Question

What is the source of the "I'm in your...'verbing' your..." joke?

Like, "That's right, I'm in your pantry, eatin' your CocoaPuffs", or Adam's recent post "I'm at ur gatez, bein' a barbarian."

or:


Where does it come from? Who started it?

Knackered

I haven't been this tired in weeks, but it's the good kind of tired. It's the doing my part, changing the world one tree at a time, following the Presidents request that we all get out there and pitch in kind of tired.

Today I helped my roommate's girlfriend (Lisa) plant trees for her research. You may remember a post I had last year about helping insert weird gelatinous water sausages into another planting area, well this is a different plot of land with more traditional techniques. She is testing how well trees can survive when they are planted in different stages (small plug saplings, bare root 2 year old saplings, and the typical 2 year old container plants like you see at the garden store) by volunteers. We had to record how long it took us to plant a certain number of each type. there were about 30 volunteers, and we planted about 270 trees.

Of course Charlie had to choose the steepest slope for my group. Here's Lisa coming up to talk to us:
Yeah, we had to try to dig holes in that slope for about 30 trees, plant them, then climb up and down to place 3 bucket of mulch around each tree. Needless to say, we needed to stand around every once and a while to take a breather. As my team (Charlie and Katie) demonstrate perfectly.


All the same, Lisa seemed pleased with our work, although clearly we had more to do.


To top it off, I decided to ride my bike. It is the first time I was on my bike since some time around October, so it was a bit of a shock. After all that tree planting Charlie and I rode around a bit more to run some errands and grab some lunch. thankfully he was patient with me, because I had to get off and walk up a couple hills. Damn, time to get in shape again.

Now it's 8:30 on a Saturday night and I'm in bed. I have a glass of wine and a stack of library books, so its a quiet night in for me.

Hope everyone is well (hope Malissa is getting well and can join the safari) and having a wonderful weekend.

Walk the walk

I just criticized the frequency of monicore's posting, so I figured I better put up a new post so she can't call me out.


Today's post will be about cars. As some of you may have noted, I've become obsessed with a British car show called Top Gear. As a result, I've found two motor vehicles I would like to own.

The first would be for myself. It's not a grocery getter, that's for sure. For groceries you need a Volvo wagon, for weekend road trips you want the Aston Martin DB9 (as seen in Casino Royale.)


The next is also from Top Gear, specifically the episode where they took a Ford Transit Van around the Nurburgring in Germany. For those that don't know the Transit, it is the top selling light commercial vehicle in Europe with over 5 million sold since 1965.


I love the European look. Imagine it painted a warm gray, with some sort of cool logo on the side. Something to do with a chisel maybe. Another advantage is that it has enough flat cargo space to carry 4x8 sheets of plywood between the wheel wells. Perfect vehicle for a furniture design shop....

But then if the modern Transit is perfect, how much better would it be to have a restored classic:

A vehicle like that really says something about a company, it screams out a certain sensibility, a certain thoughtfulness about the blending of traditional and modern design.

I expect Gustav to get on board with this. They don't just hand out Aston Martins, so I'll need to rake in the dough in any future furniture endeavours.

Now that's a rapper I can get behind!

toothpastefordinner.com

More work I admire

These are by a guy named Matt Gagnon. His work is pretty amazing, both as object and architecture. Definately the kind of stuff I aspire to.

The wall in the foreground is a wood frame holding stacked pieces of sheetrock salvaged from the original walls.




The routed plywood panel serves as a coat rack, and possibly a closet door.

marriedtothesea.com

How frustrating is it when you want some wine, you are flat broken until payday (tomorrow) and the only wine in the house is your old room-mates collection that he stores in the basement.

productivity... i has it

It's been a busy weekend around the house. That's not to say I haven't had a fair number of minutes (hours) in front of the TV, but I've been working as well. The basement need a good cleaning after the bed making, and then it was on to the next project. I've been wanting to refinish the kitchen table since I moved in, so I finally started today.


The table started out blue, but there were several areas where colors were showing through, and the paint had a really funky texture that tended to stick to paper, etc. I don't know what sort of paint they had used, but it was pretty nasty. The photo above is one of the legs, you can see bits of the various colors after it had a couple scrapings.


After I pulled more of the paint off I saw that there were some flowers painted on the leg, along with the original red paint.
I also found some carving on the underside, the names Jane and Elmer and the date 1932. I'm guessing the table has been in the house since it was first built. Pretty cool.

I briefly thought about leaving the various layers of paint and putting a clear coat over the whole thing. That thought passed. I think the table is redwood, and it will look really nice stripped down completely. I am going to carefully sand around the carving, so that it remains.

Given how long it is taking, I don't think I'll be finished until about this time next week.

Stay tuned...