Slow Days and Credit Cards

Slow days at work can be dangerous. It is not bad enough that it is slow, that, because I am Salary I don't get paid for being here, and that I'm not selling anything to add to my bonus, but slow days allow for online shopping.

All there is to do here today is blog, drink coffee, surf the web and take cigarette breaks from blogging, drinking coffee, and surfing the web. 

I, in case you are unaware, have been remodeling the house since my parents died. There have already been three 30 yard dumpsters and one 15 yard. I need at least one more 15 before everything is gone. Since I started there have been five rooms and one hallway repainted, moldings added, furniture replaced, new concrete front steps added, a motorcycle garage added, a kitchen floor replaced (which needs replacing again), new lights installed, interior stair steps replaced and a myriad of small things done. If you have not noticed, or haven't been listening, I am not an ambitious person, lazy comes into mind. But I have friends who are motivated and they show up, work or assist in doing things. 

Right now we just finished painting the game room upstairs, the floor needs sanding, staining and sealing. So, I have decided to build the wall shelving instead. The shelves will be holding approximately five hundred games, DVDs and VCR tapes, (yes, I said VCR tapes). The shelves will run down both walls from floor to the angled ceiling. I have decided to use 1"x 6"x 12" boards to make the shelving and supports, so I went on-line to Home Depot for some lumber prices. 

I found the prices for the wood, then I was thinking, (a dangerous thing to do) the shelves would be better built if I cut grooves in the supports for the shelves to fit in then screw/glue them together. Cutting grooves is easiest done with a table-saw. So I priced one, I found what I expected, if you want anything permanent and a brand name you are looking between $1500.00 and $2500.00. Buuuuut, there are work site table saws, with wheels and legs. these run between $350.00 and $500.00, so I clicked on that shopping cart button and  $498.00 later there is a table saw on the list, but wait. Whatever you look at on these types of sites there are links below titled "people who looked at these, also looked at these". There in the center of that section was a table scroll saw, so add another $299.00 to the bill, but wait, that will need extra blades also ($Ka-Ching$). 

I noticed something that did not make much sense at first, people who looked at scroll saws and table saws also looked at gun safes. You see the connection don't you. I know what it is. The connection is that the people who looked at saws also needed a gun safe. Really, it's pretty easy when you think about it. So, come the second week of February, I will be sitting at work and with any luck, Fed Ex will pull in and unload my table-saw, my table scroll saw, blades and 14 rifle, eight shelve, two door gun safe.

Now, if only I could afford some wood.