Slaying the Sleep Monster

January 12th, 2009

I did what I needed to do, like getting rid of my caffeine tolerance, gaining on the sleep monster and upgrading of electronics (as always) among other things. But my house is so cold that my lava lamp doesn’t even work. Sure, the upside is the gaming rig that never overheats, but is it worth defrosting my milk?

So change of plans. I didn’t take the train back to Purdue. Mom saw all the snow that I shoveled on Friday and insisted that she drop me off Sunday morning. I was disappointed that I wouldn’t get to take my shield through a train station, but it wasn’t all bad because I could hang out with friends one last time. Increased my snowboarding skill and played Rock Band 2 at John’s house. (While I was singing his mom said I should “keep my day job”.) BTW, Walthers singing “Hungry Like the Wolf” = effin priceless.

Did I relish the thought of standing at the top of the escalator and challenging all who dare ascended? You know I did. I even memorized some 300 quotes to say during the trip. But my duffeloid probably wasn’t up to anything near the amount of snow Chicago received with it’s tiny inline skate wheels.

So we drive down into Indiana early Sunday morning. And we find no snow accumulation in Lafayette at all, but we do find a lot of rock salt accumulation. Oh, well. That’s what I brought the doormat for. And the adhesive hooks I brought are going to make this semester much awesomer than last.

His shield was heavy.

January 5th, 2009

I can never seem to stop moving in. I ama chair bringing yet another chair. This one is a planet chair from Meijer that folds flat into a disc.

However, I don’t want a recurrence of last time when I was unable to efficiently carry a package with both hands and pull a duffeloid with my free hand/clipped to my belt. Solution, as expected, is duct tape. Lots and lots of duct tape.
strapped to my arm, the shield

The chair was first double-bagged to prevent it from tearing or getting dirty. Then it was sealed with several yards of clear tape. By making a handle and arm sheath, I redistribute the load to my shoulders and elbow and allow for full use of my fingers. Incidentally, this also makes it resemble a Spartan shield so I went ahead and finished the image with an upper-case lambda on the front. Oh this is going to be fun to push through a crowded station…

come and take them