It’s time for the Pavleck.Com Weekend edition. A lot is going on and I’ll make you privy to it all!

First up, it’s that time once again - the St. Paul Art Crawl kicks off tonight at 6pm. I’ll be walking around my building checking out (and buying) some of the art the incredibly talented people in Twin Town can put together - will I see you there? I’m really hoping to!
See if you can find me or my work called “All my exes live on canvas” (A play on an old country song). It may or may not be there. The fun is figuring it out!

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It’s been a few days, and I apologize. Normally I steal some time away from work with which to write but time has been fairly short - not to mention, we’ve been taken things easy lately - beginning to wind down.

I may head to the Minnesota Music Festival today - it’s a mile away, well within walking distance. Not sure though, tickets are $30 a pop and there’s the 2 of us.

Today marks my month anniversary of not smoking. I’ve gained some weight - though I’m not sure if it’s because I’m eating more or because I no longer take the 5+ minute walk to the smoking area several times a day. It doesn’t matter, I’m taking care of it - need to exercise more, but the eating side is under control - a lot more water and a lot less soda. In fact, except for coffee I’m slowing down on the caffeine consumption as well.

I bought Mishka a couple dozen roses last week and a balloon. She’s spent a lot of money on me for my birthday, I can just tell, and I feel so guilty about it - no one ever really spends money on me, girlfriends included. So I had to ‘give something back’.

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It’s raining.

So I suppose tonight I’ll just stay home and watch Season 2 of Robot Chicken and play with some circuits.

Oh, and Mishka gave me an early birthday present - a professional waffle maker! I <3 her so!

Setup an Etsy store too - see if anyone will buy my stuff.

In about 2 hours I’ll be at the fair, and I’ll be there until about 7 tonight. If you’re out and about, feel free to stop by and say hi to me from 3 - 6pm in the Education building at the MNArtists.Org booth!

Pictures and more when I return, as usual!

And next week? Well that’s the Ren Fest. Not the one in Minnesota, we’re going to the larger one in Kenosha, WI. I’ll get to go back to a place I lived once, yay

It’s been almost a month now, and I have to admit - I love living in the city again. There’s something about being lulled to sleep by the sounds of civilization that can’t be beat. The low grumbling of a bus passing by, the light sound of laughter from the patrons outside the bar 5 floors down, the occasional rattle of a police or fire truck en route to save the day - it’s all very therapeutic. - especially the soft glow of the city lights coming in through the windows. And with the way these windows are constructed, if I don’t want any of that I simply need to close them - they’re built to completely isolate noise.

It’s also cool that we’re becoming regulars at the farmer’s market - this week we got a free melon from the melon people, since every week we’ve been buying a couple. I’ve always had this secret desire to be part of a family, that’s why I loved truck driving so much. Speaking of which, next February I think I might see if I can’t become an ice road trucker. I’ve been watching the series and researching it and all they really seem to care about is you’re a tad bit nuts, you have a CDL, and a little bit of experience. It’d be a 2 month stint up in Canada’s Northwest territories, and at the end of it all I’d come out with $30,000 or so plus being able to see I was one of the elite. We’ll see though.

Picked up my new desk last week as well - it was from the build-it-yourself desk section at Ikea and is a sexy beast awash in polished stainless steel - it fits the room perfectly! But now I’m trying to get rid of some older computers I don’t use anymore - no one seems to want them at work, so I’ll probably head off to eBay and sell them - I have some high-end parts that would do quite well.

By the way, where in the hell can I buy a Klein bottle - I’m obsessed with them now. Them, and retro/mod clocks. I need to put my small collection up. The

The Art Crawl is coming up soon, I’m working on something to rasterbate and throw up on the door to say ‘Hi’ to people, hopefully it turns out like I have planned

 So it’s now official, we’ve moved! We now live in the Rossmor, and even with a few boxes full of (my) stuff lying around, the place looks fabulous - I will upload pictures eventually when I get my office together.
That same night Mishka’s friend Dubya came to visit for the next several days. Well, Saturday she wanted to sing karaoke, so I find a place close by. We get there, it’s fairly dead, and I’m expected to sing as well - so I have some liquid courage in the form of a double gin & tonic. Then I have another, and another, and … well, lets just say I have a date with 2 guys at the Town House tonight, apparently. Yeah, I over did it. Big time. So much so, that only now at 3:30 in the afternoon is my hangover starting to abate. I was essentially carried the 5 blocks home by 2 very hot women, and ended up passing out on the floor.

Don’t worry, I apologized to Dubya, and I apologize once more - I’m terribly sorry! And I really am, I hate losing control. I was drinking to fast, and I hadn’t had anything to eat and they all sort of stacked up on top of each other all at once. Oh well, lesson learned - I will never drink again until the next time!

I’ll write up a more humorous story regarding this event later when my mind has fully healed!

Well, I had my first true night* on the new Sleep Number bed and wow, it was awesome. I was up the second the alarm went off, shower, then Mishka and I went downstairs to Key’s Cafe and had some omelets and then I got to work 45 minutes earlier then normal. I like living in the city
Pickup the U-Haul at 3pm or so, start loading, hopefully get it all loaded since there’s a 70% chance of rain tomorrow - pay the other places rent, get back to St. Paul, unload, unpack, live happily ever after.
Currently, I’m listening to Kimya Dawson and The Moldy Peaches, check em out - Anti-Folk and all. (Also listening to an older Eels and the newest Gogol Bordello)

*Note: This is actually the second night of the new bed, but the first night I didn’t sleep well at all due to the fact that the controller was under my head and during the course of my slumber I managed to hit it enough that my number went from 40 to 85 - so the bed was sorta rock hard by the time I got up heh.

Ha ha! I won it! I won the auction for a 1979 Gottlieb Buck Rogers pinball playfield! He gives it a 9.5 out of a 10 in regards to shape, just a few things missing but other then that it’s almost brand new - just needs a couple parts, some polish, and then it’s coffee table time! I’m hoping to do it a bit cleaner then the person who wrote the HOW-TO; my woodworking skills aren’t great at all, but I think I can pull off a few things to make this table more refined and include things like miter joints. I’ll also need to work on a proper circuit to supply power to it - I’m thinking of using one of the rechargeable 18 volt batteries used in my Ryobi system + an additional charger. I figure I can use a DC-DC step down to convert from 18V to the ~6.3V the lights need, plus what ever additional power is needed to compensate for resistance. I can gut the charger, connecting inline to the battery and that way it can just charge the battery, or charge the battery while powering the lights, or just power the lights. Not bad for a $40 investment, $20 for the charger, $20 for the battery. Plus, this battery is a standard Ryobi uses so I can count on them being available for quite some time. Anyway, I’m stoked! I’m also hoping (Though not real sure I will) that I also win this auction, which is for another pinball playfield - this time for a 1978 Bally Playboy machine. It’s not in perfect shape, but it’ll clean up real well. If I get good enough at this, maybe I’ll try to sell them. I figure at most $250 for the parts, and it should easily sell for $500+, call it art and I can go as high as $800 no sweat. And $250 would be the max, a lot of the playfields go for only $50 or so, it’s just a tight market suddenly.

Anyway, pics of the new Buck Rogers playfield after the jump.

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Here are some pictures of the new loft, it’s in the Rossmor, 500 North Robert Street. In the heart of downtown St. Paul! We’ve painted a lot of it, added some hardware to the walls to make organization better, but otherwise this is how it looks. After we’ve moved in, I’ll take some more pictures.

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So, sorry but there are no loft pictures today. I left my backpack with my camera at the new place last night, I’ll try to remember to grab it when I leave there tonight.
I’m so utterly sore it’s not even funny. I was looking forward to coming to work, nothing better then a nice relaxing 8 hour stint sitting down. Ah to do nothing! Well, no physical labor at least.

From Saturday at 10am until 9pm yesterday, if I wasn’t sleeping I was on my feet. Mishka painted the kitchen this delicious shade of orange - but I did the primer work, so I did help a tad bit. I attempted to install on vanity light in the bathroom, then returned it and picked up a better one that actually fit. I tried to hang a coat rack next to the door, where I learned a valuable lesson about modern construction techniques. Apparently the new place was built by using metal 2×4’s, then sheet metal, then drywall. Thusly, the holly wall anchors I tried to use, and promptly snapped in half when they hit the metal, don’t work. We need some special self-tapping sheetmetal screws, which we should have tonight. Using those screws, things went in great - without them, well, there’s a lot of spackle now being used. It’s all good, lesson learned, and all those things will be properly hung tonight.

I came home last night to an email telling me I was outbid on my playfield. Yes, the one I wanted really badly to create into a coffee table. No, I wasn’t around to counter-bid on it, as I was laboriously working on my dream. I emailed him, he had a bunch of playfields he placed on auction all at the same time, and I doubt all of them sold, so perhaps I can still get lucky.

Oh, and on Friday, the same day I said I was going to stop gaming and actually work on some projects, karma came up and bitch slapped me in the form of an email letting me know that I won a spot in the beta for Warhammer Online. I was pretty pleased at that, being it’s probably one of the most sought-after MMORPGs coming out soon, and everyone wants  to get a slot in the beta. But who did? Me, that’s who!

Till next time, which is later this hour, or later this week.