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Hey kids, what time is it?

mood: sleepy sleepy
music: Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It Is
Way too bloody late that's what it is.

Can someone tell me why I get the urge to fix random things around the house sometime around 11pm on many a random night? I finally fixed a piece of molding in the upstairs hall bathroom and I installed the worklight for my computer desk (i.e. the desk where I can assemble and disassemble computers and the like).

Before that I had dinner with my folks and R&A at R&A's house. Shishkabobs and crab salad, mmmmmm (although I suspect it was krab (tm) salad, it was still quite tasty... a comment about the abilities of the chef more so than the quality of the processed crab-like product).

I spent most of the day painting furniture. I discovered that this is not as easy as painting rooms and it's the sort of activity that I probably shouldn't pursue in non-empty rooms (oops). I primed my old wooden army issue filing cabinet, my CD-sized bookcase, and an old copier stand. I'm still debating if I want to paint of stain one of the bookcases in the office and I'm considering what colors to actually paint the already primed items.

Yeeesh, if my life was any less thrilling, I'd have to live in a monastery.

Posted on Apr. 25th, 2004 at 11:56 pm | | Leave a comment | 9 comments |

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nobodysecho

Yeeesh, if my life was any less thrilling, I'd have to live in a monastery.

Or under my bed! There is an alarm clock, and yummy soft blankets, and pillows, and a lamp, and it's quiet and fun!!!

/randomness....
Posted on Apr. 26th, 2004 03:27 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

dragonvpm

Heh, so would living under your bed make my life less or more thrilling? :-p
Posted on Apr. 27th, 2004 12:05 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

nobodysecho

*gasp*

This SHOULD be common knowledge!!!

MOREEEE thrilling of course!
Posted on Apr. 27th, 2004 12:53 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

snowninja7

Yeah, painting book cases sucks up way more time than you'd think- the surface area is roughly 3x what my untrained eye thought it should be.

And maybe we should compare my day of editing a thesis and working on the computer... huge fun here. I almost called you, but my phone was being dumb.
Posted on Apr. 26th, 2004 06:11 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

dragonvpm

Not only that, but since I built these to hold CDs (you've actually seen it, I used to have all my CDs in it back in SH), it's a bit of a pain to properly paint the interior parts of the shelves/sides/back. I was also running into problems figuring out where exactly to do all this painting. I'm not convinced that the upstairs hallway is the best place to tackle 3 simultaneous painting projects (for that matter 3 simultaneous painting projects is probably a bit much given my goldfish-like attention-span ;)

Boo for dumb phones.
Posted on Apr. 27th, 2004 12:08 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

thenew

Hahaha! Obviously I've been in the office too long: I thought you were faxing stuff, not fixing it. ;)

Posted on Apr. 26th, 2004 01:32 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

dragonvpm

Heh, I suspect SBC might have some issues if I attempted to fax ye olde monolith/filing cabinet.
Posted on Apr. 27th, 2004 12:09 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

inferna

...and it's sort of off-topic, but I'm laying out my article for the Independent and I've used one of your quotes. I can't decide how to cite you--do you prefer to be known as lj user dragonvpm, or do you have a first and/or last name and/or age I can use?

Also, when we're printed in a few weeks, can I mail you a copy?
Posted on Apr. 26th, 2004 08:10 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

dragonvpm

Sounds awesome. I would definitely like to get a copy once it's printed. If you email me @livejournal, I can get you the appropriate name and contact info.
Posted on Apr. 27th, 2004 12:16 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply