Considering that I had already assembled the headboard, I knew lugging it to the chop-saw at school would be near impossible and definitely impractical. Hand-sawing was my only option. Fortunately, what appeared to be another irritating situation turned into a fun.
Tyler, whose had some experience with a hand saw, instructed me to hold the blade lightly, making sure to use the length of the blade as I saw. His advice was duly noted, for I discovered when I did the opposite, I was not making as much progress.
Getting to this point with the first leg...
definitely caused me to work up a sweat, and I realized the potential for getting in a really good arm workout with the second (or so I convinced myself). Being semi-nerdy, I decided to not only challenge myself physically, but find a cool way of calculating how fast I could take down the second leg. Any old stopwatch just wasn't going to cut it. My answer was Guster.
To those of you unfamiliar with "Guster", it is the name of an alternative rock band who became quite popular in the late '90s. I don't believe I actually started listening to them until quite a bit later, maybe college, but I quickly became addicted to their song entitled, "Demons". So, as I approached my second leg, I queued up a few Guster classics to play as I went to work.
My progress went as follows:
Great Escape, 3:06
Happier, 3:49
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| Yes! Over halfway there! |
Amsterdam, 3:39
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| Almost! |
Demons, 4:28
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| So close!!! |
After "Amsterdam" ended, I was convinced that I would be able to finish with only one more song. Alas, "Demons" proved to be 30 seconds too short, or my arm muscles proved to be too puny - depends on how you want to look at it. Nonetheless, in about 16 minutes, I had completed my mission, and the headboard was finally ready to be attached to our bedframe.
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