New Workbench

Well, I moved to Texas recently, and I finally have a garage!  It's a great work area, but it sorely needed a bench.  So while my Dad was down visiting and helping me get moved in, we spent a couple hours whipping one up.  It came together great, and I'm thrilled with it already.

It was based loosely on this design:

This is how it came out:

Sorry for the washed out pics, I hung some overhead florescent lights, and combined with the reflective white pegboard they make for awesome task lighting.  Not so great for photos though.

Hockey!

I know it doesn't really fit the theme of the blog, but my winter hockey team won the NESHL D league metro-boston championship over the winter, which was awesome. Great group of guys!

and just in case nobody believes I was actually there, here's the line from my game-winning overtime playoff goal (yes, it was my only goal of the playoffs, but it was a big one!):


D league hero right there :P

time lapse smoker brain building

here's a little time-lapse I made of me building 4 smoker brains for family members (it's added to the original smoker post as well)