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andygates ([personal profile] andygates) wrote2009-02-04 10:51 pm

Light and Shade

The universe has a sense of balance after all: after a Day From Hell (find the developer who puts half a printer's settings on the panel and half on the web interface, find him and break his fingers) I got home to find a shiny new BT hub and phone, and the last tranche of birthday toys: a Frost's Mora Clipper sheath knife (cheap, serviceable, sharp: throw in pannier or rucksack and forget) and an over-the-top jet lighter (that thermite doesn't light itself).  

It was still a crappy day.  But a crappy day with toys beats a crappy day without toys, neh?

[identity profile] jonnycowbells.livejournal.com 2009-02-05 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, but grizzled man in Alp say: he who craps with the most toys still craps.

[identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com 2009-02-05 10:37 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, but he craps reading a user manual for his new toy.

[identity profile] xeeny.livejournal.com 2009-02-05 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I misread that as an over-the-top jet fighter. The thermite bit then confused me.

Can you pimp a jet-fighter though? Go faster stripes on the missiles? A really big spoiler?

[identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com 2009-02-06 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)


I think so.