The juggeling act goes on....... hustle, scramble, hustle.. avoid the yawning pits in the road and the big assed bear traps... then maybe you have a grab at the brass ring... or at least thats the thoery...
Razors... if you get the best you can find.. your set for life...
Not the most expensive... the best and.... there is a difference... I try hard to find the best whatever... I dont want 5 cheap anything.... I want one...
I live in small areas...mostly under 200 square feet.....it began when I was a kid living in flea bag hotels with one washroom per floor.... I kept it up working rennfaires and craft shows.. it was all about trucks, tents and tarps, there was the occasional apartment.. they mysterys of which I never did figure out..
However thats not the point..... I've never had the luxury of wasting money on shite....or the room to store said shite.... everything has a destiny and purpose..there are no string collections, drawers full of dead batteries, old cell phones or cheap flashlights that never work... no ink pens that are dead... none of it...
I'll spend $20 on a pen..... but it's gonna work no matter how long it sets.... I have paid over $100 for a Mont Blanc..... but my $7 papermate was a nicer pen....so I sold the Mont Blanc to some guy who hated the idea of me owning one.... can't have the lower classes being all uppity now can we.....
So... papermate is good.... I do like waterfords and Cross pens.. but the agenda is different.. its more an art thing.... I still want the right feel and flow... which is ironic given my hand is anything but beautiful....something about broken bones, misspent youth and nerve damage ending in penmanship no amount of pratice will fix...
Still... I like pens with silver barrels... maybe ivory if they aren't totally gay.. horn, ebony.. all things interesting... not that I collect or buy them.... its just a fancy... a notion... Im not bent to take pen in hand...or ceremonially sign anything... and the $7 pen is just as good for my purposes..
I keep thinking about the fluffy one......and 200 square feet... then I study actual floor plans, thinking... this could be art... its not like Im not a tricky bastard.... Think Vardo... gold leaf, carving, stained glass.. wheel engraved.. etched.. glue chipped.. hard wood everything.. leather this an that... custom whatever...
Not to mention solar panels an a neon kit.... pneumatics...
Mobility, 10 acres in some green Eden... and a garden shed.
I keep stirring around...making notes... and sooner or later its going to come together...
Yeah, I hear you, since I been living in a house, I've become a shitehawk. Once, everything I owned fitted in a car, or got left behind when I flitted, happier times.
ReplyDeleteCrap weighs me down and makes me slow.
ah a good pen, not happening with kids unless u dig a hole an bury it and even then they can sniff it out
ReplyDeleteUsed to be a back pack an a suit case took it all..
ReplyDeleteThen a foot locker... then a truck... then down the slippery slope...