{"id":2254,"date":"2008-12-05T19:27:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T00:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hogonice.com\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2008-12-05T19:27:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T00:27:46","slug":"the-anal-retentive-handyman-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2254","title":{"rendered":"The Anal-Retentive Handyman™ Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll Just Get my Protractor and Line up These Wrenches<\/em><\/p>\n

I am amazing.<\/p>\n

I was reading my router table book–I bought Bill Hylton’s router table book–when I realized the garage was still a mess from all the stuff I did yesterday. So I went out and took all the screws and anchors out of their little packages and stuck them in drawers in the wall organizer thing, and I put a P-Touch label on each drawer! I should put a gold star on my forehead.<\/p>\n

The book is very good. In the front, it says Bill Hylton was an editor before he wrote the book, and he only did it because he couldn’t find anyone else to do it. Maybe that explains why it’s a good book. He knew what bad tool books were like, because he used to fix them.<\/p>\n

The woodworking table I am trying to build magically flattened itself overnight. I guess the pressure of the two-by-six I screwed onto it wore it out. I checked the flatness from front to back–the other direction–and damned if I don’t have another two-by-six to install. Oh, well. That should be easy. I think I’ll put one short board on either side of the router, to compensate for the weakness caused by cutting the hole for the lift.<\/p>\n

It turned out I had some parts for my Grr-ripper I had failed to install, so I put those in, and I took the leftover stuff and put it in a little drawer in my electronics cabinet, marked “GRR-RIPPER.” I am too cool.<\/p>\n

So far I mainly use tools to make things to help me use my tools. But eventually, I will work on something not tool-related. And then you will all go down on your knees and give me my props. Oh, yes. You WILL give me my props. Or at least one. Prop, I mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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