I didn’t really expect the discussion for my last post to revolve entirely around a casual, offhand comment about my doing some work on a dry erase board, but with my lazy and irregular recent schedule of site updates I am happy that there is discussion at all. Still, as a creature of impulse I obviously jumped into the mindset of how totally awesome dry erase boards are and made an afternoon run over to Lowes. For some strange reason a nice, big board is universally expensive (My dad found perhaps the most overpriced one of them all). I don’t really get it…

Twenty minutes at a hardware store and I left with:

3 foot x 5 foot sheet of acrylic plastic – $35
4 sets of velcro wall fastners – $5

In addition to the $40 in raw materials it also took me about five minutes to put this together on my own. And while it’s obviously not the most stylish, high-tech dry erase board in the world… for $1500 less than my dad’s board I think I got a pretty good deal. I will probably eventually cover up the corners (so you can’t see the velcro fastners) with little pictures or something, but in the mean time I am pretty pumped to enjoy fifteen square feet of see-through dry-erase goodness.