Nopurpose.org » weird stuff http://www.nopurpose.org/blog Caught In The Whirlwind Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:08:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Good Ol' St. Heater Nick http://www.nopurpose.org/blog/2009/03/26/good-ol-st-heater-nick/ http://www.nopurpose.org/blog/2009/03/26/good-ol-st-heater-nick/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:48:37 +0000 Jason http://derango.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/good-ol-st-heater-nick
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    Well today was the day we got the keys to the new apartment. We being my friends (Wassy and Jay) and myself. The order of the day was to head out there and move a very large mirror into the apartment and hang it up while there wasn't much stuff hanging around in the way. That and hang curtains.

    The mirror hanging went well, although it ended up being slightly off center due to the positioning of the studs in the wall. Ah well, it's up there and looks nice. The curtains were more troublesome. Getting everything up straight turned out to be a real pain. But when Jay dropped a screw and I was helping to look for it, saw something in the electric baseboard heater in the living room. I thought it was some sort of mouse for a second then I thought "Hey…is that…santa clause??"

    Well… it was.

    We have named him Heater Santa and we're going to be keeping him. Note the red arm. The rest of him is charred and blackened by being stuck in the heater. I had to pry him out of the heater because he was stuck on the heating coils inside. 
    You can't tell from these pictures, but Santa's gloves look like toasted marshmallows. And if you look closely, you can see that one of his legs is falling off. But the best part is on his back.
    Looks like Santa's been char broiled! Those are the indents made by the heater coils digging into his back.

    We're keeping him as the patron saint of the apartment. We have taken his discovery as an omen that this apartment is a good idea. I mean, we're people who enjoy random and how much more random can you get than a Santa in your heater? You never know exactly what you're going to find when you move into a new place.

    The biggest thing about tonight though was how much bigger the apartment was than I was thinking it was. We had so much more space to work with than I thought we did…I think things are going to end up being quite nice in there once we get all settled. I'm going to be moving some stuff over tomorrow evening but the big move comes in on Friday where we really move in.

    Going to be a busy couple days!

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