Bob_Skurka
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Well the lovely Mrs_Bob packed up the little yappy dog, our daughter and left last evening. Her sister just had emergency gall bladder surgery. Her mom is bedridden. With her sister in the hospital there is nobody home to take care of her mom. So I get an unexpected 10 days alone, well not totally alone, I have my dog to keep me company.
I figured it would be a good time to go spend some quality time in the new garage/shop (which would have been done had it not been for the fence guy and his auger bit who drilled not 1, not 2 but 3 post holes through my data, phone & alarm wires and shattered the electrical conduit but didn't cut the power).
I have 5 large cardboard boxes sitting in the shop containing modual tool cabinets waiting for me to assemble a new router table, table saw table, miter saw table, and 2 extender wings. All came from TOOL DOCK. Their stuff is very nice, but I didn't realize how much of a PITA it is to put it together. I have another piece, but it was already assembled when I got it so I figured that was the way all of it should be. Apparently not the new stuff??? I worked from dinner until dark assembling ONE of the pieces. I believe I am 1/2 way done. I figured I could do 2 each evening. I am now of the belief that with the lovely Mrs_Bob gone for ONLY 10 days, I will be lucky to get 1/2 of these assembled! Oh and the temps on Sunday & Monday are projected to be HUMID and 100 and 99 degrees respectively so I seriously doubt I will be working in the garage on either of those days.
In fact I know I won't be working on them Sunday because I was "volunteered" to work the deep fat fryer for the church festival Sunday. They have people working 2 hour shifts. To keep me from getting bored while she is gone, the lovely Mrs_Bob "volunteered" me to work 3 back to back shifts from 9 am to 3 pm. In a tent. On a humid 100 degree day. So if anyone wants to come by to see how much weight I can lose before passing out from heat exhaustion, just show up Sunday at the St Edward's Catholic Church for our festival in Lowell, IN. You'll be able to find it by following the ambulances that will be there taking away heat stroke victims!
I figured it would be a good time to go spend some quality time in the new garage/shop (which would have been done had it not been for the fence guy and his auger bit who drilled not 1, not 2 but 3 post holes through my data, phone & alarm wires and shattered the electrical conduit but didn't cut the power).
I have 5 large cardboard boxes sitting in the shop containing modual tool cabinets waiting for me to assemble a new router table, table saw table, miter saw table, and 2 extender wings. All came from TOOL DOCK. Their stuff is very nice, but I didn't realize how much of a PITA it is to put it together. I have another piece, but it was already assembled when I got it so I figured that was the way all of it should be. Apparently not the new stuff??? I worked from dinner until dark assembling ONE of the pieces. I believe I am 1/2 way done. I figured I could do 2 each evening. I am now of the belief that with the lovely Mrs_Bob gone for ONLY 10 days, I will be lucky to get 1/2 of these assembled! Oh and the temps on Sunday & Monday are projected to be HUMID and 100 and 99 degrees respectively so I seriously doubt I will be working in the garage on either of those days.
In fact I know I won't be working on them Sunday because I was "volunteered" to work the deep fat fryer for the church festival Sunday. They have people working 2 hour shifts. To keep me from getting bored while she is gone, the lovely Mrs_Bob "volunteered" me to work 3 back to back shifts from 9 am to 3 pm. In a tent. On a humid 100 degree day. So if anyone wants to come by to see how much weight I can lose before passing out from heat exhaustion, just show up Sunday at the St Edward's Catholic Church for our festival in Lowell, IN. You'll be able to find it by following the ambulances that will be there taking away heat stroke victims!