Remainders: Elevator table

Elevator table
Originally uploaded by electric counterpoint.

• The elevator table is built, and looks okay. You can see it there, and there’s another photo up on Flickr. For better or worse, I think it’s a good reflection of my abilities as a carpenter.
• Takeaway life lesson: glass table tops are really expensive. I priced out several glass options, along with Plexiglass (scratches too easily) and poured acrylic (too heavy). In the end, Jessica and I lucked out by finding the pictured sheet of 1/4″ glass, 2′x3′, at Owosso’s Goodwill, for two bucks. That’s obscenely fortunate, I realize.
• Also lucky: finding a decent pair of speakers (Marantz 900s) nearby. To be clear, the luck didn’t come from finding the speakers (like pianos, decent speaker sets from about twenty-five years ago turn up all the time for free on Craigslist), it came in finding the forty-pound pair of speakers two doors down from my apartment. They’re beat up, but they sound great!
• I finished Dave Eggers’ book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius a few days ago. It’s uneven, and the author’s right when he warns that you should really only read the first hundred-odd pages. Still, it was worth reading.