Friday, December 15, 2006

Getting closer to Christmas....

The Ridgid saw arrived and I've already used it up at the Millay Colony barn renovation. Very nice saw. Well designed and lightweight. Comfortable to use. I'm happy with it, and the price was great. Thanks guys! I think they still have about half the saws remaining.

I was just interviewed and asked what my favorite sites and magazines were. I decided to put the answer up here also.


"Make Mag and MakeZine, Instructables, Power Wagon Advertiser, Jalopy Junktown, Retro Thing, Fine Woodworking, Toolmonger, Cool Tools, Hack a Day, 2600, CPU, Nuts and Volts are favorite magazines/websites"

Make, the Power Wagon Advertiser, Fine Woodworking, 2600, CPU, and Nuts and Volts are also great magazines. I should mention that James Grahame over at Retro Thing put out an excellent book called "Essential Retro". If you like his site, buy his book! Buy it direct from him though, he'll get more money and probably give you a better price.

You'll notice a serious lack of "spiritual, or Christian" links. That might seem strange, but I like the www for information and casual communication, but leave my spiritual development to face to face encounters. It's how Jesus met me, so I try and model that behavior. I do try and "be salt and light" as I communicate with people, and don't shy away from telling people that I'm a Christian. I just know how imperfect communication can be in this medium and I don't want to become a "stumbling block".

I think we're going out to Newton, MA this weekend. We'll miss our home church, but we'll be fellowshipping with the Nolands and their church group. Should be fun. The Rockler store out that way is having a sale, maybe I can convince Oleg (his family is going too) and John to check it out.

Sunday, December 3, 2006

It was a good Sunday

Well, today's teaching went well at church, although it was less a discussion of the Theory of Evolution and more an exhortation on Faith. It might lead to more teachings, as it was well received by the body.

My Instructable on making nice wooden swords made it onto the Make Blog today too. That was a nice surprise.

And I won a Ridgid circular saw on Toolmonger! That was definitely more than a nice surprise. I think they have another 23-24 to give away.