Situation Update, Project Update and More!!

Here's a small update on the New Caledonian adventure which by the way is more of a "dealing with the french consulate" adventure up to now. Bright eyed and bushy tailed, oh early hour at the doctors office for my consulate medical. How much of a tough cookie are you? Well I'm not a spring daisy but I don't know how tough I should be... at which point he started jabbing sharp needles into my arm. Vaccines oh ye! Oh and blood work too, cool sorta, not really... an ECG, what the hell is an ECG, ok so you put stickers on my chest and look at the computer monitor for a few minutes, at least there's no needles involved! A chest X-ray, cool, I love the smell of radiation in the morning! After the fun and games at the doctors office it's back to paper work... bloody hell will this never end.

Project update, I showed you a nasty looking little anvil a while back and now I show it to you again. All that remains is a nice final polish and an appropriate looking tree stump to mount it on and it's done. Doesn't look half bad if you ask me. Now what I really need is to learn how to use it properly!

And now for something completely different! In the shits and giggles category I'm proud to present to you the Dali-esque, music lovers, listening room clock! I saw this on Make or Instructables some time ago but never really went ahead with the idea which I think is really cool. Anyway, boil one long play record (yes that's what people mean when they say I just bought a new LP.... long play) so boil your long play until quite pliable and, quite literally, throw it unto a convenient shelf nearby, watch it re-solidify for a few seconds. Install a cheap quartz clock movement and you're done. Cheap and cheery!