The Daily Grind
Dec. 14th, 2004 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tyggerjaiBloody Melbourne. Need workshop.
So today I started cutting out the parts for the new Alarming Kitty Device. I'd forgotten how much I love the tang of cutting metal. Partly good memories of Gertrude St, and the world's largest useful box, partly just ... mmmm, ozone. Or whatever it is.
Tempted to take someone up on their offer of a backyard & shed to work in, but ... a man's relationship with his tools can be quite intimate - not necessarily the sort of thing you want to share :) I think I'll hang on till May, or whenever our lease is up here, and get a new place with a decent shed. It occurs to me, after running into an old housemate yesterday, that I've always had good house karma, overall. The first place I lived in Melbourne was pretty crap, but that was boarding with a family in Burwood, so ... duh. From then, it's just been getting better and better - Richmond, the House of Fun, Gertrude St, now here. So on the one hand, it's a tough act to follow. On the other hand, if the trend continues, the next place will be fabulous.
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spark_au can rest assured - he may not have been here long, but the next place will 0wn. Though it may have to be Brunswick ....
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So today I started cutting out the parts for the new Alarming Kitty Device. I'd forgotten how much I love the tang of cutting metal. Partly good memories of Gertrude St, and the world's largest useful box, partly just ... mmmm, ozone. Or whatever it is.
Tempted to take someone up on their offer of a backyard & shed to work in, but ... a man's relationship with his tools can be quite intimate - not necessarily the sort of thing you want to share :) I think I'll hang on till May, or whenever our lease is up here, and get a new place with a decent shed. It occurs to me, after running into an old housemate yesterday, that I've always had good house karma, overall. The first place I lived in Melbourne was pretty crap, but that was boarding with a family in Burwood, so ... duh. From then, it's just been getting better and better - Richmond, the House of Fun, Gertrude St, now here. So on the one hand, it's a tough act to follow. On the other hand, if the trend continues, the next place will be fabulous.
So
spark_au can rest assured - he may not have been here long, but the next place will 0wn. Though it may have to be Brunswick ....sol.
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Date: 2004-12-13 07:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-13 09:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-13 09:50 pm (UTC)The current Alarming Kitty Device is barely worthy of the name - it's a standalone alarm clock, and a standalone Hello Kitty Device, with the most superficial (and reversible) of connections. The new Alarming Kitty Device will be a true fusion of Hello Kitty Device and Alarming Rabbit, melded for all time.
Just you wait!
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Date: 2004-12-13 09:56 pm (UTC)So long as it doesn't launch into a muzak rendition of Bright Eyes every time it does its nefarious thing (whatever that is, and I dread to think)...
Oh, I'm tingling and twitching with antici...pation, believe you me. Just as I twitched and spasmed uncontrollably every time that bloody Alarming Kitty Doorbell went off.