Here at last is my woodworking project, a cutting board. It's almost finished. It needs a little more sanding and then I have to stain it but I'll do that next class night. This week's class was spent planing, sanding, sawing, and routing and I'm beginning to feel more comfortable on all the corresponding machines. Still, I am also beginning to feel that my future is not one of woodworking. What a lot of work it took me to get to this simple little cutting board! I'm not sure I want to invest that much time in something when I could be knitting or crocheting instead. Once I get this cutting board completely finished, I'll work on building blocks for the remainder of the classes. I have a study wooden tool box that I made in my very first woodworking class and it will be perfect for storing wooden blocks, should I ever have some young guests who would like to play with them.
Yesterday morning at the homeless shelter was a busy one. A lot of guys showed up, mostly to work on resumes or check email. One guy wanted to work on his taxes but he was easily frustrated just entering his W2. I helped him get going and then he spent the rest of the two-hour session that I'm there completing his taxes. He was just in the process of e-filing it at noon when I leave so I stayed a few minutes to let him send it off. And as he hit the key to complete the e-filing process, the computer shut down, complaining that it had an Internet error! All his hard work vanished. I assured him that it would still be out there, that if he just came back and signed on again, he could finish it off and be done with it. I don't think he believed me. He sure was frustrated - and even if I could have stayed longer, he was in no shape to continue work on it right then.
B. and I are having tax issues of our own. We spent a good part of the weekend working on them only to find that we still owe MORE money, after all the money we've already paid this year. Something about the figures just doesn't feel right so we plan to go over everything again today and see if possibly we didn't enter something we should have. We're hoping for some slight error that when corrected will either net us a refund - or a greatly reduced tax owed.
I went back to the library craft circle last Sunday to give it another try. This week was a lot more interesting than the last time. There were only four of us there, one woman that I had met last time. Everyone was working on interesting projects and had lots of ideas, suggestions and patterns for future projects. And, in addition to meeting some interesting, like-minded people, I made some more progress on the baby blanket I'm knitting. Definitely a good session.
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