studio!
My cajoling worked! I’ve been asking my landlord Bill about renting the garage since we moved into our house 2 years ago, and he finally assented. He only used the garage to house his wife’s car, and she apparently hasn’t driven it in a couple of years. With my upstairs neighbors’ car going off to Car Heaven last month, there was a vacant space and Bill moved out the station wagon. That left room for me to sweep in and pick up the space for LESS than I was paying for a Uhaul storage cube. Fuckin’ psyched, I am.
My dad recently gave me just about his entire wood shop (after he remarried and moved into Judy’s house), so I’m now setting it up. Mostly woodworking stuff, but a lot of errata that can be applied to metalworking or whatever: grinders, vises, a drill press, what have ya. And it’s IN MY HOUSE. I am a happy man.
Very bummed that I didn’t take a “before” pic, but I’ll post some photos soon. The big stuff (cabinet maker’s bench, mechanic’s chest, the scroll saw) is already in place, thanks to the lovely and gracious Jessica and her pickup (give her some clickthrough love, and hire her if you need cartoons). Much more to come, and with luck, this will prod me to get some of these ideas out of virtual land and into meatspace. Already dreaming of making a Hektor-like painting robot to turn some of these crazy designs into canvases…