…well almost….
…am juggling several small projects (between work days) during lockdown…
…the above is a template for one of those…
…waiting for the paint shop to open again so I can get the last three colours for that enormous piece that needs finished….
…busy, busy, but not blogging regularly….
…choosing to be on nightshift can often mean that you are unintentionally excluded from participating in the day to day group activities of a busy, team oriented workplace….
…there’s been considerable excitement at ours about a company wide, branch versus branch Xmas “decorate-the-office-competition” …
…someone even managed to borrow a float from Dunedin’s Santa Parade for group photos….of course they were arranged to take place whilst I would be sound asleep….
…I know I’m renowned for my anti Xmas-spirit…but deep down I’m a competitive bastard and was starting to feel a little left out…..the float was in the shed when I arrived at work and that note on the notice board did say I could shift it if I needed to…..
…so I had my own Santa Parade….
…so you should probably dock me 20 minutes for pissing about, Boss…
…jingle bells…
…(and the photos? ….. taken the next day before I clocked out!)…..
…I break my “what?-is-lockdown-over-and-I-was-so-busy-painting-that-I-didn’t-notice” silence and post….
…the last “octopied” piece I completed before disappearing down the rabbit hole that is my current obsession…
…I’m on the final stretch now…
…one more piece to complete…
…cosmetic tidying up to do…
…the overly complex framing to make
…and then I’ll have some “spare” time….
…maybe I’ll do a post or two…
…no rash promises….
: P
p.s…..thank you Paul for reminding me of my obligations to my wordpress community…without you this would be a blank page!….
…..that’s it….less than a crate of stock left…three items still to be collected….the large radio station record unit (that’s still in the pictures) has gone to it’s new forever home….
…the record shop is finally closed….(apart for some tax stuff)…
…now I can have my hallway back….
…and my free time?….
…I’ll be dealing with these….
…75 or so “donor” paintings, just waiting to be “Otcopied”, that have amassed whilst I’ve been busy….
…(has anyone seen my paint brushes?)….
…(and why does there seem to be rather of a lot of wooden items accumulating ’round the house?…are they possibly associated with “Toneware”)….
….(hmmm, I’m going to be busy, aren’t I?).
…”gallery” signage from a week or so ago…all re-stocked now…
…and rushing off to start on my first skull & bones commission…
…busy busy.
…we got records…
…Dunedin is raining records at the moment….
..hurry! whilst stocks last!
…er…before stocks topple and crush me to death.
…(this is third big collection in less than 2 months…I’m so busy I hardly have time to blog!….or stare out the window).
…first time I’ve missed posting since I started this blog….
…but this collection took me way longer to price out than I was expecting (2hrs longer!)…
…6 plastic cubes chock full of amazing stuff…three Dole banana boxes of ok stuff…and three more banana boxes that went straight to Restore (Hi Sarah!)…(Restore is our local Habitats For Humanity charity shop, support it please)…
…many thanks to my good friend Dee who had to rearrange her band practice (that’s kinda like re-herding cats after they’ve stampeded) because I wasn’t watching the time and don’t have a cellular device…
….I broke the “no-shop-on-your-day-off” rule as well, just to try and clear the floor…
…and I’m still processing it on Tuesday…
…nearly 1000 lps and associated 7″s…blues, country, folk…early NZ stuff….gems!!!
…so much good stuff I could poop…
…but don’t have time!
(teaser alert)
…never seen this one before…
…(radio play comedy thing I think)…
…must be old, because I’m pretty sure you can’t eat Kiwis anymore…(well, not in a restaurant anyway)….
…will start cleaning & pricing in a couple of weeks….
…once I’ve regained my blogging equilibrium.
…you’ll all be relieved to know that my good friend Jungle Fari turned up safe and well on Thursday… he’d been playing some gig up Karamea way and hadn’t thought to keep me fully informed….
…and any one knowing the whereabouts of Mr. Heazlewood please get him to call in to our menswear department and take the load off our harried staff who, even as we speak, are being run ragged with inquiries as to the well being of his underpants….
…I know it’s uncool to post pictures of screen shots but, hey, how often do your search engine terms read like this?
… I am very busy …. following my stats….. far too busy to write cohesively ….
…. seems that the young chaps whom I photographed for my post
https://boredinarecordshop.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/come-on-in-the-cardboards-fine/
have discovered the evidence and are in the process of letting all their mates know…
… while I do appreciate the huge spike in “views”, I hope for their sake that they take into account the small degree of separation in NZ….
…and that they haven’t “friended” their employers on facebook at some point in the past and forgotten about it….
…. so if you , my small gaggle of regular followers, will forgive my distraction…
… and accept this gift of shell pictures until I return to my usual, little noticed, self.
Breath in…
All my grand plans for blogging up a veritable storm of wildly funny anecdotes today have long flown out the window…. I’ve taken below average monies…Misters Heazlewood & Gutteridge & my good good friend Dee graced the shop with their musician oriented jibber-jabber…Nice couple from Melbourne…talked musical shit for ages…then sent them off to find our mutual acquaintance Mr Heazlewood, whom they’d missed by 10 minutes…. Junglefari also stopped by for a catch-me-up on some sound-system/dancehall bidniz …I have drunk/ given away two pots of coffee… I’ve had my first out of town customer who found me via the blog …shoulda taken his photo, but his wife & kids came rolling into the shop with the pressing need to be doing touristy things instead of waiting in the car…. took me till 2.30pm to finish my lunch….. had a box of 45s arrive from ol’ buddy Chris, without whom we all might not be experience these mutual moments, being as it was his high paying job & penchant for air freighted obscurities (anyone else here remember shopping overseas “before the-intraweb”?) that largely shaped my passion for exploring every avenue of music I possibly could….this box of 45s contains a single that I’ve been trying to find since Chris played it to me over 30 years ago…I’ve never seen another copy….. I’m so happy I could shit!
This is so rushed I’ve been back to edit it 4 times….
Breath out.
Does this cloud look an elephant to you?
Bored with a record shop. 