Workin’ for the weekend

June 29th, 2008 • chatter
Tags: building, good magazine, weekend, work

As iconic as Loverboy’s hit from the 80s is, I’m actually doing some work this week and not simply working towards it! I found a nice tall piece of 1/4″ pressed plywood today — it looks like thick wood paneling — that will go great with the found-in-a-dump wood I’m going to use for my hookah stand (most of that wood went towards making a spice box). Now I just need to cut the thin wood and find suitable mounting. I’ve got some small right angle wood brackets for the actual stand that’s for the hookah but nothing for this new wood which I’ll use to make small shelves for all of the shisha and accessories I have. I just need to plan this carefully as I’ve only got so much of this wood to use so I can’t afford any mistakes and I certainly don’t want to buy any wood.

Tomorrow I’m also hooking up my brand new Luhr-Jensen smoker to smoke a pound of Atlantic salmon, a pound of mahi mahi, and a massive 4 pound free range chicken. I can just taste it all now. I’ve also got to change the oil in my car which I did in the Focus today and man, was it HOT today. I was only outside for maybe an hour and I was dripping in sweat, I can only imagine the same fate befalls me tomorrow. Hopefully I’ll start the day off right with tasty breakfast burritos I’ve been begging the girlfriend to make, now I’ve made that request complete with some spicy salsa verde. I may have to sacrifice one of those delectable dried peppers for this meal, they would compliment so well.

I also managed to pick up the latest copy of GOOD Magazine since my subscription starts with the next issue and I’m totally thrilled about a travel issue. I sent the China Issue off to my dad to see what he thinks about the magazine and see if he likes it, maybe I’ll send him this one as well.

And for now, it’s 2AM and I’m off to finish up some feed reading and head to sleep.