When is the moon going to land?

One of the nice things here is rewiring my stereo, complete with a network interface from a friend so I can easily play all my old CDs (long since converted to MP3). The following brief conversation happened as we had Brian Eno’s Apollo playing.

Shannon: This music is for the moon landing.
Nefarious: When is the moon going to land????

Hahaha…!

Other than that I cooked a great meal today — rare tuna flank steak and a really light mix of green veggies (sugar snap peas, green beans, asparagus, and green onions) in garlic butter with cous cous. One of the best things I’ve made in a while, and incredibly simple and done in under ten minutes from start to finish.

Tomorrow morning the work begins on getting my Sterling on the road for the first time in its roughly thirty year life… A lot of people choose to modernize their kit cars when they do the builds so much later than when the car was first created, but I am of the mindset that it’s better to try and create it with the vision of the original designer, in the time of the original designer. I think I might go all-out and even do a classic paintjob.

Anyway, this is the view looking north from our apartment. It really is remarkably treed in every direction. It’s funny how from the ground a city can look so grey, but once you get up in the air, you see just how green it is. That’s fog in the photo by the way, not smog.

Oh, and quack again.

7 Comments

  1. mark wrote:

    That paintjob makes me think of Tron.

    Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 7:00 pm | Permalink
  2. jonny wrote:

    shannon you have to, i mean HAVE TO, paint the sterling that way now.
    youll be the envy of every canadian

    Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 8:02 pm | Permalink
  3. Caitlin wrote:

    I’d like it in varying shades of purple. Gorgeous.

    Monday, July 21, 2008 at 7:51 am | Permalink
  4. Uncle Flo wrote:

    I am completely charmed by “When is the moon going to land?” Have fun with the Sterling!

    Monday, July 21, 2008 at 10:46 am | Permalink
  5. Gracie wrote:

    I just had a very hard morning, and that little conversation totally made my day.

    Monday, July 21, 2008 at 11:02 am | Permalink
  6. Paul wrote:

    I was going to say that car reminds me of Tron but, someone beat me to it.

    Maybe you could make a tron costume to go with it? lol

    Monday, July 21, 2008 at 4:10 pm | Permalink
  7. Skod wrote:

    One day while wandering the streets of Boston I walked past a college student from Berklee. His belt was sideways, his hat was angled and he had his collar popped. After dismissing him as one I assumed to be a “bro” I read his shirt, and it told me, “Listen to Brian Eno” I was suddenly frozen in amazement because he and I were more alike than I thought. Once I got home I solemnly clicked the FLAC buttons to fill my apartment with The Plateaux of Mirror and I firmly reminded myself to never judge a book by his popped collar.

    Friday, August 1, 2008 at 10:34 pm | Permalink
Wow Shannon, that's really annoying! What is it, 1997 on Geocities? Retroweb is NOT cool!

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