Sunday Morning Musings

This last week it became much clearer just how much of a boring life I live. It's one of the main reasons I don't blog as much any more. I simply have nothing much to say. I avoid network news at all times and only read some very selective feeds. I listen to audiobooks to and from work, and while these take me to the far corners of the world, it's their words not mine. I come home from work tired and often quite stressed, and spend much of the workday evenings watching Youtube or reading. The weekends start with early morning walks with Roxy, David and Eliot at the lake followed by as many hours as I can physically stand in the shop in what seems like a constant battle to improve my woodworking/lutherie skills. Don't get me wrong I am quite happy in my lot. I have a little disposable income to waste on tools that I will probably never gain the skills to use perfectly. Talking about tools, I recently really overdid it.

I have been eyeing the Nova 58000 drill press for more than a year now. It's got all sorts of bells and whistles, including a LCD display and a direct drive motor (no belts to change for differing speeds). But it's not cheap. I finally concluded that I needed some joy and ordered one this week. It will take a week or two to be shipped, and of course now I have a touch of buyers remorse. It's not normal for me, as I don't usually second guess my decisions and just deal. Still this thing is way, way more than I could possibly need. Hopefully it will bring me as much joy as I get each time I use the way overkill Laguna bandsaw, which was the last extravagant tool purchase.

So here we are. We should be in Israel enjoying a daily falafel from Gabai. One of the reasons I was OK to drop all that cash on a drill press is that the amount of money it's costing to keep rebooking these tickets ($300 a time) is coming close to the tool cost and worse there is nothing to show for it.

If anyone is in need of an nice old Grizzly G1200 floor standing drill press in reasonable condition (I recently changed out the bearings), I have one  looking for a good home. The time changed last night and it's nearly 7am and quite light out. Roxy is getting restless, it's time to go to the lake.

Roxy giving me the eye cause she knows it's time for the Lake