Friday night

[dryfter]

My back/shoulders have been aching quite a bit lately, so I've tried to stay off the computer in the evenings this week.

Tonight I've been sitting on the couch, sipping shiraz and listening to some good CDs to the light of a lava lamp, and watching the stars out of the window through the fluttering Tibetan prayer flags.

It's quite nice to put the laptop away for an hour and just.. relax and listen. Something I should do more often, really. Although the neighbours might not appreciate it :) (I've been on a kind of post-metal / shoegazing-experimental-rock kick this evening, and the volume level has not been subtle.)

I just hope my housemates don't come home and mind me re-arranging the furniture for optimum listening position :)


In the morning I have to get up early, and make it to seven or eight house inspections. :/
This weekend I'm looking at townhouses around the inner northern suburbs.

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In other news, I am a terrible vegetarian, as yesterday I bought a new jacket that is wonderful, but also made of AN ENTIRE COW (probably). My last (leather) m/cycle jacket was relatively cheap new, and it's looking pretty tatty these days.. If I'm not eating meat any more, then it kind of balances out if I buy a new leather jacket once or twice a decade, surely? My only other leather jacket dates back to the nineties, and still gets worn regularly.
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Anyway, I LIKE leather.

Comments

[phrixus-nyx.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you've had a nice evening relaxing, must be nice to be able to watch the stars out the window!

As for buying the leather jacket, I think it comes under the category of essential wear on the motorbike, it's not like there's a vegetarian equivalent that's anywhere near as good, if there was we'd all be wearing it!

Good luck with the house inspections

[kriyanna.livejournal.com]

Remind me to take you to Lefflers some time, and show you how much leather HALF a cow is. Then you'll realise a jacket is perhaps 1/4 at most. Cow skins seem rather big when laid out flat & stuff :) Or just come to mine and see how big a CALF skin is!

Wait, does this make me a bad vegetarian too? Hmm... it's weird when you work through life with an environmentalist point of view - that leather is the byproduct of the raging meat industry, and I still feel it's better to be utilized than thrown away.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I often wonder whether that's true, or whether some cattle are kept specifically for leather, like it is for milk and beef to some extent. I must get around to finding out. But I think leather is less bad than beef, because you buy it only once every few years.