Posts Tagged ‘Monkey’

With the move to Melbourne fast approaching… Much much too fast (Yet too slow), and with my place in urgent need of cleaning for a long time now I thought I should get some cleaning/throwing shit away. I finally got down too it yesterday. I set up a large sturdy bin bag (one that can “stand by itself” but not quite.) and a large garbage bin, and I start throwing shit away.

I’m quite a pack rat so there is a fair amount of junk to throw out. In my usual pack rat fashion there were a few things that made it through but fortunately not a great deal. I made some strict rules to stick by when sorting through things.

1. if it’s in anyway broken – It goes
2. If I haven’t used it or looked at it in five years – It goes
3. If I were to show someone and they’d look at me like I was a crazy person for keeping it – It goes

And the most important one -

4. If in doubt throw it out

The most important rules always rhyme.

It didn’t take me long before I was filling both bins.

But, as always happens when I sort through my shit personal belongings, I find quite a few things that I’d forgotten about or things that bring back old memories. I found notes (upon notes upon notes) of old stories that I’d forgotten all about – anything that looked important I scanned into the computer and then threw them out. I found old letters from a penpal, instructions for a homebuilt tattoo gun (which I also still have), I found floppy disks and old kinder surprise toys, lots of crap interesting stuff. I also found lots of old doodles I used to do at work. Including this little fella –

And suddenly my procrastination drive kicked in and I spent the afternoon turning it into this -

I call him Reginald.

While working on him I was considering what to do with him. One thing I always wanted to do was make a little logo thing-a-ma-jig with my initials to put at the bottom of my blog posts, not sure why – just cause. A little see-ya-later at the end of the post… And that’s exactly what I did with him. He’s made his way into the PHP code of my posts so I don’t do anything, he just pops up there. See? See him down there?

I also put him up in the Header Banner for now. So that would make this the most monkey-filled post you’ll see today.

Well, that’s it for now. I have to get back to cleaning and throwing things away.

So, Bye from me and from Reginald “Spanky” Monkey.