We must have one of these...

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 Is there a woodshop on campus?  Or at least a place where I could get my hands on a workbench and some basic tools, including band saw, plane, spokeshave?  I'd go shopping but I don't think Hank is going to take to sawdust too well. 

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[info]x_dazzler
2004-09-30 02:14 pm UTC (link)
The garage usually has a working space set up for one thing or another. No clue about the woodworking tools though, I'm afraid. There's probably a toolshed on the grounds or - actually, Cain would know.

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 02:24 pm UTC (link)
If he doesn't answer here, I'll go look for him. Thanks. I didn't even consider using the garage space. I was just thinking of how silly Hank would look with wood-curls in his fur and figuring he wouldn't find it as funny as I might.

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[info]x_dazzler
2004-09-30 02:27 pm UTC (link)
Hrm. Is it for a specific love of wood working thing? Or just for the result? Something complex or simple?

They'd make for a neat improvised cat toy, though.

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 02:29 pm UTC (link)
The project's not terribly complex. I'm just too lazy to take the time to do it all by hand with a knife and rough plane if I don't have to.

..true, but the first thing Delphine does with sawdust is roll in it. The second thing she does is run get on the bed.

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[info]x_dazzler
2004-09-30 02:32 pm UTC (link)
Hrm. If I take a quick enough swipe at it and keep the lasers at low intensity, I don't think the whole thing would burst into flames. And it might go faster.

You'd probably have to sand off a layer or two at the very least though. Imagine that wouldn't take you too long anyway.

A cat is a cat is a cat...

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 02:43 pm UTC (link)
It's quite dry hardwood, but I have a few staves of it. But don't put yourself Alison, it's a silly little project of mine. Nostalgia, really.

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[info]x_dazzler
2004-09-30 02:46 pm UTC (link)
...

Oooh. Oh my. I think I know what you're getting at.

If I'm right... I'd be game, but at the same time, I don't know if I have the right touch for that. They can't be made in just any old way, really and I don't know the first thing about those.

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 02:50 pm UTC (link)
They're not that hard. I'm just a lazy old man who's not going to shun that lovely invention of electricity.

...if Nate keeps on being a grump, you can help me make him a rocker, though.

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[info]x_dazzler
2004-09-30 02:54 pm UTC (link)
Heh! I can't say anything there, being of the lazy persuasion myself. (Don't say it, Lorna.)

Nathan's old. He could use one of those.

We could settle him in one and install him by a fireplace. He could mutter and grumble while he rocks.

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 02:58 pm UTC (link)
Nathan's not that much older than I am, young lady.

But he's still older and God knows he grumbles. And I think he must be a little senile the way he keeps forgetting what he's not supposed to do for his own safety.

The rocker may be a better threat than the straitjacket. Hmmm.

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[info]x_cable
2004-09-30 03:03 pm UTC (link)
I don't forget. I just don't find these things out until I've already done them!

So it's not my fault. It's the universe's.

And now I should put the laptop away before Moira comes back and kills me. Or insists upon giving me another CAT scan, which is just as bad...

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 03:04 pm UTC (link)
And then YOU DO THEM AGAIN, NATHAN.

...I'm fine. Really.

I'll see you after your girlfriend's done tormenting you. Go behave.

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[info]x_cable
2004-09-30 03:09 pm UTC (link)
Now, I never said I learned from my mistakes.

And she is. Tormenting me, I mean. Sticking all kinds of little blinking beeping things at me and cursing under her breath.

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 03:12 pm UTC (link)
What DO you learn from? I'm flexible here, honest. Training does include the part about not dying/burning-out/imploding/having your brains run out your nose. I want to make sure we get that covered.

Good. I'm glad. I hope she keeps all the little sticky things in the freezer until she puts them on you.

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[info]x_dazzler
2004-09-30 03:13 pm UTC (link)
Hank keeps some in liquid nitrogen. Or at least he keeps saying he does. :)

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[info]x_cable
2004-09-30 03:17 pm UTC (link)
I respond real well to cold water. Just ask Moira.

And don't be giving her ideas.

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 03:20 pm UTC (link)
I can see it now...

Scott: Paul, why does your fieldkit include a special nitrogen-chilled supersoaker?
Me: Oh, that's for training Nate.

...that'll go over REAL well.

I have not yet begun to give her ideas. Really. We haven't collaborated once. Which isn't to say that it might not happen if you don't behave.

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[info]x_cable
2004-09-30 03:25 pm UTC (link)
Oh, ganging up on me? It always comes down to that in the end... Dom and GW have whole notebooks on 'ganging-up-on-Nate' tactics. With annotations.

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 03:28 pm UTC (link)
Oh, really? I'll make sure she brings one with her next time.

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[info]x_cable
2004-09-30 03:31 pm UTC (link)
I really wish I understood why people feel the need to 'manage' me.

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 03:40 pm UTC (link)
I am going to resist the urge to beat you with this training video when you get here.

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[info]x_wytchbrat
2004-09-30 07:29 pm UTC (link)
I'd say something about your ability to manage yourself sometimes, but tha'd be awfully forward and rude.

*pauses*

Who am I kidding? *grins*

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[info]x_dazzler
2004-09-30 03:12 pm UTC (link)
We could just start on your rocking chair. Pick out the fabric for the seat, stuffing material and all. Any colors in particular you'd prefer?

I'd say very senile on that score. And something of a stupidhead about it at times too.

I dunno. I think Moira has all the best threats in the world when it comes to keeping him from doing something vastly stupid.

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[info]x_cable
2004-09-30 03:15 pm UTC (link)
Blue. I like blue.

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[info]x_dazzler
2004-09-30 03:33 pm UTC (link)
I think Jean-Paul might like blue as well. But that's just a guess on my part.

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 03:18 pm UTC (link)
Yes, see, this is why I try to behave, so I will have Moira on my side.

I'm sure Clarice will be happy to make cushions.

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[info]x_dazzler
2004-09-30 03:32 pm UTC (link)
Well, I don't get myself blown up to kingdom come. (Or drown myself.) Means the doctors all tend to like me. ;)

Then we should ask Clarice. Muchly so.

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[info]x_blink
2004-09-30 05:29 pm UTC (link)
with or without those little buttons in teh middle and ties to tie the cushion to the chair >;P

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 05:32 pm UTC (link)
No buttons... he could choke on them. And no ties. He could get tangled in them. Velcro and snaps only. This is for Nathan, remember?

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[info]x_juggernaut
2004-09-30 06:32 pm UTC (link)
Most of what you need there I can lend you, provided you aren't gonna break them, and I can't see you doing that.

As for space, there's a workbench back behind the garages, or you could setup in one of the old stables. I'd let you use my workshop, but Mao likes sawdust and I don't want to find any in my kitchen.

Can't figure for the life of me how that cat gets into cereal boxes.

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 07:21 pm UTC (link)
You'd better hope he doesn't figure out tupperware. That's the only thing that keeps cat-entropy from taking over my kitchen. Delphine can open the fridge. And that means she can help herself to the soymilk if it's in the usual carton.

I'll take care of the tools, I appreciate it. I left all mine behind a long, long time ago. The workbench behind the garage will do quite well, thanks.

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[info]x_juggernaut
2004-09-30 07:24 pm UTC (link)
Aw, shit. They can learn to open the fridge?

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 07:35 pm UTC (link)
Yes, sir, I'm afraid so. Among other clever things like hiding the remote and your keys, falling in the toilet and then streaking through the house at full howl when you have a date over, getting shut in the laundry hamper, opening the sock drawer to play sock-ball, 'answering' the phone for you... hate to be the bearer of bad news.

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[info]x_juggernaut
2004-09-30 07:40 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, falling in the toilet I got already. Ain't nothing funnier than wet cat.

Hell, Mao's small enough he fits -in- one of my socks. Tries to kill it, gets inside and then I got a little ghost kitten with his nose sticking through a hole in the toe or something.

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 07:46 pm UTC (link)
...that's an appallingly cute image. Delphine hasn't been that small in a very long time. She was quite the little runt when I got her, small enough to fall into a wineglass at one point. Fortunately it was white wine, can't imagine trying to get red wine out of a taupe cat. She's also had trips into hot chocolate, various lattes, you name it. Sweet tooth.

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[info]x_juggernaut
2004-09-30 07:54 pm UTC (link)
Its more that I've got huge feet, than Mao's little. I mean, he's small, but my feet are -huge-.

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 07:57 pm UTC (link)
...good point. Delphine did bring one of your socks home at one point, I believe. A blue one. Did you ever get it back? I think that was when I was in medlab.

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[info]x_juggernaut
2004-09-30 08:01 pm UTC (link)
Nah. Didn't need it though, It was one of the ones Kermit was using for a sea monster sock puppet or something. Or a sock-war WMD. Can't keep track of what happens to the socks after the dryer eats half of 'em anyway.

.. I gotta fix that damn dryer.

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 08:11 pm UTC (link)
Good luck. If anywhere's going to prove that there's an alternate dimension behind the dryer-drum where socks go to breed and give birth to coathangers, it's going to be this place.

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[info]x_juggernaut
2004-09-30 08:14 pm UTC (link)
Don't say it! If you say it, it'll happen and then where the hell will we be? We'll be in the dryer dimension, there's where!

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 08:17 pm UTC (link)
Damn... this place is as bad as Canada. I'll drop my friends up that way a note. "If you don't hear from me by Friday night, please check Dryer Dimension. Bring foot powder and metal snips; also darning needles."

That way at least we'll get rescued.

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[info]x_juggernaut
2004-09-30 08:19 pm UTC (link)
Okay, Hermes, you owe me a beer. Mine's in my sinuses.

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 08:21 pm UTC (link)
If we're still here tomorrow night, you can collect from me at Harry's.

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[info]x_juggernaut
2004-09-30 08:25 pm UTC (link)
Hey, if the dryer dimension has beer you can get me one there.

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 08:27 pm UTC (link)
You want to drink Sock Beer?

...though I guess some of this American stuff comes close.

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[info]x_juggernaut
2004-09-30 08:29 pm UTC (link)
Better than no beer, I figure.

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[info]x_vega
2004-09-30 08:31 pm UTC (link)
You make a good point, oh pragmatic one. One way or another, you can collect from me tomorrow.