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.