Tonight in the garage, I discovered Godzilla on one of the storage shelves... I'm not a big fan of lizards, much less ones that are a foot long and crap all over my garage, so he had to go. Unfortunately for Godzilla, he cornered himself in a box and he's not faster than a shop vac. :-)

Mostly finished workbench:



Today was some kind of sinus / allergy hell day so I didn't get the bin made for the scrap wood, and I may look for a garbage bin to fit the last place on the bottom right without a door. The handles were an item that Lowe's recently changed suppliers on, so I have 1 left that will go on the wood scrap bin, and I don't feel like having to figure out how to order more. They were actually cheaper than using knobs - a plain black knob was $3.97 whereas the handles were 2 bucks and change.

New workbench project ***here*** inspired by **this** project on the New Yankee Workshop show.

Wow. I went to the skatepark tonight for the first time in about a month and found out that one of the riders I knew there died in a motorcycle accident. I can't find the news story - most likely it was a one-vehicle accident from what the internet theorists say. I guess if the newspapers can't villify a motorcycle rider because they're speeding they won't even mention them.

I barely met the kid, but he was a very talented BMX rider that everyone liked and he could ride any bicycle like it was nothing. Funny thing, he never had his own bike - seemed like he just enjoyed stopping in to see what was going on, ended up bumming someone's bike for a few minutes and threw down amazing tricks. He borrowed the bike I broke my ankle on from me one night and just tore the park up like it was nothing. He and I went in the skatepark with my sidehack - terrifying, but ridiculous fun at the same time.

'Racer' John, we'll miss ya at the skatepark.