PROPER TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT

Today I wasted too much time putzing around with small sharp blades, microfibre pads, and alcohol. No, this is NOT an admission of a strange addiction coupled with a desperate cry for an intervention. Go away, and take your twelve-step programme and Bible with you. It's all about cleaning up half a dozen pipes which I've had for a while but never bothered finishing the restauration work on. They're all fine, thank you. And there is a q-tip with a little wood stain perched on a ledge in the kitchen for a second application.

Meanwhile, I'm thinking of lunch. Which will be what?

See, I'm not hungry right now, but if I don't eat eventually I will probably snap and growl at strangers later while having a quiet smoke across the hill. Which would be bad. It is always good to maintain a decent pretence at being a human being and halfway socially ept, just so that the men with giant butterfly nets aren't alerted. Let them deal with the genuine crazies instead. As they should.

Pensively the lizard licks its eyeball...


One of the briars is a small tanshell with a rather lovely grain that needs a serious bit of work. sadly, I do not have a buffing wheel here, so some things are more problematic in this task than they really should be. And I suspect that my apartment mate would have objections at my bringing such a device into our abode. It took years before all the little deposits of pink wood dust in the teevee room and the kitchen had been found and dealt with.
She is fastidious, and this displeased her.

Like many males, I am at ease with a minor amount of grunge.

Instinctively, the male of the species realizes that total neatness discourages small edible furry creatures upon which one might wish to snack, in lieu of an actual balanced meal.


"And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large ... "


Should the menu item 'sloth' be pluralized? Isn't it much like sheep and mice, inherently plural as well as singular? You know, like one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish?

I'm probably underthinking this. May need to up the bloodsugar.



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