ooh, nice sink!

Whoops, I meant 150. Silly me. Those new refurbished ones can go for at least 5K.

The corners are rounded as in the Kirkbride style of building. Asylums in England (Cane Hill, Severalls, etc) never used the Kirkbride plans, preferring echelon instead. The corners probably have some use, though.

Comrades, the sputnik has landed!

Just wait a few more months, and it's going to be a fun slide!*




* not responsible for asbestos, lead paint, rusty nails, or whatever ends up inside you.

And on the sixth day, God sent forth furniture.
But He kinda missed, and they crashed through a skylight.

crapper chaos.

I saw one that worked pretty well at an estate sale, $50. It kept their cokes cold, but how am I going to drag it home, as I wasn't driving that day?
Sigh, it was such a shiny red, too.

c... c... c.. ah, here we go, cat.
Kitty probably went to go sleep in there, and just died.

Oh god, PLEASE LET IT BE UGLY FAKE MARBLED PAINT.
PLEAASSSEEE!

Such a nice color.
For once, I'm actually serious. Looks like something out of a few 50's houses I've seen.
Sad thing is, I was just in some houses that had been closed up since 2001. Now they're used for police training, etc. Built in the 40's, I guess. But god allmighty, they were absolutely HORRIBLE. ALL the plumbing was rusty, and there were all sorts of piles of junk everywhere. There was this hyper-orange hedgehog squeaky toy, bottle with moldy orange juice (both which I got to throw during high-risk entry), and lots of rodent callsigns. I tripped over a cheapo ugly chandelier, breaking a few good lightbulbs (oh, how I could have used you at home) and tracking glass around. I got a piece embedded in my combat boots :(.
So, who wants to help me carry the sink, tub, toilet, and soap dishes from the Catskills to San Francisco?

So...
was the house tasty?

There's a great park in Oakland, CA that's still in operation, Childrens' Fairyland. So storybook, and they began to fix up the little storybook boxes. You could buy a fairyland key, stick it in, turn it, and you'd hear the story. I'd imagine this place as a sort of Fairyland.

Today's menu...
-Paint Chips
-Stagnant Water
-Debris

Very pretty. Makes me wonder how the one in my town used to look.

Don't sneeze, morgal!

Oh god, I love built in drawers.

There was this beautiful blackn'gold safe at this abandoned building by the waterfront where I live. Closed though :(. I'm trying to remember the name, but all I come up with is "Buffalo Safe Co." which might not be it. I'm going back sometime and bringing my camera.

s3an - it would be a lot easier to just go by boat to Alcatraz ;).

Of course, Adrienne! It's nice and sweet and comes off just like potato chips!

What you're supposed to do is lie down in the center of the car, protecting your head and neck. Timing your jump to the time of impact would be near impossible, plus you'd get smooshed like a pancake.
I couldn't lie down, however, because it was a tiny-assed elevator crammed over the maximum, like imagine a 6 by 6 foot square area. Probably saved our asses, due to the elevator being a tight fit in the shaft, much like what happened in the 40's in the empire state building.

I can speak from experience - Elevators plummeting are NOT FUN. Only went about 2 floors or so (thanks to some idiots cramming in more than the recommended weight), but still...

let's hope that if some vandals chuck rocks at it it'll at least fall in on their heads.

Better lay off the sweets, motts.

I can just imagine parents saying "Now play nice, you don't want to go to that school, now do you?