Now with 20% Less Meat!
New tile in the kitchen, bathrooms, and mud room make for a few stressful days for 3 people with one bathroom and no appliances. No longer though! The installers are done and I have the heated floors wired. I still have some trim work and painting but that will go relatively easy.
In case you are wondering, the picture has been desaturated and the tile actually has some tan tones.
Mari Ann said it best when she uttered, “When was the last time we had tater tots?” This, of course, should be a familiar site to anyone who has ever had to move an appliance. The years of looking casually around for witnesses and sweeping a fallen object under the stove had finally caught up to me. I had braced myself for the horror I would inevitably uncover and was actually expecting far worse. Remember everyone, just inches away from your seemingly spotless kitchen dwells a pile of hair, skin flakes, dust, food, and possible mouse skeletons waiting to be uncovered once you decide to improve your house.
I had another 11th hour week on this one. On Monday night I found myself driving around town looking for something that would make a good photo. I went downtown but didn’t see anything jumping out at me. After giving up and heading back home, I saw a church all lit up and looking nice and churchy. I turned around and got out the camera and tripod and started shooting. It was a beautiful church but there was nothing interesting for a photograph that I could see. Disappointed, I went home and took the camera gear downstairs to edit.
Right as I hit the basement, I saw my pinball machine all opened up for a repair I worked on over the weekend. I knew then that I had a worthy subject for this week. There are wires, motors, solenoids, and subways everywhere. A pinball machine is not like any other machine I have ever worked on. A computer hides most of its secrets under the cover of a microprocessor. With a pinball machine, the mechanisms that allow the game to run are visible to the naked eye. At first glance, the underside of a playfield appears chaotic. After you are forced to make repairs, it all starts to make sense and the whole thing seems a lot less menacing and much more elegant.