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[camwyn]

I finally got a decent digital camera, so for those of you who want to know what my apartment looks like, here it is.

Swordage! Just inside my apartment door. My dad originally made the rack for me to hang my bows from, but really, I think it works much better this way. Don't you?

Living space When you've got a 500 square foot studio apartment, you gotta do what you can with your space. I sleep in the loft. The kitchen is through the doorway on the right. The telly is under the stairs to the loft, and the bathroom's behind all this lot.

Desk My desk and my bookshelf- there will be a second bookshelf shortly, once I paint the darn thing and get it assembled. I still have way too many books to be strictly healthy.

Bathroom Look, it's got a wooden ceiling! ... well, *I* like it that way...

Looking down from the loft That's my dining table on the left and my couch up against the wall. The detritus on the table is, er, my electronics stuff; I'm teaching myself electronics from a book and feel no need to clean up between sessions.

Comments

[quintus.livejournal.com]

That's a nice place. Beats the hell out of the tiny cell I lived in during my southern exile :-)

I take it you keep the bows up in the loft so you can push away the drawbridge and pepper burglars with arrows and boiling oil? :-)

[camwyn]

Alas, no. The loft has a fifty-one-inch floor-to-ceiling clearance; unless I cant the bows severely to one side, I haven't got any short enough to draw up there. I have to move around on my knees or crouch a lot when I'm in the loft.

My recurve bow is in the case to the right of the television in the 'living space' photo. I intend to hang that and the longbow collection high up on the walls- my ceiling is something like 13 feet up- just as soon as I get a proper ladder that I can use to climb that high.

[quintus.livejournal.com]

=noddle=
If I win the lottery, I promise I'll get you a chinese style crossbow or something :-)

[camwyn]

That would be lovely. The crossbows they sell at the NY Renfaire are nice but they're all Western and stuff. Just, um, don't tell anyone where you're sending it; in NJ you're not allowed to use a crossbow unless the arrow remains attached to the bow.

Yes, that restricts the use of the things to bowfishing, but enh.

[quintus.livejournal.com]

Well, you could make the line conductive... put some of that electronics study to good use. Nice induction coil arrangement.

I always wanted to build a Tesla coil one day, but everyone I've ever lived with has refused to permit it for some strange reason...