The todo list for the bar gets shorter every day - we're quickly running out of "construction" tasks leaving only "finishing" and "wiring" tasks to work through.  Sadly, my photo-taking has fallen behind a bit so I won't have photographic evidence to back up much of this update, but I have a pretty sexy picture to show off anyway, so hopefully you'll forgive me.

The back bar display shelves have been glued up, stained and poly'd.  The floor-to-ceiling shelves on the left wall have been stained, poly'd and set in place.  The above-fridge cabinet has been wood-puttied, stained, poly'd and temporarily set in place.  The doors for it have been built, trimmed, stained, and poly'd (I expect to attach them this evening).  The front bar wood trim has been stained, poly'd and attached, the front bar shelves have been attached.  All in all, the view of the front bar from the bartender's side is looking quite nice.  Cup's light fixture has been stained, poly'd, trimmed, attached to the ceiling and plugged in.  The gel frames for the above-bar lighting have been built, stained and had the first coat of poly put on them.  The wires have been run for the Tiki Bar PC and it is nicely up and running...on an interesting note - it would be fairly accurate to say that the cables for the Tiki Bar computer have been run "through the bath tub".  Keep that in mind if you happen to shower in the Tiki Bathroom (no splashing! You'll short out the USB! Not really...)

Remaining on the todo list are several lighting projects (under-bar shelves, display shelves, etc), running cable for and mounting the Drink-o-tron stats display screen, putting in speakers for the Tiki Audio system, and lots of trim work.  Working with all of these small projects it is easy to lose sight of the grand vision, so Jeff and I took some time (ok, a fair amount of time) to grab a small assortment of the Tiki Bar's liquor collection to get a feel for how it is going to look when it is done.  See what you think...view #1 and view #2.