Tcepsa's Thoughts

I was up until two this morning working on a desk and honing my woodworking skills.

I learned the following lessons:

1. Ryobas are awesome.
2. It's really easy to get sidetracked for a couple of hours making wooden jaws for your vice.
3. As awesome as ryoba are, they're not good for making right-angled internal cuts. They are, however, fantastic for making parallel cuts to help chop out the joint, which should then be done with a hammer and chisel.
4. I need a bigger chisel.
5. I can simultaneously chop out a joint and help revise applications over AIM after midnight.
6. Tearout sucks. I need to be more careful when chopping out joints and do a deeper prechop at the inside edge of the side that I'm not chopping from.
7. Staying up until 2 AM on a school night really sucks, but it still may have been worth it...
8. I really love projects like this, especially now that I'm getting to the point where my workspace is set up to facilitate them more

Even with the fact that I am bleary and feel like I have little to no energy or motivation today, it's a sort of content bleary lethargy. While I was working (once I got past the hassles with the vice), I was in that space that feels like it's got boundless energy. I stopped at 2 AM but I felt like I could have gone for a couple of hours more if I wasn't already going to be regretting it today. I want to explore that more!