The good news is that I should have my digs leased on friday. THE Information is that I will need to work on some minor technical issues. I called up gee to kvetch with her about this, since I have never rented an apartment on my own, and have always been free of having to make the technical decisions about the public side of the interior spaces.... Where The HARD STAND is, that I get to do... did you know that many americans do not consider their final combat positions when they are looking for personal domicile spaces? Even Now many of my co-workers have never stopped to think about where they were putting their final combat positions. Weird, Now Isn't That...
Anyway Gee offered me some suggestions on interior decorating, listing several good gun shops in the area - and of course I could, say, go to IKEA...
I mentioned to her that I was thinking on falling back on basics, and was considering getting a bunk bed. This way I would have a place for a NonMalePerKin to spend the night over... Which she thinks is a good step forward.... that we solve first things first. First you invite them over for a while, and don't actually have to sleep with them... Some How, She Has This IRRATIONAL BELIEF that NonMalePerKin are not all dangerous.... As I was explaining to ruth, I am already organizing to have various fuzzyWuzzy clothing items that I am not that committed do, as my experience indicates that NonMalePerKin tend to wrap up in FuzzyWuzzies, and BOING that's the last that you see of the FuzzyWuzzy...
She of course noted that I could always get myself a dog, that way I could fill up the crib with Dog Stuff. At which point I noted that IF I merely wanted to hand over the choices on how the place was done I'd just get me a NonMalePerKin - it has traditionally solved that problem, with all of the dilletorious side effects.
Then I was thinking about How Francine had helped out Kristina, with these really Great Fabric additions. Some Really NICE Stuff. So It struck me that I could do something really nice in say Kevlar with some really nice carbon fibre interlayers, put it under the rug and around the walls of the hard stand - and then all I have to do is work out what to do with the surface fabric...
Ok, so maybe trying to camophlauge my place has the minor technical defect that It would mean understanding more about how the average american lives their normal average lives with normal average stuff... And then all I would have to do is make my crib look mostly like that...
Do any of you know any Normal People I could investigate?
Would Getting a Vapor's Band Poster, with say the lyrics to "living In Bunkers" be, well, not quite, uh, what it had been... Or just too patently obvious? Or should I go with a sense of subtlety and do the whole 'turning japanese' motif....