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I make no claims regarding how the IRS might feel about this plan.

Also, if your state is anything like my state, you have to pay a yearly property tax on all the equipment which cuts heavily against any savings. On the other hand, if you own an LLC, you can use it to buy an extra $10K in I Bonds which will pay you an extra risk free $962 this year to offset those taxes.

Sapele isn't particularly heavy.

You own sandpaper. Get the Lodge

As long as they were cut nails.

In reality I think I'd glue it as is. Then add a spline/dowel/screw/etc for strength if necessary.

Isn't the correct answer to use a full blind dovetail? https://www.popularwoodworking.com/editors-blog/havent-tried-full-blind-dovetails-time/

https://twitter.com/HannaLiubakova/status/1567051177132494851

At the best of times, pop punk is not my thing. So modern pop punk is probably a pass for me. But as a person with odd taste, I certainly don't begrudge anyone to listen to anything they enjoy. That said, with the horror of the trump years, the appeal of angry nihilism has definitely waned and with it the appeal of any punk rock at all. I'm frankly not sure why anyone listens to anything other than thelonius monk.

https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/1564421734811389952?cxt=HHwWgMCq5e7R-LUrAAAA

Too bad. Would have been a great deal.

I personally wouldn't spend any actual money on an American style jointer. By the time you add a planer, it costs as much as buying a dual jointer/planer, it uses twice the space, and it leaves you with a jointer that's narrower than the planer which is dumb. The small cheap planers make sense for saving money, or the big standalone makes sense in a commercial shop with multiple people working at once, but otherwise I think they're pretty much always the wrong choice.

I always found the opposite to be true. More constraints often yields more interesting results. We all live with the illusion that choice brigs happiness, but in fact choice makes us miserable. #prixfixe

Probably not worth the effort. Even if they re-fix the part they did at their expense, which they obviously should, they'd have to find the actually broken bit which seems difficult since it takes it months to cause a problem. That I'd have to pay for, and I would rather not throw good money after bad at this point. And, the repair shop is a guy barely getting by fixing old TVs out of the first floor of his house. If he's honest, then he did his best and we took a shot. Life is hard and I don't need to make his any more difficult. And if he's not, then I'm not going to win anyway.

Well then. We found a local shop to fix the Panasonic. They replaced the main board and it returned to service for about 3 months. It has now stopped working in exactly the same way as last time which suggests that whatever caused the board to blow is still bad. I don't think it's worth trying again. Too bad.

Issey Miyake Dies at 84 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/fashion/issey-miyake-dead.html Missed this a few days ago. Of significance for me as Erika had an Issey Miyake dress as her wedding dress.

If pretentious is a synonym for terrible, then we agree.

It's spelled Yacht Rock, but how is it pronounced? https://vimeo.com/618100982

Burt Metcalfe, show runner for ‘M*A*S*H,’ dies at 87 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/arts/television/burt-metcalfe-dead.html

Happy Birthday!

Happy belated birthday. Hope you have a second good one.

I really want to like this, but I can't listen to anything Steve Albini records. edit: I'll add that I like what SA has to say, I just don't like how he records.

Ha! Is anything from my list then still in my list now? Maybe one. Probably none. I dare say I haven't listened to at least three of them since. edit: that said, I could listen to the Merry Clayton parts of Gimme Shelter daily for the rest of my life. The rest of it? Meh.