It's Friday and I was hoping ...

... for something good on the radio. Instead I got a call from Lisa, saying that Todd needed me to come down and give my opinion on two possible bases for our granite table top. Well I hopped into the "new" 1988 4x4 Toyota truck we bought from OneTwoTree Cornelio last week, but only just registered today, and motored the three miles North and mile and a half East to Todd's, enjoying the feeling of "Hey this truck should be driving these gravel and dirt roads. That's what this truck was made for. Right on. Because when you drive your passenger car down the gravel roads you're thinking, Geez I'm just wrecking this thing with all the gravel and dust flying around. It just wasn't built to drive on these kinds of roads." So right there I already justified the purchase of the truck yet once.

I get to Todd's and he shows me the two options. I ask him if he's got a preference. He says he's not going to say, but I can tell that he does. We go to the first option. It's a slab about 6 to 8 inches thick and about 26 inches wide by 63 inches long - pinkish gray granite cut flat on one side and au natural on the top side. Todd's proposal for the base for our 9 foot long by 43 inch wide by 3 inch thick granite table is a granite pod-like base, with four stainless steel "legs" drilled into the base and angling (kind of radiating) up to the top, where they'll be drilled in as well. It'll look something like the awful drawing I'm including above (side view, 1D), except it'll look a lot more real. Well, as real as things can look around here. Virtureal. That's not "good real" that's mostly real.

Todd's real. Big and real. Great guy too. Like a rock. I'd link you to his website if he had one, but he's so great he doesn't need one. Seriously.

The ride in:          Temp 3'C   Wind 20 ks NW
The ride home:    Temp 12'C Wind 25 ks NW