Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Today was a good post office day.
On December 10th, 2002, I wrote “my lego castle is almost done”. Today, I got the last piece to finish it. I had it shipped to me from Venezuela. When I made that post back in 12/02, I had just ordered the same piece from a fellow in Germany. It never arrived. I spend 3 months waiting and hoping that it would eventually show up, since I forgot to ask him to send it airmail, and it ended up going surface mail. Which, as far as I can tell, means that they strap it onto the back of a dolphin or something. But anyways, it’s finally done now. I have pictures of it here and here. It’s really the height of classic LEGO construction. It’s nearly 100% “basic” pieces, many used in amazingly inventive ways. I could discuss LEGO for pages and pages here, so I’ll stop.
I also got some new art! Not unlike the LEGO, I ordered this a long time ago — back in early Feb of 03. It takes them a while to frame it and everything, so I didn’t expect it to be here immediately, but 2 months is a little extreme. They claim it got lost in Denver or something, but I get the feeling that they just forgot to ship it. Luckily, once I pointed out that they had already charged my credit card over a month ago, and could I at least have a tracking number so I could see where my art was please, they “noticed” it and sent it next-day. Like everything else interesting in my life, I have pictures of it on my webpage. The new one is at the very bottom of that page.
I like your art. Very cool.
so what was the incredibly important and hard to find final piece of the castle?
If you look at http://www.finkel.org/avi/lego/375.jpg, just to camera right of the castle is a lego man sitting on a black horse. He is wearing a grey helmet with a red visor. There are 3 other lego men wearing grey helmets, and for some reason, I as able to find those very easily. But the 4th helmet — took forever.
can’t have a guy without a helmet