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what one should do on a Black Friday weekend
Sunday, November 26 2017
While Gretchen was off at the bookstore working on what was proving to be a very busy Black Friday weekend, I managed to get a lot of work done here on the homefront. I started out working on the screened-in porch project, further buttoning-down the truss that forms the structural basis of its east (farthest from the house) end. But it was a bit cold to be working outside and eventually there was a carriage bolt I needed but didn't have, so I moved inside. For some reason my brain was full of ideas for subtle tweaks to a web-based tool for my day job (that is, what I should've not been working on on a Black Friday weekend). But I've learned to go with my inspiration whenever it comes; I can do whatever I "should have" been doing some other time. And what was that thing? Watching teevee? Check! Throughout the day I managed to watch the rest of the last (4th) season of Halt and Catch Fire, often while doing other things simultaneously. The monotonous job of cutting about fifty segments of half inch pipe (part of the prep work for building one of my copper pipe menorahs) is a perfect idle-hands task while watching teevee, particularly a show that is dialog-heavy. I have to glance down occasionally to position the cutter on the marks I'd made along the pipe. But then I perform the act of cutting (rotating the pipe with one hand while gradually tightening the cutting rollers) while never having to look. Having to make so many identical cuts has me thinking there has to be a faster, more accurate way (one that doesn't leave blisters in the palm of my left hand). But all the cutting methods I can find online involve abrasive cutters, which produce a lot of ground-up dust. It took me a little over an hour to cut the fifty or so pieces I needed. (I could tell because of the number of episodes of Halt and Catch Fire I watched as I worked.)
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