it's curtains for you
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davemerrillFinally as of 2pm today we have curtains! Giant floor to ceiling things with pulley cords and even a little extended bit to cover the part of the window where vents exit and block off the ceiling. When they're drawn the place is DARK, and that's at 2pm on a sunny day. Makes a big difference in terms of heat - it's noticeably cooler now that the sun is not shining on everything in the place for 12 hours a day - and a lot quieter. Outside sound is blocked and inside sound isn't bouncing off the glass.
We went out Saturday on a whim out past Brantford down into the mysterious hinterlands. There's an antique mall in Waterford that we figured we'd check out. That's a ways out there. The mall's in an old building on the banks of some kind of small river and has kind of a neat assortment of stuff. It's split into two separate businesses; one side is your traditional antique mall booth action and the other side isn't quite as planned; for one thing you have to go past a barking, unchained dog and through what appears to be somebody's garden to get into the place. Inside there's a lot of dusty LPs, two cats, random accumulations of junk, and off in the corner a lot of comics and paperbacks and tin toys. Didn't pick up anything earthshaking but we'll be back for some items when we get a little more disposable income.
We left Waterford and sort of hounded and hared our way across the countryside. When we reached Lake Erie we figured we'd gone too far and backtracked to Simcoe, which is home to a biker-themed BBQ restaurant that does a lot of business with indifferent BBQ. I know, I'm spoiled, but when it's 6pm and you're hungry and you're in Simcoe, it goes down good no matter how authentic it is. From there we attempted to make our way back to civilization which involved a trip through the New Credit and Six Nations Indian reserves, the main industry of which seems to be little trailers selling various brands of tax-free smokes. One of the roads we went down became an unpaved road, and we shared it with a raccoon who was trotting along with a mouse in his jaws. I figure somebody's totem animal just had somebody else's totem animal for lunch. We eventually made our way back to the 403 and thence to the QEW and home.
Sunday we went up to the Ad Astra convention to see some Anime North folks. The con seemed to be in a much better mood than the last time we were there, something like five years ago... of course the nice sunny weather has a lot to do with the mood, I think. We did some socializing and then went out and got Japanese food for lunch. Back at home I worked on this week's Zero Fighter strip for a while, and then we went back out and bought some necessities (new laundry hamper) and some dinner and then I finished my strip and watched too much of "Hoarders" on TLC, which is fast becoming my favorite car-crash-in-slow-motion television series. It's like the Bizarro-world version of my OTHER guilty-pleasure favorite show, "Destroyed In Seconds." They should call this show "Destroyed In Decades."
And then I got up today and did a lot of moving furniture and sweeping and the guy showed up and now we have drapes. Drapes!!!
We went out Saturday on a whim out past Brantford down into the mysterious hinterlands. There's an antique mall in Waterford that we figured we'd check out. That's a ways out there. The mall's in an old building on the banks of some kind of small river and has kind of a neat assortment of stuff. It's split into two separate businesses; one side is your traditional antique mall booth action and the other side isn't quite as planned; for one thing you have to go past a barking, unchained dog and through what appears to be somebody's garden to get into the place. Inside there's a lot of dusty LPs, two cats, random accumulations of junk, and off in the corner a lot of comics and paperbacks and tin toys. Didn't pick up anything earthshaking but we'll be back for some items when we get a little more disposable income.
We left Waterford and sort of hounded and hared our way across the countryside. When we reached Lake Erie we figured we'd gone too far and backtracked to Simcoe, which is home to a biker-themed BBQ restaurant that does a lot of business with indifferent BBQ. I know, I'm spoiled, but when it's 6pm and you're hungry and you're in Simcoe, it goes down good no matter how authentic it is. From there we attempted to make our way back to civilization which involved a trip through the New Credit and Six Nations Indian reserves, the main industry of which seems to be little trailers selling various brands of tax-free smokes. One of the roads we went down became an unpaved road, and we shared it with a raccoon who was trotting along with a mouse in his jaws. I figure somebody's totem animal just had somebody else's totem animal for lunch. We eventually made our way back to the 403 and thence to the QEW and home.
Sunday we went up to the Ad Astra convention to see some Anime North folks. The con seemed to be in a much better mood than the last time we were there, something like five years ago... of course the nice sunny weather has a lot to do with the mood, I think. We did some socializing and then went out and got Japanese food for lunch. Back at home I worked on this week's Zero Fighter strip for a while, and then we went back out and bought some necessities (new laundry hamper) and some dinner and then I finished my strip and watched too much of "Hoarders" on TLC, which is fast becoming my favorite car-crash-in-slow-motion television series. It's like the Bizarro-world version of my OTHER guilty-pleasure favorite show, "Destroyed In Seconds." They should call this show "Destroyed In Decades."
And then I got up today and did a lot of moving furniture and sweeping and the guy showed up and now we have drapes. Drapes!!!
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Date: 2010-04-13 11:12 pm (UTC)Destroyed in Seconds takes it to the next level, worshiping at the altar of video effects gods.
When they go to show a clip and -after three or four run ups to it- they show it and then cut away for another effects pass right at the critical moment, they're just showing off the edit suite. It's not about the clips. It's about how many edits they can add in.
It reminds me of how long Dragonball takes to do a fight scene. Destroyed in Seconds is kinda like that, but with crashing helicopters and that oil tank in Texas, and that freight train in Mexico, and the gas station in South Korea... and the apartment building that falls over. Oh and the guy who gets swallowed by the jet engine and lives. Can't forget that guy.
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Date: 2010-04-14 11:31 pm (UTC)Our idea was that we do a TV show, and they fly us all over the world and wherever we land, we have to find the thrift stores and the antique malls. I'd watch it!
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Date: 2010-04-15 02:00 am (UTC)Sometimes we go to these small town places and the proprietor is like "How the hell did you find us??" It's mostly flyers from other antique malls, or Google searches. You go to one, they have flyers to other ones, you go to a show and there's tables full of literature, seems like half the country is selling junk to the other half.