Thursday already??

[davemerrill]

Doesn't time fly. This week I got a haircut, and that's about all the non-work activity I expect to get squared away during the week. I needed one, though; my hair was Beatles level, it was approaching post-high school length and anybody who knew me back then knows how painful that can be.

I completely neglected to tell you about Sunday's ZERO FIGHTER strip, which is quickly approaching an extended dialog sequence where some of this stuff gets explained, and of courseFOUND SOUND is back with a record meant to comfort babies that features actual sounds of the human body, and ELEMENT OF SURPRISE updates as well.

I made up for my slack by getting two new Zero Fighter strips done over the course of the week and if I get one more done this weekend I will be ahead of the game. I'm kind of impatient to get the characters out of that field. Of course this Sunday is both the Oscars and the Woodstock nostalgia show which we will probably be going to. Woodstock is a little ways, but it's not too far for a junkin' expedition.

We got an official letter from the condo board and our yellow curtains officially have to officially go, condo rules state that only white curtains are allowed. So either we get different material and borrow a ladder to hang it, or call in the professionals, who probably have their own ladders. Or we just replace them with giant novelty flags bought from people in vans parked at gas stations, and wait for another letter.

If I knew what I was doing, I'd probably do it myself, but I prefer to push the envelope of knowledge on occasions when I'm NOT perched on a rickety borrowed ladder ten feet above the floor. I don't bounce like I used to. I got away with it once, and I could probably get away with it again if all I'm doing is swapping out fabric, but anything more complicated... not recommended.

Comments

[hooverdam.livejournal.com]

we just replace them with giant novelty flags bought from people in vans parked at gas stations

do this

[tochiro998.livejournal.com]

send them a letter that the curtains are made from a special fabric that reduces solar radiation in the visual spectrum in order to make your condo more energy efficient and the special material can't be made in white. I bet you could get a least a year more before they sent a letter saying take them down anyway.

(solar radiation in the visual spectrum = they block out light)

[sobieniak.livejournal.com]

Of course the music/body sounds here kept making me get visions of my mom going down the aisles of an A&P or a department store!

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

I had actually been thinking of just putting another set of fabric in front of the curtains that are already there; the walls are white and white curtains are kinda boring, so having yellow facing the interior would be at least not as boring as white. But I don't know if the brackets would handle double the weight.

The windows are huge - one whole wall of our unit is window, 11 and a half feet tall and what, 30 feet wide? I forget. Merely one of the challenges of urban life.

[tochiro998.livejournal.com]

car window tinting!

White fabric paint on the outside face of the curtains?

I'm.....not helping, am I?