I like your humble abode,
Red! *wonders why there's a hole in an exterior wall* Anyway, here are photographs of my own humble apartment - made today especially for this very thread! Remember,
Red, you asked for it....
These photographs were made under less-than-ideal circumstances: I didn't fuss with the camera to obtain the best possible exposures, but merely set it on automatic and opened the shutter. Sorry.
Here, below, we see such objects as The Comfy Chair and the couch/sofa without back cushions (explanation provided upon request). Also visible are the "coffee" table, the cat's observation tower and one of two oil lamps. That wall hanging is a gift from an on-line friend in Pakistan, Nilofar Jalwana. She's an artist and also has a wicked sense of humor.
Please click on the image to view its full size.Continuing around from the cat's observation tower we see a hookah (another gift from my friend Nilofar in Pakistan), a temple bell from Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands (souvenir of my stay there) and various other artifacts of the Orient. Then there's the air conditioner, the cat's scratching post, the other oil lamp and the chest upon which is placed my tiny collection of Fake Ancient Egyptian Artifacts (guarded, as you can see, by
Princess Menace of Amara). Next comes the weather station, a digital versatile disk player and the "media center" cluster of machines.
Please click on the image to view its full size.This photograph (below) shows all kinds of stuff. It's basically a view of my "dining room" or, more accurately, my dining space - although I never dine there. That black chair at the table was made in Sweden, by the way. Hanging from the ceiling is the really-cheap "chandelier" (actually an electrolier, since electricity rather than candles or gas provides the illumination) which is rarely used. On the wall - lighted 24/7 by a small picture lamp - is a copper artwork created by my friend Sunny Crittenden in Ontario, Canada. It's titled "Dirty Mermaid". On top of the air-cleaning machine in the corner you can see some plush toys given me by a few on-line friends. They're supported by the remnants of a second Swedish chair which collapsed under my weight whilst I was attempting to change the bulb in a fluorescent light fixture. Ow! In front of those soft personages, on the floor, is the cat's food-and-water station. In the foreground on the floor is a small high-quality rug, yet another gift from Nilofar. Atop the bookcase is a Radio Corporation of America Radiola model 513, manufactured in 1941 (three years before I was). It still works!
Please click on the image to view its full size.Rounding off the living-room series is this view, below, which shows the front (one and only) door, an angel made for me by a friend in the U.K. and (on the floor) my trusty "Flyvåpnet" Norwegian Air Force backpack. That small photograph in the nice wooden frame on the wall shows my father, back in 1929.
Please click on the image to view its full size.Finally, here below is a photograph of how the Communication Room looks today.
Blue the cat is atop her feline observation platform. Dirty laundry looms in the foreground. The uppermost work-station shelf in view features my Canon BJC-210 printer, which hasn't worked in ages simply because I refuse to support the ethically and morally corrupt ink-cartridge industry anymore. To the left of that machine we find
Major Clanger of
The Clangers fame, along with
Robbie the car - both items being gifts from the same U.K. friend who sent me that angel which hangs near the front door. Then there's
Yoko Ritona taking a break along with
Boota. (By the way, in case I neglected to mention this elsewhere on the board, that's my one-and-only remaining
Yoko figurine. All the others were given by me to a trio of costume players living in the Portland metropolitan area.) On the two speaker shelves are a couple of
Princess Menace of Amara figurines. She escaped the mass exodus of figurines here!
The center of our attention, however, is focused upon
Yomako the wonderful computing system which
Orion - with help from other board members - sent me last Christmas. Thanks again, folks! She's working away like a real trooper. To the left of
Yomako's monitor is my trusty Motorola Surfboard modem, which has given me excellent service for the past ten years.
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