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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 10:46am on 2004-10-05

Just woke from strange dream in which I lived with unspecified number of housemates in the suburbs, and [livejournal.com profile] anniemal was visiting and got really upset that a housemate's girlfriend said she had to move her car because it was blocking hers in, and I went to go take care of it and discovered that nobody was blocked in by anybody else but folks were trying to figure out how to attach a trailer full of small pigs to housemate's girlfriend's car to take them to market (only now, on waking, am I noticing that the pigs were awfully small for that ... but even in the dream I thought, "pigs in the suburbs?"), and the car in question had a trailer hitch but the trailer only had a loop of coat-hanger wire attached to it. In order to get lots of stressed people to calm down, I figured out how to attach the trailer to the car anyhow, but worried about speeds higher than 25 MPH. When I woke up I discovered that something in the house was squeaking terribly (maybe that explains the dream pigs?), so I woke up the rest of the way and found out that a box-fan in the living room was making the noise. Well, the weather has cooled off, so maybe I won't need that again until spring ... I hope simply cleaning and lubricating it (if I can figure out how to get it apart to the right degree) will suffice, and that the bearing isn't completely shot.

Now struggling towards coherence; Perrine is asking for food but she's left a fair amount sitting in her bowl from last night. Did not make it to the grocery store last night.

Last night as I was drifting off to sleep I was wondering whether they could use ground-penetrating radar to get a better idea what a volcano (specifically Mt. St. Helen's) was doing. Since I hadn't heard of anyone doing that, my guess was that it only works through soil, not rock. Now that I'm up I can hit Google to find out.

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posted by [identity profile] doubleplus.livejournal.com at 08:03am on 2004-10-05
By the way, "The Dream Pigs" would be a great name for a band! :-)
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 08:08am on 2004-10-05
#blink# You're right.

Still leaning towards calling the band I'm thinking of starting "Circle of Confusion", but "The Dream Pigs" does have a certain cross-genre appropriateness to it.
 
posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 08:41am on 2004-10-05
Glad you got the piggies off to market. And I'm vaguely offended that anyone could dream I'd block their car in. That's a mortal sin, isn't it? Unless no better logistics are possible and permission is obtained. But then, I don't know her. And I was inocent anyway.

I think I still favour "Circle of Confusion" but it could be too many syllables for some audiences.
 
posted by [identity profile] texas-tiger.livejournal.com at 09:46am on 2004-10-05
GPS and Mt. St. Helens:

Would you *really* want to volunteer to drag a GPS thingy across the top of a smoking volcano that might just erupt in a minute or two? Not to mention the earthquakes might shake your apparatus up a bit.
 
posted by [identity profile] maugorn.livejournal.com at 06:37am on 2004-10-06
Kaptain Kludge says that box fans aren't worth the trouble. Dumpster diving any college dorm in May will net you several that probably work just fine. The most undesirable feature on most of them, in fact will be the lint, that can be wiped off of the blades. Most of them, in fact are being thrown away because the knob on the on/off switch has fallen off.

You can pat yourself on the back for the kind of reconditioning you are contemplating, but you'd be using a whole lot of energy and resources on an item that is, in fact a very easy and very common "scrounge" item. I have not had to pay for a box fan in um...decades.

If you *want* to pay for a box fan, they show up for harvest in thrift stores and yard sales real cheap in late spring. Most of them work fine, but have the on/off knob missing.

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