General life stuff

I can take a complete shower in under 2 minutes! In other news, yesterday PG&E shut off our main gas line because it had a leak in it.

So far I'm 1 for 2 on gas leaks. At the old place, there were a couple tiny leaks in the laundry room, and eventually I called PG&E and a guy came out and said, Those are tiny, good nose, and fixed them, and checked out our heating register and showed me the gas shut-off valve, and it was neat. At this place, we could sometimes smell gas out front, and yesterday I had to hang around while the PG&E guy came and doubted me and wandered all over and finally found there was a tiny leak in the main line under the house and shut the whole thing off. Feh.

I did locate the way to get under the house, though, when no others could, and as soon as I get some decent batteries into the flashlight, and have the surety of being able to shower and wash my clothes after, I'm going to check it out. There's an odd square patch of flooring in the living room, half under some bookshelves, and I want to know if it's a trapdoor.

I also got to watch the gas get shut off. The guy couldn't do it with a crescent wrench and his whole weight at first, so he banged on the back of the valve and used the wrench to loosen some big bolt back there. It seemed to involve an awful lot of banging for something you might have to do with a lot of gas leaking after an earthquake. Still, potentially useful info.

( Sleep, ACNW tickets, asian food )

Oh! And also

Yesterday I had to get up before 10 to move my car out of the 2 hour parking... Went to Piedmont to get the last Serenity comic. They had only the Simon cover, which sucks, so I forwent it for the nonce. But! There was a big garage sale for Katrina relief, and there was a nifty leather laptop bag there with tons of pockets, for $1! Hoo hoo hoo!

And also? I found an Indian place. That delivers. Hah!! I love this city!

(Have I mentioned before the odd church group that handwashes cars for cheap at 23rd and Telegraph on Saturdays? Their color glossy handouts advertise, among other things, "Deliverance From Demonic Spirits." "My car: Clean, like my soul ain't.")

An all-syrup Squishee? Such a thing has never been done!

I also live two blocks from a 7-11.

So, we've got a dining room in this house with a baroque chandelier hung with lavender crystals... Fake fireplace, faded tropical paisley wallpaper, print of Michaelangelo's Last Supper...

One of my housemates has friends who needed to get rid of a pool table.

It's here, now. To get it here the movers had to take it apart, which involved peeling the felt off the slates that make the top. Alas, putting the felt back on wasn't in their job description, so we haven't been able to play yet...

There was talk about how to put on the felt. "We could staple it on... I read about this on the internet..." said a housemate. "It looks like it was glued," I said, looking at it. "I bet we could get clamps at the tool lending library." (Yet another Thing That Is Awesome About Oakland) "Maybe with an electric staple gun!" sez the housemate. "I don't think staples would go in to slate..." sez I.

She mentioned Friday that she'd picked up an electric staple gun at the tool lending library. ~What's that, Lassie? You think I should spend the weekend hiding in my room reading, occasionally cackling at the noises of staples bouncing off slate? Yeah, me too.~

It's ok, I'm empty inside

Pool table! Poooooool table...

Pang! Pang! Pang! Then they took me up on the offered hot glue gun.

I'd forgotten how much I enjoy pool. Such a clean game. And you get to lean on the cues like they were wreathed in flowers...

There was also discussion of the bigass Halloween party we will throw in this Addams Family house. Saturday, October 29th. Dead rock star theme. You're all invited!

They say I look most like Robert Plant or some guy from Whitesnake. I'm thinking I might do Paul McCartney since I know more of his songs, and I sing in his register.

*Looking at pictures of Plant and Whitesnake* Apparently my hair-taming Frizz-Ease isn't working quite as well as I might hope. Heh.