” and I think some of the star in car interview. A whole season is very large so will take some time.