Quarterflash Designs

Beginning Open Office 3:
From Novice to Professional

Apress / http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430215905
ISBN:978-1-4302-1-590-5

A Review

I had a chance to review this recently published book and my overall impression is very positive. The author has spent time getting to know the program and how it works.
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A very nice day today for a change. Well, really it’s not been all that bad here, we didn’t get the deep cold that a lot of the rest of the country did. Still, today was warm enough to get outside without a coat or even, for that matter, a sweater. Since it was that warm I headed out to work on my router table.

I’ve had the base done for a while now. It was made by trimming 2×4s to square up the edges, notching the legs to put supports acrss and then screwing the two sides together with some other supports. It’s pretty sturdy. I had started a top before, but used plywood and 1/4″ hardboard. That combination ended up warping on me. In one of the other magazines there was a plan for a much fancier router table and his top was made of two glued up 3/4″ MDF pieces. I’m sticking with my original plan, but using the MDF as the base for the top.

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Well, now that Sherri mentioned me in Charles’ newsletter, I suppose I need to keep things updated over here as well :)

A bit of background – I had to give up flying after I had the two discs in my neck fused as I no longer had the range and motion I needed to be safe flying. I was about one flight away from soloing and it was a dream I had had for years.  Well, I needed something else to fill my time and I’d always had an interest in woodworking, but not much interest in doing big projects.

I’ve always been fascinated by puzzles. I used to be able to solve a Rubic’s Cube, but I haven’t done that for years. I decided to start working on puzzles and somewhere in the search for information I ran across this Charles Neil guy and he made the mistake of being helpful so I decided to stick around for a while. (more…)