Slapped in the face by reality

The first two lessons I learned starting this project. 1. I have no idea what I am doing. 2. No matter how cool you want to make something, unless you are super rich, reality will grab you by the throat and tell you to make it a sandwich. Just like living with a wife, projects take compromise. All those cool ideas you have in your head can be made (or some version of it), just be prepared to alter it a few hundred times. I am happy to report that as of now things are still going well and will still be my dream vision, it has just been revised about 10 times. I'm sure it will be revised 10 more times before the project is done.

So here is the overall thought I had going into this. I wanted a big screen tv, and a bar. We have one long wall, and I thought it would be really cool to make that look like a hockey board (how hard could that be?) and put all my collectible stuff behind the glass. Then I could invite people over to get drunk and look at all my cool stuff. I also wanted a bubble hockey table. That was as far as I thought it out. Since then things have been added and subtracted so many times that I lost count.

I also learned that "do whatever you want" means that "you run it by me and I will have final veto power". I have learned that is both a good and bad thing sometimes. Overall, good though! I mean that, too. I'm not just saying that so she doesn't hit me or anything.