OK, maybe the title of this post sends the reader off on the wrong trail. I'm a very boring person, so the end of the sentence is ...build bookends.
Yep, Tuesday afternoon I grabbed my tools, bought paint, sandpaper, wood glue and got some lumber cut then headed to a motel in Manchester, TN to get to work:
The sanded them over a bag to catch the dust, then organized pieces of wood.
TV:
Sports
cent
er &
BBC News
Then I got to painting them
bright colors, again on more plastic bags. I love painting things. I only
splattered paint once and it was on the black mini-fridge. Luckily it wiped clean. Phew.
TV:
Chopped
Drying for a few hours.
No TV:
Sleep
The next morning I
woke up early on my own, two hours before my alarm because building bookends is fun. I glued the tower parts to each other after touching up the paint a bit. I also
fixed a hole I had accidentally made in one of the blocks, because I'm just that
coordinated.
TV:
Mike & Mike in the Morning (ESPN)
Finally I attached the towers to the green slab backing.
TV:
Little League World Series!
Then I packed each end into a black bag for safe keeping and drove to Nashville to watch
Anna-Lisa knock the dissertating socks off of her committee.
4 comments:
This, my friend, is why you will always be cooler than me.
I love the bookends, and I LOVE the narrative. :-)
How did I not see this post till now? Warms my heart, you building bookends in a motel with an ESPN soundtrack.
And the result was AWESOMENESS! The result of your project, not my defense. Best. Bookends. EVER.
I dunno, to have your committee say, "we were just in here singing your praises," is a pretty cool way to top off your excellent defense. So maybe the defense tied with the surprisingly heavy bookends.
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