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About A Week Ago
Sep. 20th, 2017 08:44 pmAnd so, about a week ago, I ordered a tool for the shop called a compact circular saw. It's an electric saw for making straight cuts in wood and I'll use it in place of the commercial-duty model that I bought about 35-40 years ago when I was working part-time framing houses.
That one is a great saw, still in almost-new condition, with a metal case, edge guide, etc. But it's just too big and heavy for me to easily use anymore and it's simply much more than what I need in my basement workshop these days. I used to joke that, when I started it, it would brown-out half the city, that's how powerful it is.
But anyway, I started looking at these newer compact saws, which can still be used commercially in certain applications, and I thought, I don't need that, not really. Well, I could probably use it occasionally. But gee it's really kinda cool-looking, and I might use it sometimes, it's so nice and light and, actually, I think I've gotta have it because life is just too short anyway and I just don't think that I can live without it.
So, you see, there was a fairly lengthy but totally rational thought process involved in this decision. And, with that said, I think you can see why I might have some trouble explaining, I hesitate to say... justifying, ouch, that hurt, this very necessary, perhaps even crucial, purchase to my daughter.
But you won't tell her, will you. I know. That's why I love this weird sort of, I'm-right-here-but-you-can't-see-me, anonymity of the internet...
LPK
Dreamwidth
9.20.2017
That one is a great saw, still in almost-new condition, with a metal case, edge guide, etc. But it's just too big and heavy for me to easily use anymore and it's simply much more than what I need in my basement workshop these days. I used to joke that, when I started it, it would brown-out half the city, that's how powerful it is.
But anyway, I started looking at these newer compact saws, which can still be used commercially in certain applications, and I thought, I don't need that, not really. Well, I could probably use it occasionally. But gee it's really kinda cool-looking, and I might use it sometimes, it's so nice and light and, actually, I think I've gotta have it because life is just too short anyway and I just don't think that I can live without it.
So, you see, there was a fairly lengthy but totally rational thought process involved in this decision. And, with that said, I think you can see why I might have some trouble explaining, I hesitate to say... justifying, ouch, that hurt, this very necessary, perhaps even crucial, purchase to my daughter.
But you won't tell her, will you. I know. That's why I love this weird sort of, I'm-right-here-but-you-can't-see-me, anonymity of the internet...
LPK
Dreamwidth
9.20.2017
