A weblog about stuff and junk by Jake Sutton
This evening, I got the urge to try and make a wallet out of Gorilla Tape. I’d call the project a definite success (especially considering this was a first go at it), but the result won’t be replacing my usual wallet.
Related note: I like the new Craft magazine even more than I enjoy it’s big brother, Make.
Last Saturday, the Wife, Mother-in-Law, and I hosted a holiday dinner soiree at the Sutton abode. Good times were had by all.
A few notes/highlights:
If you didn’t get invited and think you should have been, I apologize deeply.
Don’t take it personally, though, OK? Good. 
The hard work (thankfully) is done. The grout needs to cure a bit and then the whole thing needs to be sealed (and then we have to move all our crap back in there).
I love it (and still hate it for what it did to me).
What’d you do today, Jake?
Well, kids, I’ll tell ya…
Good times.
First a floor update: After taking yesterday off completely thanks to the chill I caught on the motorbike and general laziness (it is a vacation, after all), I came out firing today. First, I scooted around on the subfloor removing the remaining staples from the carpet pad. After that bag o’ fun, I scooted around on the subfloor some more, this time sanding the seams of the OSB to flatten them out enough for the mortar bed not to mind. After a bunch of sweeping and vacuuming and choking on the dust (I’m positively covered…), I finally got around to measuring out a standard centerline by centerline layout and giving it a bit of a dry fit test, as demonstrated below (see also: my Flickr set for this project):
Office Slate Project: Testing the Layout SW
Originally uploaded by Jake Sutton.
Car update: The mechanic tells me “there’s definitely something wrong in the clutch area” of my Rodeo. So he’s going to drop the tranny and see what’s what. His initial guess (which covers a new clutch and clutch fork) is about $1400. Sadly, this is almost exactly the number I was expecting. Here’s hoping it doesn’t grow much.
One from teh intarweb: Seriously? People worry about this crap? Myself, I don’t sign off personal emails at all. If it’s someone I don’t know that well or haven’t been in touch with recently I might end with “- Jake”. On rare occasions, I’ll toss in a “Cheers” or “Ta”. Work emails generally just get the hyphen-space-name treatment.
Keep an eye on my Flickr photos for updates on my latest home improvement project: tiling the office with slate tile.
Office Slate Project: Subfloor NE
Originally uploaded by Jake Sutton.
This is only somewhat hampered by the fact that my car broke yesterday (on the way back from fetching the remainder of my slate purchase, in fact) — clutch went bye-bye. We’ll see that that going to do to me tomorrow, hopefully.
Good times.
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