Layer Cakes

Busy weekend, went out birthday drinking on Friday and met a lot of ppl who I hadn't seen in a while... needless to say - we got very drunk and I don't clearly recall a lot of the evening. Saturday was a bit of a recovery day - polished all the remaining metal parts from the pinball machine, cleaned some plastics, and settled down in the evening with Layer Cake, a fast paced British gangster movie, which tops even Lock Stock, and Snatch. Sunday I set about one of the more daunting tasks of the pinball restoration, transferring all the old hardware from the old, dirty, broken plastic ramp I'd taken off the machine - to the shiny new one LJ had kindly carted back from the US for me.



Daunting not so much because of the individual tasks, but because of the cost of a fuck-up (pinball parts, esp. repro ramps, are expensive). Much grinding out of rivets, (de-)soldering, metal polishing - and then putting it all back together - I applied the decals and it looks good, don't you think?

So now all that's left to do is to clean up a few more of these parts...


And fix them back on here...


Much like a layer cake - the table is built up in parts, you can't just chuck the pieces on willy-nilly - thankfully I have tons of notes and copious close-up photos of each part.

Speaking of close-up, I was shown closeup photo's of Linsay Lohan's 'assets' today - in order to prove that there was scar tissue and they were not real. (Sunday night pub discussion...) Fake or not, I really enjoyed Herbie - Fully Loaded last evening. Went in not expecting much - but it was a thoroughly amusing romp, espeically for big kids who grew up with the classic Herbie series. Fairly predicatable plotline, plenty of Herbie-provoked slapstick, and probably the main attraction for most blokes, Lohan, who plays Maggie Peyton, the daughter of the now-failing Peyton race team. All in all, well worth a giggle on a lazy sunday afternoon.