Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2002/07/Things discovered while housecleaning:
- a map of Tibet
- several books about Alan Turing
- several books by the guy who wrote Fight Club (Chuck P-something)
- a black, bulbous scary looking spider, about the size of a small cockroach
- Guinness
- an old Ikea catalog
- the fact that the skin on my my fingers hurts after using the nasty cleaning products on the stove
- marbles
- the fact that I have no idea how to clean an oven. I would assume just like any other thing, but ovens have a special “clean” setting and special cleaning stuff you can get at the store, which leads me to believe you somehow clean them when they are on or something. I know I heard somewhere about turning on the gas and sticking your head in the oven. Maybe that is the first step 😉
- stock options for AltaVista, now worthless because they never went public, so I will probably leave them in the bathroom in case we run out of TP for my bunghole.
- ancient Cliff bars — which are not that great when quote-unquote-fresh, much less expired earlier in the year
- a Mickey Mouse Lego firetruck
- lots and lots and lots of C-clamps (why??!!?)
- a bottle of Newcastle that I poured down the sink, to discover there was a soaked piece of paper still in the bottle. Closer inspection showed that the circular piece of paper was actually a skin of mold that had grown thick at the top of the fluid.
- marbles
- a bunch of those cool hand-dipped candles that come as siamese twins, with one string/wick connecting two candles
- a “push button for walk —>” sign, which is now affixed to the wall, using dissection T-pins, next to a pushbutton light-switch.
- a bobble-head goth-girl
- assorted loose Lego bricks
- lots of baskets. I hate baskets.
- plenty of stains on the carpets
- a pair of drinking birds
- a longing for two or more garden gnomes, the tackier the better
- assorted munitions boxes
Yep, that’s about it. I am about ready to pop open a fresh, thick, cold Guinness and pop on some Delta Blues or a DVD or something… It is quickly approaching sleepy time for this monkey.
It’s a vampire monkey!
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