This table rocks

Okay, first a disclaimer: I don't have any sort of relationship with WORX whatsoever.  I'm simply a satisfied customer, no more, no less.  I paid full price for this thing.

Now, on to the product...

A few months ago, I purchased a WORX Pegasus folding workbench.  Amazon product page:

https://www.amazon.com/Pegasus-Multi-Function-Sawhorse-Clamps-Holding/dp/B01HREBZ3M/

This week, I've been using it to do some woodworking.  I used the clamps to hold pieces of wood in place while I drilled and sawed.  More importantly, I put some pressure on the edge of the table while using the jigsaw.  You never know, when sawing something that's hanging off the edge, if your table will start to tip over.  This table did not.  It remained solidly in place the whole time, even while I was pushing on the edge of it to hold the wood still.  That was what spurred me to write this post: its stability in the face of what could have been a challenging moment vector.

The table is lightweight for something its size and ruggedness.  It folds up nicely for carrying.  The only real negative thing about it is there's no carry handle.  I carry it by the waffle pattern of the polymer reinforcements instead.  That's a minor thing, though.  I can still truck it up and down stairs one-handed.  Product is all-around awesome.

If you need something like this, then I recommend this one.

Progress report

Still working on the first draft of book 4 of Wheel of Fire.  I reached page ten of my twelve-page outline, but then I had to stop.  The rest of the outline wasn't satisfactory.  I'm abandoning it.

I'm now re-outlining the last part of the book.  So the writing is on pause, but as soon as I've got the conclusion outlined, I'll start writing again.  This book is taking a meandering path to KDP, but it'll get there.

That's the good thing about being an indie author.  I can make changes whenever I need to, and there's no external deadline to cause me stress.  I sometimes wonder how many traditionally published authors turned in manuscripts that they knew were sub-par but couldn't be improved because they simply ran out of time.

Fiddled with Imagus

I may have stumbled upon the secret of making the Imagus add-on work much better.  Only time and some days of internet browsing will tell for sure.

If I'm right, though, then Imagus will now be as awesome as Thumbnail Zoom was.  Which was pretty awesome before Mozilla broke the add-on store.

In other news, there's been a ton of rain and lightning here over the past few hours.  I expect to hear news reports tomorrow about flash flooding and fallen trees and whatnot.

Update weirdness

My computer tried to install some updates from Dell recently.  Those updates failed.

Then it tried to install updates from Microsoft.  Those also failed.

I'm not sure what's going on or if I need to worry about it.  The computer works fine.  Updates are often screwy, so it's not beyond reason that they fail from time to time.  The timing of these two failures, though, and from two different sources, makes me start to wonder.

The good news is that I'm in the habit of backing up my work.  When I'm done writing for the day, I email a copy of the file to myself.

I actually haven't had many problems due to Windows 10.  I don't hate it the way a lot of people do.  I hope it stays that way.

Annoyances

There's some sort of buzzing insect trapped in the wall.  I don't know what it is or how it got there, but the buzzing is getting on my nerves.  There's nothing I can do about it without tearing a hole in the wall.  Poison would probably work, but that's not an option.  The last time I handled any sort of poison, I ended up with a food allergy soon after.  I don't mess with poisons anymore.

This isn't the first time it's happened.  There have been buzzing insects trapped in the wall before.  Eventually, they leave or die, and that's what will happen this time, too.  In the interim, though, I have to live with that nagging noise.

I know... first-world problems.

In other news, I've got over 58,000 words done in the current work-in-progress.  I'm on page ten of my twelve-page outline.  The end is near.  Well, the end of the first draft, anyway.

Fireworks already?

My neighbors have already started shooting off fireworks.  The Fourth is still two weeks away.  lol

Murica!  :D

In all seriousness, though, good for them.  I remember when fireworks were illegal here.  Now that the law has changed, let the folks have their fun.

I've been getting the urge

...to dig the sax out and start playing again.

It's been a long time, and my embouchure is shot.  The instrument would sound horrible until my mouth re-learned how to play.  It might even sound horrible after that, because it's an old horn with lots of mileage and I have no idea if the pads are still good or not.

But I still get the urge to try.  I was listening to some Glenn Miller tunes today, and I wanted to play along.

If money was no object, I'd probably buy a new horn.  A tenor sax this time, not an alto.  And after I got my playing chops back, I'd look into finding a group of some kind and doing public performances.  Rock, swing, whatever.  It's the fun of performing that matters, not the musical genre.

But money is an object, and so is time, so I can't indulge my flights of fancy just yet.  Maybe some day.