Asa Forman
Mr. Grisbee
J-Term: Advanced 2D and 3D
Design
14 January 2018
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I saw a guy spill his Scrabble set on the road.
I asked him “what’s the word on the street?”
I would like to preface this blog post by saying that this J-Term
will most likely go down in the history books of The Post Oak High School as
one of, if not the, shortest J-Terms to ever transpire. Initially, after
Hurricane Harvey and several months of deliberation, the high school faculty
decided that it would be necessary to have an Odyssey trip. They decided that
the trip would be most conveniently rescheduled to the last week of J-term for
undisclosed reasons, and that J-Term would be cut short by three days to
accommodate the Odyssey. This was fine by all J-Terms, however, and the
adaption to less time went relatively smoothly ( I think this was due to
students’ eagerness to spend three days on Galveston Island). The J-Term was
then cut short another two days as Houston froze over, preventing Houston
residents from travelling anywhere by road for two days. At this point you, the
reader, are probably asking yourself how a student participating in the
Advanced 2D and 3D Design J-Term could produce two projects in seven days. The
answer, hard work and commitment. Speaking of project progress, let me update
you on my Scrabble Board.
Today I worked on completing the stands on which each of the four
players will place their seven tiles while playing the game. The stands are
made out of ⅛” plywood complete with a gray stain (the same one I put on the
actual board itself to keep the color scheme consistent). The stands are
comprised of two pieces of this wood, one that is 7” x 1.5” x ⅛”, and the other
7” x 1” x ⅛”. Each has a small 3.5” x .1” x ⅛” slit in it to allow the to
pieces to slide together and create a stand incredibly similar to that of what
one might find in a store bought scrabble game. I also purchased a lazy Susan
over the weekend and intend on attaching it, as outlined in my previous post,
to the backside of the backgammon board to allow players to conveniently spin
the board towards themselves on their turn.
I am elated to announce that my Scrabble board will be finished by
tomorrow, January 19th, 2018, at noon if all goes accordingly, and tomorrow at
3:25 PM if I encounter every potential setback between when I commence work on
my board and conclude work on my board. Unfortunately, I am unable to produce
any pictures of the progress I made today on the board, but stay tuned for
tomorrow’s post where there will be a number of photos of the final product.
P.S. I would like to extend
a very big thank you to Mr. Grisbee for making an exceptionally good looking
leather bag to house both the tiles and the tile stands when not in use.
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