Leavin' on a jet plane

teeka's flight to Charlotte should be leaving about now.

I dropped her off at the airport in Milwaukee 2.5 hours ago , and it took her about 15 minutes to go through check-in and security (but we'd rather have been there early instead of late, anyway).

She's got a layover in Cincinnati, and gets in to Charlotte at about 9pm local time.

I'm off to finish Janet's other speaker stand (we finished one of them and the speaker stand and then loaded them into her truck last night). We're doing the sanding, staining, and varnishing in Janet's garage, because she wanted to keep our garage from filling with even more dust so that when Teeka gets back she can go back to using it for glass-working.

Checking in

teeka just called to say she made it to Cincinnati, and is now waiting the 90+ minutes until her next flight.

I turned on voice posting for her, so you may hear something from her as well.

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I got a phone call not long ago telling me that a crazy lady and a pack of wild dobermans were on their way to the airport to get my wife.

I'm not really worried. crzmslmaven isn't that crazy, and Tinkerbell and Beowulf (the dobermans in question) can look ferocious, and have way too much energy at times, but they're both really nice puppies. Crzmslmaven's taking them to the airport ahead of time so that they have time to socialize because they don't get out among strangers often enough.

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I finished the other speaker stand, let it sit for half an hour so the glue could dry, and then routered all of the edges. I took it upstairs to show Greg, as he'd only seen the drawings, and then I realized that I had put the lower frame on rotated 90°, so that the lower runners go left-right, not front to back like the other two pieces. I'm going to ask Janet about it, and see if she can live with it (since it only holds up a speaker tower, it won't be as much of a problem for moving it). If not, then I get to cut the legs off and replace them, because at this point, they're not going to unglue nicely.

I also need to take all of my wood chisels to work and sharpen them. I sharpened the two we were using to trim veneer on the table tops, and, since I was using the sample prep lab at work for grinding them, they're sharpened to 1200 grit (read mirror smooth and sharp enough for shaving). I was using on of them to make minor adjustments on the oak frame, and now I realize just how a really sharp chisel is supposed to work. I may need to make or find a sharpening jig, so as to keep the grind angle uniform on all of them from grit size to grit size, and not add extra facets to the bevel.

In other news, teeka made it safely to the Charlotte airport. Getting from there to crzmslmaven's house apparently was much more dangerous, with the phrase "She tried to kill me" (describing Crzmslmaven's driving style) coming into the conversation more than once.