This is a Monday, all right...

Monday, August 20, 2007 Filed in: Blog stuff, Completely irrelevant
You may be looking for the latest installment of the "On Revolver Aesthetics" series. Well, it's not coming today. I can only plead for mercy on the basis that I had a VERY busy weekend, and frankly just didn't get around to finishing this week's article.

Saturday had me making a trek up to Firearms Academy of Seattle (FAS), where I was slated to give a talk about the technical aspects of personal high-performance flashlights. It was a good trip, though it's a bit of a drive up and back - very tiring for me (I hate sitting still for more than 15 minutes at a time!)

Of course that took all day, and on Sunday I was engaged in yet another joy of home ownership: finishing a remodel of my bathroom. (Yes, I just remodeled the kitchen, now it's the bath. This is getting old in a hurry.)

I should explain that these projects aren't "remodeling" in the sense that we're updating things. You see, our house is a circa-1930 bungalow, and what we're doing is ripping out the various "improvements" that were added during the '60s and '70s. We're bringing the rooms back to the general look and feel of the originals, but we're not doing an obsessive restoration.

For instance, in the kitchen we put in a sink and faucet that bear a resemblance to what might have been there originally, but definitely aren't original or even reproductions thereof. We're leaving as much original as what we can, though - in the bathroom we left the original tub and got a sink that matches its lines. The sink is reminiscent of the designs that were in use in 1930, but not an exact copy.

The net result is that I had no time for my "regular" job dealing with gunsmithing topics. After all, I have to get a day off occasionally, right?

-=[ Grant ]=-
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