New House... same tripping hazards...

New House... now with pictures!

There are great advantages to having a excellent photographer as roommate. Like good panoramic photos.


Left to right: Pantry, Dot's room (or a Harry Potter cupboard for those of you not privy to the joke), stairs up, Kitchen, dining room, door to the back yard and living room.

This is the same room photographed from the fireplace. New stuff left to right: door to the garage, front door and the downstairs 1/2 bath. You can't really see the 1/2 bath, just the frame of the door edge on by the front door. It's the biggest 1/2 bath I've ever seen...


This is the kitchen. A family of four could live in the fridge. Furthermore the dishwasher has top and bottom spray arms!

Bedroom 1. Window faces the garage and obliquely the street.



Bedroom 2. Window faces the backyard.Master bedroom and bath. How sad is it my first thought was "Panoramas are slimming!" Random skinny person is J's friend who I wish was staying. He's a hoopty frood who knows where his towel is.

The back yard. All 20 feet deep of it.

I have no idea why J didn't shoot the front. We have lovely flowering tree out front. I'll try and get photo soon.

Migraines... fun for the whole family.

This morning round 5am ye migraine woke me up. I took a massive dose of ibu and went back to sleep. Slept through my alarm clock, but not the cold dog nose 15 minutes later.

Woke feeling fine, but after an hour at work it came back and brought friends. I was toughing it out, but apparently looked so bad my boss sent me home.

Somehow in the last 48 hours I have lost my sunglasses, and even with the heavily overcast sky I thought the sun was going to kill me.

Now I'm safe in the basement with all the lights turned off and blackout mask on ready for a nap...

...and the landlords are walking on the roof, apparently with a herd of rhinos.

Crash of rhinos I think is the correct term. Boy is it an appropriate term. Ye gods.

New house... roommate blues...

So we got the cool awesome place we had hoped for. It is closer to town, with better amenities and less rent.

The bad news... we are losing a roommate. Although he agrees the new place is superior in every way he has decided to go his own way, so our total rent bill actually ends up going up per person instead of down.

What makes this worse is the boy can cook. He just made an awesome taco salad. It is amazingly good, I can't even begin to describe.

To be fair the other roommate can cook too, but it seems like he mostly cooks cooks either italian or burgers.

Actually now thatI think about the soon-to-be-ex roommate cooks vegetarian a lot of the time... maybe it's good that he's leaving.

I need my bacon.

*edit* Pictures of the new house soon.

Dog pictures...

Cleaning out the camera and I ran across these two which I haven't shared before.

This why it is dangerous going down the stairs in the dark round these parts.



Cinnamon says, safety third!

A little bit of housekeeping around here...

So I decided to enable labels on the blog to make easier to find metal-smithing and kenpo posts... and discovered I had been a bad bad geek. I had forgotten to put a comma between labels so instead of two labels like "School" and "kenpo" I had one label "School Kenpo"

So... yeah. Fixed it, but I had to go edit the labels on about a hundred posts.

Now if you just want to look at pretty metal-smithing picture all you have to do is click on the link on the right. Just here for the Dog? Same thing.

My first monolith.

My roommate's senior thesis show is this weekend. He built a touch-screen driven interface for the art building and asked me to build an installation to hold a computer and support the touch screen.

For less then $200.

And it needed to look tech/slick.

I think I did okay...

From Furniture pics

From Furniture pics

Rockabilly wonder...

I may have just been introduced to a new love.

Imelda May. Irish born Rockabilly crooner extraordinaire.

Now... to find a local copy of her almbum...

Quick post update...

Oh how the time has flown. 5 months since my last post.

The less said about the last 5 months the better. I survived it.

Onto the updates.

Our lease is up (has it been a year already?) and busy looking for new digs.

So that is (not) fun.

Got some summer projects lined up, which has me excited.

I was regifted a small enamel kiln, which after I finish refurbishing I will doing more plique-a-jour pieces.

Also I have been inspired by the cool little blog called Knock-off Wood. So after I get moved in I am going build this.

From Furniture pics

Lastly, a chance encounter with a lovely lady has put me on the trail of new tattoo artist. I'm terrifically impressed with his portfolio, now I just need to finalize my design (and finish my green belt.)