Just woke from strange dream in which I lived with unspecified
number of housemates in the suburbs, and
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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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.
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I think I still favour "Circle of Confusion" but it could be too many syllables for some audiences.
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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.
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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.