Oh yeah, and this happened three nights in a row:
One side of the bed kept falling off completely, one time with me in it. I thought I had given it a good temporary repair, but no dice. After getting rid of the carpet, I'd been scooting the bed around a bit more and it has a heavier mattress on it now. The futon is soooo heavy, it's much harder to move than the other mattress was. The books in the photo are there in my attempt to prop up the slats and rails so I could put the legs and side rail back on. I finally got some metal brackets and secured all four corners of the bed inside and out. It's been a few days and it seems to be ok for now.
Between stripping the bedroom carpet and being ill a few weeks ago, the rest of the house has become a bloody fright. My aim for today is to get some semblance of order back into the common area.
Yesterday was another full day at the East Portland Eagles Lodge with Frankenstein's Comic Book Swap from 11 to 6, and Comix Thing from 9 to midnight. The highlight of the daytime portion was when these two old guys, who have been my customers since the earliest Frankenstein's shows, bought all of my cutout color newspaper strips. I threw in the plastic containers for free. I gave them a great deal because I like them, and also I was hoping someone would want to take all the strips at once. Win-win!! The highlight of Comix Thing was getting to DJ again! One of my friends asked me to DJ an upcoming event for this year's Portland Zine Symposium last night, so it seems I have a future. The evening had an awkward moment when a man tabling next to me suddenly began critiquing my playlist and demanding to hear the Rolling Stones, in the midst of an anti-Republican rant. Also he did some air guitar stuff to Stereolab, which is never ok. But all in all it was super fun and I've been invited to DJ the next Comix Thing.
I guess that's all the news I have right now. I'm kind of tired of music for today, understandably, so I'm listening to this at the moment. Happy Easter!
