I just got approved to volunteer with https://techies4rj.org/

I’m currently looking for an immigration related opportunity too.

You can always recommend a local food not bombs org.

And Melania.

https://www.vox.com/2016/11/5/13533816/melania-trump-illegal-immigrant

The “best” we could have hoped for was a quiet transition and a year of ineptitude for minimal disruption of normal folks’ lives.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll also be enjoying a bit of schadenfreude as the leopards begin hunting faces.

I hate to break it to you, but disruption this early in the politics cycle won’t be remembered in a year when the midterms cycle picks up. And certainly not in 3 years for the next presidential cycle. People have short memories.

That the left lane is the fast lane in traffic. Nope. It’s for the people who want to go fast, but are nuts to butts in the mountain curves, so it ends up as a constant stop and go wave. I’ll chug along in the 80% less busy right lane and sneak in when the “fast” drivers hit the brakes in the next curve so I can pass the actual slow cars.

I’m glad you got a kick out of it. My wife still says the line to me a few times a year.

Hah, he was just a passenger!

I had a dream 15+ years ago where I walked onto a school bus holding a 5ft long tube of fudge striped cookies over my shoulder and Peter Jennings looked up and said “Nice strip of cookies.” I was so confused, I woke up and laughed.

Are you worried about the cabinets or the drawers themselves?

For the drawers, I used a wide scrap to set the height (and level) of the top slide, then another for the 2nd and cut it down for the 3rd. The bottom one is well, on the bottom.

For the cabinets, the sides were luckily enough the width of the standard sheet of plywood. I built the toekick as a separate unit (out of 2x4s, and I should have used plywood because even my straightest 2x4s were … not). I set the cabinets on the toekick in place and got lucky with level, but the toekick rocked a solid ⅜in (9.5mm). so I flipped the cabinet to apply the same weight and offer an access to the toekick and screwed another chunk of 2x4 to the toekick on the floor. Then I screwed the cabinets to the wall (using a magnetic “stud finder” (stud buddy) because I’m lucky enough to have drywall screws to locate studs) using some shims to level against the wall (solid ¾in/19mm bow in the middle).

I started by attempting to screw the cabinets together, but this cheap birch split immediately even with pilot holes (you can see the blowout that settled the matter on the right side of the stretcher on the left cabinet).

I immediately ordered a massca pocket hole jig.

It worked great, but between the wood and the bit it came with, there was a lot of raggedy tear out even when taking multiple shallow plunges.

On the drawers, I started with glue and brads with the narrow stack, following the simple method I saw in several videos (hat tip to bourbon moth on youtube for convincing me I could do this), cutting off the entire dado on the back piece. The ¼in drawer bottoms were definitely too flimsy for that method on the wide drawers, so I notched the corners for the slides and used pocket holes so I could still remove the bottom if the crappy lauan fails.

I really gotta find a better lumber place for the next project.