Geeky Chic

While checking out some shop space, I had the chance to poke around a
warehouse inhabited by 5 salarymen-by-day / artists-by-night
types.  It was a former macaroni factory that definitely was not
up to code (for instance there was a”trick door” for drunks on the
second floor that opened up to a fall to the first floor), but it was
filled with everything that one’s heart wants to drag home off a curb
(but doesn’t for fear of clutter).  After taking an appraisal of
the wondrous junk, I told my tour guide, “You’re going to be a scary
old man when you grow up,” and I think that this is the best compliment
that I’ve handed out in a while.

The warehouse also had a small bedroom to let (on the cheap,
$250/month), with a built-in lofted bed and gigantic bed-sized desk
(and most importantly high-speed internet).  It’s the perfect
writer’s nest, so my imagination is swirling.

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Also, frugality rocks.  A classmate at my firm has announced her
departure.  Through living and eating at home with her father, she
managed to save enough money in her first 7 months here to start her
own bakery.  Her announcement email was the best reading material
that I’ve come across this week.

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