You may remember my last visit to the USA which I chronicled in the series Little Moments in America

This trip is a much longer one, so these updates will be a little further apart than the last series, but I’ll try to make the updates as regular as possible.

Either way, welcome to week one. One picture here, and more after the jump.

An emotional support animal? Like a guinea pig?

The 32 ounce Dr Pepper was amazingly fresh. However, the 32 ounce was the medium. Astounding.

Check the times and dates on those receipts. I’m really here.

It was almost one year ago that my last laptop died. And if this becoming a January tradition, I’m going to massively annoyed.

An update on my plans for this year: I’m going to take an extended vacation to California at the end of the month. Yep.

So I’ll be spending the rest of the month preparing for that, and getting everything ready. I’ll be staying with Kimberlee just a few miles from the beach. We’ll ride bikes around town, we’ll drink micro-brewed beer, I’ll eat In and Out burgers again.

Let’s hope to fuck that this year turns out better than the last.

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Good Mood Gig from SAM-e

I’ll post them when I get a chance. Thanks for hanging around.

All of these things suck. If anyone wants to help me out head to the Donations page, located at the link below. Or the link above that says “Donations”.

http://www.themadcarpenter.com/donations/

I’ve got it all worked out though, and it’s probably possible to get back online, with a new machine, in about a month, if I save as much as I can.

With a little help I could probably have it in two weeks. I’m not one to ask people for money, but this is a serious interruption to the mad carpenter service.

Any and all donations will be greatly received.

Doing a project with Frank, drawing up plans for other things.

What I’m mainly here to tell you is that I’m not doing a second 365 project this year. Though I’m thinking about not shaving for a year. We’ll see.

Also, I’m sick, so updates may or may not be shortly forthcoming. I’ll update when I can. Thanks again to everyone who followed my through to this decade.

I’m not saying that I’m doing another 365 project, but I’d like to keep myself covered. Top ten of last year shall be online in a few days.

Threw my leg out when we went bowling on Wednesday. Been hobbing around on the cane all day.

Forgot to mention that we saw 500 Days Of Summer on Wednesday too. I’d highly recommend it to everyone. It’s been branded as a romantic comedy for men which I think it is. And if it is then it’s the first romantic-comedy aimed at men. Shaun of the Dead doesn’t count because it was more of a zombie comedy than it was anything else.

A certain Kimberlee that shall remain nameless thinks that Wedding Crashers was the first ever romantic comedy aimed at men but I disagree. Any thoughts out there in internet land on the situation? Comments welcome below.

I’m making the prospective project #2, the desk for my room. It’s going swimmingly and I love being back making something again.

If you need a fix in my absence, then go to youtube and search for the wood whisperer. That’s what I’m doing with my time. He’s great.

So today is bit devoid of information, so I’ll give you something else:

Autocad design after the Jump.
It’s a coffin.

This is the six sided coffin I knocked up in about six hours, and with some minor adjustments and some streamlining the finished plan will be up in the commissions section of this here website. Feel free to drop me an email as per the commissions page if you’d like one.

Oh, and the program I used to design the coffin is called Google Sketchup. It’s free, really easy to use, and incredibly versatile. Give it a bash if you want to, and if you do want to, you could design your own item, then send it to me to make for you.