Welcome to episode 693 with my guest Aaron Williams. This is the Metal

Illness Happy Hour and this is a place for honesty about all the battles in our

heads. I'm not a therapist and this is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental

counseling. Think of this is a waiting room in the doctor's office and it's filled

with jackasses that's what this is and by jackasses I mean me

we have expanded our Zoom support group for people, their Patreon donors at the $20 a month and above a level. Currently we've been doing Sunday

afternoons at 4 p.m. California time. We've been doing that for about seven months or so and it's been going great

but it is a terrible time for people who don't live in the United States.

And so I have decided to add another group

and it will be Saturday mornings at 12 a.m. also known as midnight Friday night and hopefully that

will be able to accommodate people who are in the European time zones or wherever you want to log in from.

So if you go to the Patreon page for this podcast, which is Patreon.com slash mental pod. You can find the

info if you want to come be a part of that group. I also got a request from somebody to share more of my woodworking, the

tools that I use, pictures of the furniture that I've made, etc, etc. And so I've posted some of the furniture that I've made, etc, etc.

And so I've posted some of those on Patreon

and that's for anybody from the $1 a month level and above.

And I decided that I'm going to do a multiple video series showing the process of taking a raw piece of wood and the various machines you can use to

mill it and shape it and make different types of furniture and then show pictures of

furniture that I've made and stuff like that.

But I don't know, maybe it will inspire somebody to take up woodworking because you can

start with simple tools, you can start with something as simple as, know a circular saw a hammer not even a

circular saw a hand saw just a hammer a hammer and a bunch of ball bearings.

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