After the catastrophe of the swirling satin finish last week, I decided to change my approach with the polyurethane. I ended up spraying -much- less per coat yesterday. About half-way through, I realized I was spraying a bit too little, and started laying down more. The last five doors I did are done. They look [...]

Yesterday afternoon, after taking eBeth to the doctor (she’s 14+lbs, 25″ long now!) I made a run to Menards, where I picked up some more polyurethane (w/ rebate) and a package of quad-ought (#0000) steel wool. I took care of prepping the cabinet doors, sprayed them one last time, and did a happy dance.
That’s when [...]

Who is the moron that thought this was a good idea?
getClass().getResourceAsStream(TEMPLATE_DIR + templates[0] +
WITH_HISTORY + INDEX_TEMPLATE_HTML);
And how do these geniuses get jobs? Much less hold them? Ugh.
Here’s the skinny. I was trying to use the HtmlWrapper task that ships with the Adobe Flex3 SDK. At first, I installed the .jar just like I would with [...]

I’ve been busy! Eleven cabinet doors now have finish on both sides. Tomorrow I’ll sand, then spray the second coat on the backs. Here’s a bunch of pictures that show the layout of the garage.
I used some spare plywood and 2×4’s to make a simple table, then covered it with shelf liner (so the doors [...]