...having access to a Shopbot CNC router can be dangerous to one's sanity.
First the (7yo) daughter suggests that, well, she'd like to do
sleepovers but that really means she needs more room and a bunk bed
might be a good idea. Mommy agrees so Daddy's sent off to make sawdust:
http://www.milleredp.com/~jem/image/misc/bunkbed.jpg
Along the way, Daddy concludes that since he's already fallen off the
deep end building a five-drawer chest he may as well do some cabinets to
fill the grubbily underutilized space under his workbench:
http://www.milleredp.com/~jem/image/misc/shopcabs.jpg
And, the old saying goes that things happen in threes, at least over the
last week free stuff happened that way, first was a Systech network
serial-port server from a friend cleaning out his shelves, then came the
'86 Celica (turns out to need a fuel pump, so not truly free...) and
today I picked up a clean but quite old 10x36 Logan lathe from a fellow
local Lion who, after a couple hours of chat about his past career,
turned out to have been (as nearly as I can peg it) my older
(now-deceased) brother's junior high school metal shop teacher nearly
fifty years ago.
John.
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