[Ever have one of those weeks when you start two days behind the eight ball and lose ground each successive day? Monday I expected to launch the next several installments of the Lesbian Squirrels serial (the first preview is already on Patreon). Things didn’t go as planned. I was attacked by a PAWIRNEATT (Project About Which I’d Rather Not Elaborate At This Time). I was delayed for want of better tools and not up to squirreling. This led to a couple days fretting over AATWWTDMT (Acquiring Another Tool With Which To Do Manly Things). (Posts here and here.) I’d just about made up my mind to AATWWTDMT which would “solve” my PAWIRNEATT and get those damn squirrels back on the front burner when there was an event. The event involved pain and a dentist making a couple payments on his well earned Maserati. These things happen. All this is my attempt to excuse myself for forgetting about Lawdog.]
Lawdog has a way with stories. About a year ago he turned to the dark side and shifted his focus from blogging to composing a book. (He was busily authoring a book while I’m blogging about mice in my bandsaw. I wanna’ be like him when I grow up!) While I wasn’t looking he got the book done. I just found out. I’ve already bought my copy, buy yours now.
No party I missed is complete without cooler people than me, so of course Monster Hunter (Larry Correia) was totally in the loop. He took time away from his busy schedule of flaying hippies in his dungeon to book bomb Lawdog. Also participating was Old NFO. I’ve got Old NFO’s book, The Grey Man, stashed on my Kindle for winter. (When I stare stoically at the horizon and say “Winter is Coming” it’s all about the a stack of firewood and how many books I’ve stashed. You thought it was something about Game Of Thrones? Silly you!)
Get out there and buy Lawdog’s book. You’ll be glad you did.
Update: Vox Popoli likes Lawdog’s book. Go there and read the excerpt he added, all the cool kids are doing it.
Ya know, if you go with the REALLY inexpensive option I first suggested, you might be able to afford enough beer to make you forget that dentist’s Maserati.
Of course, if you are reasonably confident that you will have further use for a thickness planer in the future, or if you need some extra weight in your shop to keep it from being blown away in the next windstorm, or if there’s an empty space in that shop which you need to fill to cut down on the area you have to sweep after working therein, then by all means flush that spare money down the drain!
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