Thursday, June 21, 2007

The Five Hour Job

This morning I took on the task that no one who has come into this building or been offered to stay in this room was willing to take on... I cut into a 5 inch cast iron city drainage (sewer) line! It took me literally FIVE hours of constant cutting and drilling to cut through it. I cut through a two inch pipe the other day with the same saw in under half an hour. The problem with this one was the only access to it was by means of a small crawl space between the two floors. I have made the hunk of iron I cut out my own personal trophy of accomplishment.

Riding my bike beside Greenwood Cemetery while listening to Postal Service is my kind of therapy. The black metal fence blurring the thousands of gravestones as I petal by gives it an old reel type home movie look. Even the zut zut zut noise of the fence posts passing by seems as if the clicking of the frames from one to the next.

I'm starting to get caught up in Neon Genesis Evangelon. I here they are making a movie of it this year. While most of the actors are english the movie is in Japanese. I hope they subtitle it and bring it out over here as well.

Russian soups are best with sour cream mixed in. A raw cabbage salad is so much better than you would think.

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