I’ve received a few suicide notes from Sidecarsally readers who just couldn’t endure the lack of updates lately. I suppose I owe the victims’ families an explanation.

With all the building construction happening nearby, there are countless discarded two-by-fours (wood) laying around. Some of lumber is twisted and has nails sticking out of it. Sometimes it looks like a carpenter fucked up half-way through building a deck. But among the scraps are some salvageable beams, and I just can’t let them go to waste.

The reason I haven’t been updating as much is because I have been building things — out of wood. Today I built a workbench. It’s made from 80% salvaged wood, 18% newly purchased plywood, and 2% screws to hold it all together (I include everything when I break shit down into percentages). Here’s the finished product:

Don’t look to closely at this picture, or you may go blind from the pure awesomeness of it.

Pretty fucking impressive, huh? I built the entire thing pretty much by hand (I used my foot once) — without the use of any tools whatsoever, unless you consider a Hitachi circular saw a tool, which I don’t because no other tools give me a raging boner when I use them.