Gee...

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My male friends all agreed that my $186 coffee table was an item of superb
design and construction.

....makes me feel not so bad about my ~$30 picture frame...mind you, it
was made of exactly 4 pieces of wood (cedar 2X4's...DON'T ASK...), but
it took me about...oh, I dunno, 6-8 pieces...just to get 4 pieces of 1
X 3/4 by however long they needed to be. I also had to hand-cut
mortises, and I just kept blowing 'em out ("Great...there's ANOTHER
one for the firewood heap."). Ah, memories...

Jim