Dear Friends: Tomorrow is all about me1! I’m taking the day off work because I have some appointments, including my yearly physical and a massage. My goal is to try to chill the fuck out for a while. I’m going to eat only superhealthy food and work on projects I enjoy and go to the gym (you may say this ...

Hello there. A few random notes for this evening, before I retire. – I have a used tube of CLUBMAN moustache wax on my table. Does that turn you on? – I sanded so much tonight I can barely feel my right hand. I tried it with the left, but the sander tended to spring away from me and skitter ...

Dear Friends, I win, you win. Or something. Alex manipulated me into creating an RSS feed for this very website, so that he wouldn’t have to go to the trouble of opening a browser window and clicking a bookmark. He wants my deeply absorbing observations delivered to him right this very moment, and he won’t accept anything less. He got ...

Man. I haven’t written in a while, and therefore I suck. OK, woodshop. Last night I learned about relief cuts and the massive saw curf created by my close friend, the radial arm saw. I’m making peace with the band saw, too, although I still have bad feelings towards the table saw. One of these days we’ll all start getting ...