Woodworking fun

This week in my wood-shop, I have been building a little shoe rack for the closet upstairs. This particular shoe-rack is a little different, as the top shelf will be flush with the top so that our laundry baskets can sit on top of it. This week, I have a new tool in my shop, a router. This has allowed me to finish all the edges on the sides and the selves with a nice round. I have also invested the time on this project to finish sand the wood going from 80 grit through 120, 220 and 400. The wood is finished with two application of lemon oil and a dose of pledge. The last step in the project is assembly, but I am hot and pooped. Working outside today was exhausting because of the oppressive heat. I will post pictures as soon as I can of the finished item.

Woe is me

The shoe rack so doesn't fit. It's too big. I figured, three baskets next to each, that means we've got six feet to play with. Somehow there were three baskets in a space about 3' 10" wide. My 4' shoe rack doesn't go. I have moved one of the set of draws out of the way but I think I'm going to have to unscrew, and chop it down a bit.

Backup woes

I have an iMac. Fortunately I don't have any important data on it. I backed it up to Time Machine. Every time I launch the migration assistant, it crashes my time machine. What a pain in the ass. I just updated it to the latest firmware and it's still happening. I have a mac in a partial state of loadedness because the time machine crapped out half way through a restore when I rebooted. Add to that that my flaky iMac can't see my other backup device for no apparent reason, and I'm pretty much back to 0. Time to re-install the world. Oh goody.