Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Sarah's bed
Well, only abut 5 years after I started building a bed for my beautiful daughter Sarah, I've finally completed it.
One of the inducements we used to get our 8 year old to agree to go to sleep away camp for 7 weeks this summer was that we'd move her room from what was her nursery to the guest bedroom which was a good bit bigger. That had to include me finishing her bed, which I'd been working on for what seemed like forever. I came in just under the wire, as Sarah comes back from camp on Sunday 8/15. I put the final finishing touches on about 1 hour ago, the caps on the bed posts.
The bed is made from hard maple, following plans from "Plans Now". They were substantially modified, including dimensions of the headboard and foot board to accommodate the full size mattress set we bought her, as well as to substitute raised panels instead of vertical slats. Also, the plans call for cherry, but it's not a big stretch to go with maple instead. All the lumber was bought rough cut, and I milled it in my garage shop. Totally, I likely have about $350 invested in things like the lumber and hardware. Of course, I probably have spent about $10,000 in tools for the shop, including that SawStop** cabinet saw that cost ~$4000.
I've been woodworking for about 8 years, and this project took me the longest start to finish. I can't recall exactly when I started it, but it must have been in 2005. I actually built 2 other major pieces of furniture in between starting this and completing it, including our bathroom vanity (made from Walnut harvested from my inlaw's farm)
and an entertainment center in the basement (made from cherry).
Next project is likely to be bedroom nightstands for Sue and I.
**The nice thing about that saw is that it is designed to stop dead if it hits flesh, so it is impossible to amputate a finger or hand with it. It has a sensor in the arbor (the things that hold the saw blade) that detects conductance through the blade. If the conductance changes slightly due to the blade getting in contact with flesh (such as a finger), it fires a brake into the blade that stops it immediately. This is the only saw brand in the world that offers this safety technology. It's particularly important to me because I already partially amputated the tip of one of my fingers on my jointer (pronounced join-er; and seen diretly next to my cabinet saw...yes the long thing with the green base). Of course, that's a story for another post.
One of the inducements we used to get our 8 year old to agree to go to sleep away camp for 7 weeks this summer was that we'd move her room from what was her nursery to the guest bedroom which was a good bit bigger. That had to include me finishing her bed, which I'd been working on for what seemed like forever. I came in just under the wire, as Sarah comes back from camp on Sunday 8/15. I put the final finishing touches on about 1 hour ago, the caps on the bed posts.
The bed is made from hard maple, following plans from "Plans Now". They were substantially modified, including dimensions of the headboard and foot board to accommodate the full size mattress set we bought her, as well as to substitute raised panels instead of vertical slats. Also, the plans call for cherry, but it's not a big stretch to go with maple instead. All the lumber was bought rough cut, and I milled it in my garage shop. Totally, I likely have about $350 invested in things like the lumber and hardware. Of course, I probably have spent about $10,000 in tools for the shop, including that SawStop** cabinet saw that cost ~$4000.
I've been woodworking for about 8 years, and this project took me the longest start to finish. I can't recall exactly when I started it, but it must have been in 2005. I actually built 2 other major pieces of furniture in between starting this and completing it, including our bathroom vanity (made from Walnut harvested from my inlaw's farm)
and an entertainment center in the basement (made from cherry).
Next project is likely to be bedroom nightstands for Sue and I.
**The nice thing about that saw is that it is designed to stop dead if it hits flesh, so it is impossible to amputate a finger or hand with it. It has a sensor in the arbor (the things that hold the saw blade) that detects conductance through the blade. If the conductance changes slightly due to the blade getting in contact with flesh (such as a finger), it fires a brake into the blade that stops it immediately. This is the only saw brand in the world that offers this safety technology. It's particularly important to me because I already partially amputated the tip of one of my fingers on my jointer (pronounced join-er; and seen diretly next to my cabinet saw...yes the long thing with the green base). Of course, that's a story for another post.
Small cash in The Clarence Cup
Last night I played in one of 2 local home tournaments I've finagled invites to. This one is called the Clarence Cup, (held on Clarence Street). It's held monthly, and is a $25 rebuy tournament with a very good structure. You start with T1000 and 5/10 blinds, 15 minute levels. Last night there were 13 runners, including the 15 year old son of the host. We started a table of 7 and a table of 6, I was at the table of 6.
At the start, I had position on a player I might call my nemesis (let's call him "N"). He plays in the other tourney I play in (the Bonnament), and is known for breaching all types of poker etiquette (including one player to a hand, mis-calling the board) and is pretty boisterous. He's pretty harmless though, and not terribly good, playing on maybe level 1.5. To my left was the reigning 2 time champ of the Cup tourney, next to him was a good buddy of mine who can be a tough opponent, followed by the host and another fairly solid player.
I played fairly loose to start given it was 6 handed, so my opening range was any ace, and face and sooted connectors. On the second hand dealt, I raised to 100 UTG with 78 off, and "N" calls. Flop comes J69r, and N bets 100, I raise to 350, he re-raises and I shove. In this tourney, you need to chip up quick, or you're toast, so I'm happy to get in here and try to hit my oesd, or even a pair with cards to come. I can't give him credit for anything. He has a J, the turn is a blank and the river is a 5. Yahtzee!, I quickly double.
Yadda Yadda, I take a bunch of chips from him and others with some good hands and some crappy hands (Q6 with a Q6x flop ahem), and win the min with QQ when I flop quads heads up against a good player and he folds to my turn bet.
Nothing exciting happens until I loose T1K or so of my T3K stack in the 25/50 level with AJ v AQ. I'm still in good shape and immedately bust a shortie with AK. At the end of the rebuy period, there had been 22 or so buyins+rebuys, for a $550 prize pool. Of course my table had like 4 re-buys, and the other table had 9, creating a significant chip imbalance that would put me at a disadvantage when we consolidated to the 9 handed final table.
At that table, I had about T3500 to start with blinds around 50/100. The table consisted of the 2 time reigning champ, my good buddy, another friend who made day 3 of the ME this year, the host, "N" with a short stack, the host's 15 year old son with a monster stack, another friend who played the ME this year (Day 2?) and a few other decent players.
Yadda Yadda, I went card dead, but sorter stacks decided to race, and then we were down to 4, and I was short with about 15BB, but someone decided to play aggressive against the host's son, who was playing pretty well for a young kid against some very strong adults. Of course, the kid had AA against against the other guys KK, and did a great job of sucked him into getting all his chips in preflop. That put me in the money 3rd in chips behind him and one of the ME guys (a very good and tricky player). A few hands in, I raise with K10, kid calls, flop comes Q high (blanks for me), I shove knowing he'll call, which he does, and kid has a Q. No K come for me, and I'm out in 3rd for $110 ($85 profit). Weeee.
Of course, my buddy ended up leaving quickly after busting at the start of the final table,and he was my ride. The rest of the guys all live on Clarence Street (errr...Clarence Cup...get it?), so of course, "N" gave me a ride home. He really is a decent guy, I guess I need to just realize a home tourney is not going to be the same as the daily tourney at the Borgata, including the type of behavior tolerated.
At the start, I had position on a player I might call my nemesis (let's call him "N"). He plays in the other tourney I play in (the Bonnament), and is known for breaching all types of poker etiquette (including one player to a hand, mis-calling the board) and is pretty boisterous. He's pretty harmless though, and not terribly good, playing on maybe level 1.5. To my left was the reigning 2 time champ of the Cup tourney, next to him was a good buddy of mine who can be a tough opponent, followed by the host and another fairly solid player.
I played fairly loose to start given it was 6 handed, so my opening range was any ace, and face and sooted connectors. On the second hand dealt, I raised to 100 UTG with 78 off, and "N" calls. Flop comes J69r, and N bets 100, I raise to 350, he re-raises and I shove. In this tourney, you need to chip up quick, or you're toast, so I'm happy to get in here and try to hit my oesd, or even a pair with cards to come. I can't give him credit for anything. He has a J, the turn is a blank and the river is a 5. Yahtzee!, I quickly double.
Yadda Yadda, I take a bunch of chips from him and others with some good hands and some crappy hands (Q6 with a Q6x flop ahem), and win the min with QQ when I flop quads heads up against a good player and he folds to my turn bet.
Nothing exciting happens until I loose T1K or so of my T3K stack in the 25/50 level with AJ v AQ. I'm still in good shape and immedately bust a shortie with AK. At the end of the rebuy period, there had been 22 or so buyins+rebuys, for a $550 prize pool. Of course my table had like 4 re-buys, and the other table had 9, creating a significant chip imbalance that would put me at a disadvantage when we consolidated to the 9 handed final table.
At that table, I had about T3500 to start with blinds around 50/100. The table consisted of the 2 time reigning champ, my good buddy, another friend who made day 3 of the ME this year, the host, "N" with a short stack, the host's 15 year old son with a monster stack, another friend who played the ME this year (Day 2?) and a few other decent players.
Yadda Yadda, I went card dead, but sorter stacks decided to race, and then we were down to 4, and I was short with about 15BB, but someone decided to play aggressive against the host's son, who was playing pretty well for a young kid against some very strong adults. Of course, the kid had AA against against the other guys KK, and did a great job of sucked him into getting all his chips in preflop. That put me in the money 3rd in chips behind him and one of the ME guys (a very good and tricky player). A few hands in, I raise with K10, kid calls, flop comes Q high (blanks for me), I shove knowing he'll call, which he does, and kid has a Q. No K come for me, and I'm out in 3rd for $110 ($85 profit). Weeee.
Of course, my buddy ended up leaving quickly after busting at the start of the final table,and he was my ride. The rest of the guys all live on Clarence Street (errr...Clarence Cup...get it?), so of course, "N" gave me a ride home. He really is a decent guy, I guess I need to just realize a home tourney is not going to be the same as the daily tourney at the Borgata, including the type of behavior tolerated.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
live blog of the mookie
9:50pm EST I registered for the Mookie. Boy it'd be nice to have a nice cash, and maybe TID for a TOC seat...
10:10pm hmmm, willi wonka, pushmonkey APOSEC72 seem like familiar names. I'm at Table 10
10:15 AA I raise to 90 UTG+2, i lp caller and NewinNov in BB. Flop Q44cc, I bet 75 NewinNov raises to 320, I call, turn K he shoves, I tank/fold 2425
10:23 win a hand from the bb when I fire 2nd barrel on 2heart board when I turn middle pair/nk
11:01 first hand after break, 2 red aces. I raise to 350, willywonka calls. Flop 323cc. I bet pot (800), ww shoves, I snap call, he shows 66c, board runs out clubs and I'm done. Really? No way he has a random 2 or 3 there, so I really know I'm good. But, come on, that was cruel and unusual punishment.
On a perspective note, at least John's son's tumor was fully removed. He'll have the challenge of the scar, but hopefully, he'll fully recover...
10:10pm hmmm, willi wonka, pushmonkey APOSEC72 seem like familiar names. I'm at Table 10
10:15 AA I raise to 90 UTG+2, i lp caller and NewinNov in BB. Flop Q44cc, I bet 75 NewinNov raises to 320, I call, turn K he shoves, I tank/fold 2425
10:23 win a hand from the bb when I fire 2nd barrel on 2heart board when I turn middle pair/nk
11:01 first hand after break, 2 red aces. I raise to 350, willywonka calls. Flop 323cc. I bet pot (800), ww shoves, I snap call, he shows 66c, board runs out clubs and I'm done. Really? No way he has a random 2 or 3 there, so I really know I'm good. But, come on, that was cruel and unusual punishment.
On a perspective note, at least John's son's tumor was fully removed. He'll have the challenge of the scar, but hopefully, he'll fully recover...
Friday, April 16, 2010
BBT5
I'd really like to take part in the BBT5. I do most of my poker blogging on Twitter these days (jasonssimon), but maybe I'll start writing here for giggles
Friday, December 5, 2008
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