May 2012 be the best year so far for all my readers.
About the only thing that has happened between the holidays, is I received the cutters that fit for the lathe. To check them out I faced off about 1/3 of a 1/4×20 nut. I have been showing people it as a $500 nut ($0.04 for the nut, plus $500 for the tools to do it). Of course the value will drop a lot as soon as I turn something else (grin).
The new credit card is handy for keeping some money in the bank. I do not have to pay it out until I get the next check from Social Security. Speaking of which, they finally gave me a raise, all of $27 a month, after none for the past three years while the cost of living continued to increase insanely.
It does not look like I am going to hit my 250 word minimum for this post.