Session Report: Doug is in town!

Doug came up to Ottawa so we could attend the Ottawa Woodworking Show (Nov 27th, 2009). I can happily say we both saw a lot of cool stuff, including some stuff made by one of the instructor-assistants at Rosewood Studios where we took a good course in hand tools in September. We also managed to escape without purchasing any equipment beyond the budget, although it was a close-run thing at times. I did really like the look of the 68" long, 115/230V, 6" Jointer from Steel City ($800) and their 13" helical cutter planer ($770).

This led into a night of gaming at bitHeads with my friends there. This time it was Lorry. There was no Shane, no Chris W, no Ax, and no Slobo, Dan, Louis or Richard. For some reason, I think Slobodan might have showed up, but I'm vague on that (they say the memory goes when you get old). Lorry was pretty exhausted due to some crazy work on debit/credit stuff on Canada Post's new Point-of-Sale system.

It ended up that we played games with Lorry and hung out until about 2 am chatting. Again, the memory fails me as to the games, but I seem to recall Lorry particularly sucking. We showed Doug a new game he'd never played and he owned us, then we played something else and I was in good form.