Friday

Got the drawers done today on the new cabinets in the shop. This is actually one of the cabinets I had done. It has drawers for all of my air tools and the brads and staples for each.

This is a corner shot of that cabinet and the new one.

These drawers are lined with the pool table felt that Harbach gave me last time I was up there.

Here is the whole cabinet. The top will have a few hundred holes in it to be used as a down draft table. It is hooked up and ready to go, I just need to get the holes drilled.

The part on the right has a shelf where I keep the sanders and also the biscuit jointer. I am not sure what I will do with the space under that shelf. That will be later on....
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I think we really need one of these for our pond.

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Travis will jump anything. This dude is just nuts.

If you don't believe me, here is more proof:
Travis Pastrana hydro-jump

Thursday

Hey, it is really Friday for me. I took tomorrow off :-) Gonna get some stuff done around here tomorrow and the weekend. Nice.
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Hey, it is an R/C bug! I love this quote from a true geek telling why they chose the rhino beetle for their subject: They can fly carrying the module weighing about 1.3g on their backs. And another reason is that they look cool, according to the university.

Sunday

Just in case you thought only the government could flush $70K down the toilet. STORY
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Random picture of the day brought to you by Fox.

I got this in an e-mail the other day:
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Interesting Statistics

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law,
St. Paul, Minnesota, points out facts of 2008 Presidential election:

Number of States won by:
Democrats: 19
Republicans: 29

Square miles of land won by:
Democrats: 580,000
Republicans: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by:
Democrats: 127 million
Republicans: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Democrats: 13.2
Republicans: 2.1
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That sounded wrong, so I googled it. Turns out that this e-mail went out four years ago:
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Gore vs. Bush

Population of counties won by Gore: 127 million
Population of counties won by Bush: 143 million
Square miles of country won by Gore: 580,000
Square miles of country won by Bush: 2,427,000
States won by Gore: 19
States won by Bush: 29
Average Murder per 100,000 residents in counties won by Gore: 13.2
Average Murder per 100,000 residents in counties won by Bush: 2.1
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You might notice that the names are changed, but the numbers are exactly the same. Wow, what are the odds of that?

Friday

I don't know where they got the name Chickenfoot, but it should be an interesting band.

respect

So I am driving home today and I see some poor slobs wearing ugly ass Statue of Liberty outfits along side the road waving like fools. Not the ones in the photo below, I stole that off of the net, but just like that. Every time I drive by them I think to myself how degrading that must be. But every time I also think how much I respect them for going out on a cold Iowa day to a crappy degrading job for what I am sure is very little money. It would be much easier to sit around and bitch about things and expect for somebody to give it to them like many here in IC. Like the guy on the same corner in the median with the "BROKE-ANYTHING HELPS" sign begging for change from passing motorist while if you look directly behind him you will see a "HELP WANTED" sign at the restaurant 3 buildings down. If you need change, how about this: WORK FOR A LIVING. That would be a change, yes?
And, what the hell kind of tax service uses stunts like this to promote business? Does this make you want to turn over your financial records to this place? A friend of mine did one year and she said it seemed like the year before she got a lot more. I suggested having H&R Block look it over because I knew they do it for free if they don't find more money. They found about $1,400 more.

Iowa City, the perfect city.

It seems that Iowa City is SO perfect that they have time to worry about stupid crap. Banning plastic bags, busting smokers and huggers. Most cities don't have time to worry about such things.
Now they want to make so cops can run breath tests on the bands playing in bars. I feel better now. Morons.