Donald Trump now officially has all the delegates to get the nomination.
Why do I feel like the dr. has just told me it's terminal?
We have a woman with ethics problems and unacceptable positions on almost every social issue under discussion, and a man with an ego and little else, including any sense of decorum.
How is it that this is the best they can do? Shouldn't at least one of the parties been able to get a candidate that isn't pathological?
After the coffee shop and a trip into town I worked on the desk top. I finished it except for varnishing and I'm having second thoughts about that. I'd planned a semi-gloss, but seeing it done makes me wonder if that's totally inconsistent with the patina of old, weathered wood.
The center is a 3" thick laminated beam that George gave me because it had been sitting outside one of his sheds for years. I had to cut an inch off of one end because it had been sitting in the dirt and had begun to rot. I hit it with the belt sander just enough to clean it off and sand off the ridges in the grain resulting from being in the weather.
Around that I put 1x4 poplar from Lowe's to get the contrast.
Outside of that went 2x4 stock I got from Aurora Mills when we were there Tuesday. Again, I just sanded it enough to clean it up.
The plan was to cut both the poplar and the 2x4 on a 45 at the corners, but I suck at math. It turns out that after adding the poplar the thing was about 1" too big; my 2x4 wasn't long enough. So I had to do right angle joints and the end pieces and overlap them on the long sides.
I wasn't thinking when I took this pic. The long side you're looking at is what will go against the wall, which is why you see the raw edge where I cut it to length. That won't show when it's in Fred.
I mentioned above that I went into town after the coffee shop. I went to a metal shop recommended to me by a welding supply shop I drive by and gave him the dimensions and drawings for the base. He said it would be a week, maybe less. Then he called at 5:00 to say he had it done! So I'll go tomorrow to pick it up (pretty cheap), paint it, and install the top.
A custom desk for under $175, and a pretty nice one at that if I do say so myself.
I think I'm going to have just about the most manly, coolest office on. the. planet.
2 comments:
Is being president like being a wide receiver in the NFL? It requires a certain pathology of arrogance & supremacy in order to get to the elite level at which one can "play" professionally?
I don't know if someone can navigate the political system from local to state to national and come out the other side an honest and humble person anymore. I would guess that it has been this way for a while - but the age of 24 news makes it harder to hide the transgressions that got them higher on the ladder than the others.
We know we've had philanderers ("Happy b'day, Mr. President"), felons (Watergate), gluttons (Taft got stuck in his bathtub) and D: all of the above ("I did not have sex...."), so maybe you're right. But that doesn't make me feel any better about this, or inclined to have any part in the election of either.
It seems like we did have some genuinely good people earlier in this cycle's process. Maybe that's why they didn't survive.
This really is depressing, isn't it.
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