Another Sunday at Home

I thought I was going to church tonight. God keeps telling me not to join a church, but when I asked if I could visit, it was another story. I thought tonight was the night.

I looked around on Google, and I found a Spirit-filled place that looked okay. I decided to try their 6 p.m. service. I got a shirt out and started ironing it. Then I looked at a video.

They were singing in Spanish.

I have done the ethnic church thing. I was an armorbearer and all-around slave at a Haitian church, and then I was an armorbearer, deacon, and doormat at a Puerto Rican church. I’m not ready to go down that road again.

I found that black churches don’t just tolerate hypocrisy; they expect it. How you act at home means nothing as long as you jump up and down and pretend to care about God at church. I found out that Puerto Rican churches are full of emotional people who get angry over nothing and can’t accept correction. There was way too much loud music, screaming, and rolling on the floor at both churches. I’m ready to sit among people who are a little less inclined to histrionics.

I don’t want to go to another church where everyone pretends to know the Holy Spirit yet thinks Barack Obama is practically Jesus. I can’t deal with Christians who are so ignorant they think Jesus was a leftist.

I looked at some other websites, and then I decided to let it go. I got up and finished putting the new handle in my axe.

I have to say that I think I did a really good job. I haven’t used the axe yet, but it looks great.

I was considering using a wood-swelling product to make the head stick to the handle better. I even bought some. The chemical in wood-swellers is dipropylene glycol. You mix it with water in four-to-one ratio. Wood-swelling products are very expensive, but pure dipropylene glycol is fairly cheap on Ebay. I ordered a bottle. I also bought a gallon jug of RV antifreeze at Tractor Supply, for $2.50. Some brands contain dipropylene glycol. I thought I might install the axe handle and then soak the head in antifreeze for a while. RV antifreeze is not like the antifreeze in your car. It’s food-safe. It’s used to protect freshwater pipes.

I finally installed it the old-fashioned way. I coated the wedge in wood glue, pounded it in, cut off the excess with a coping saw, and sanded the top of the handle to make it look nice. Here is the result.

I may soak it tomorrow anyway. Can’t hurt, right?

RV antifreeze is diluted dipropylene glycol. The stuff I ordered is pure. I have a second axe head on the way, and I plan to use the pure stuff on it.

Assuming the handle I bought is sound, I think the axe I fixed up today should be very pleasant to use.

It’s nice to know I did it right. Thank God for Youtube. When it comes to hanging axes, the world is full of BS, and the people who spread it make themselves sound highly confident.

They remind me of preachers.