Good stuff Dan, looking forward to pics!
Now, to start, I'd just like to say that my cat is pretty awesome in general (for a cat); he's one of the most laid back, friendly and smart cats I've ever come across. And his name is Frank - which is a pretty cool name for a cat. Normally, ol' Frank and I hang out quite a bit... He just saunters around, curls up some place warm, licks whats left of his balls and quite likes to stroll over to me at random and headbutt me in the face, as some sort of cat 'pack greeting' thing. This is all good by me.
However, at the core, he is still a cat... And as a result, suffers from the inevitable 'curiousity brain-snap' every now and then. Today's brain-snap kind of takes the cake for recent history; I will add at this point that the D-15 is SAFE however. BUT... I have a LOT of books (around 3000, which doesn't include magazines) and thus, have some rather inventive ways of stacking, double-stacking, triple-stacking and repurposing 'stuff' as book shelves (and model kit box shelves). So, just as I was settling down in bed in the wee hours of the morning, Frank - in his infinite wisdom - decides something like "Sh|t; I've been walking past these bookcases for the last 8-9 years and not once have they done ANYTHING to me... I don't trust that! Lets climb these things and ATTACK when the shelves least expect it!". So, in my semi-asleep state, I hear this galloping noise (much like a freight train drawing closer and closer); through drowsey eyes, I catch this ginger and white BLUR, doing very near the speed of heat, rip through the door, bounce off the bed, 90 deg course change - up on a desk (missing the D-15), 90 degree course change - onto the top of a high backed desk-chair, then OFF the top of the chair, aiming for the top shelf on a 1.8m high bookcase....
Of course, being the 'cat-of-action' that he is, he has failed in his recon duties and upon arriving (at a fair old clip) at the top shelf of aforementioned bookcase, finds its FULL... Of Books. Now here's where it gets blurry; from what I can tell, he has skittled a bunch of books out of the way and since they were zigging one way (towards the floor) he has zagged the other (towards the wall), use the full force of 'Frank-power' to push the bookcase away from the wall... Suddenly I find myself a LOT more awake, being about 1.7m away from a 1.8m bookcase, with a good 500+kg of precariously balanced books on it, that seems intent on toppling...
But does this stop our boy Frank?!?!? HELL NO!!!
In his PANIC, he manages to tear along the top row of books (sending books flying, in a cacophony of cat-insanity fueled chaos) and take a LUNGE for the adjacent and similiarly packed, 2.0m bookshelf. I could no longer (safely) watch and found myself rolling over (away from what I can only describe as a wave of books, trying its level best to close out on me) and getting pinged by the odd book from bookcase 1 as HUNDREDS of books turn my previously serene, quiet room in to some sort of bibliographic battlefield! Just as the noise from bookcase 1 (emptying its contents across the room, my bed, me and trying to KILL me with the bookcase itself) abates, the noise from bookcase 2 reaches its peak (it too emptying its contents over a surprisingly large area, before the bookcase itself crashed into a metal cabinet).
So like any sane person, I hunkered down, til all was quiet... only the galloping noise of a certain cat, beating a hasty retreat could heard.
Thus the relaxing day of Modelling, has been replaced with picking up probably a tonne of books, model kits, DVD's, CD's and fixing a book case... The place still looks like a bomb hit it. But regardless, I am determined to get at very least, the 0.5mm gap (at the rear of the lower engine covers) packed this evening/morning, after temporarily stacking the last of these DVD's and Books somewhere and reclaiming my bed!
Yes off-topic I know; but these are the trials and tribulations of your fellow modeller! Spare him a thought as you glance around your UNDESTROYED rooms and over your ORGANISED bookcases and CLEARED beds!
Dan