Storage

101910 – Banana slug! First real efforts to re-inventory the storage space since we spaced out in late September of last year. Bear with us while we update our lists. Also note that all 2-D media have been moved to the filing cabinet.)

070909 – Looking better in here, save for that blasted safe! We are beginning to go mad with anticipation and uncertainty-of-content. (Here’s and interesting thought, though… The front of the safe was charred from the nitroglycerin blast, except the front dial, which seems to have escaped any damage at all. It looks as pearly-new as if it just came out of the factory. We think that is weird.)

070309 – EGADS! This place is a wreck!! (But then again, I think I was looking forward to a good explosion. SEE Smally’s 07/03/09 post…) We’ve got a few folks with saws and hammers trying to repair the floor, and personally, I’m trying to reorganize our flotsam as delicately as I can. We’ll need help scrubbing the carbon from the walls, eventually…

062709 – As our inventory proceeds, we ask that any items deposited into storage be recorded on the parchment scroll near the ladder.

Here’s a short, running list of the supplies on Our Ship The Utica Flower:

For food (yum), see Kitchen.
For books, histograms, figures, labyrinthine pamphlets, and reports, see The Filing Cabinet.
For plants, including the seedlings we’ve brought from Pepperland, see Engine Room.

clipboards (3)
pink, orange and blue survey flags – pawned
supercomputers (Sam and Niko) –> (Moved to Communications Room.)
stockpile of dog food and biscuit
cigarettes (we can’t even count how many)
portraits of Ernst Hoffmann, framed in with gold and red velvet (2)
frog-dissolving solution (2000 1/4 L)

pruning shears (14 pair) (10 pairs pawned)
COLORFUL CRAYONS (several in the Burnt Orange color, I might add…)
brain coolant
20 cords of firewood
tin, platinum, zinc, tungsten, and antimony (ample supplies, all)
vaccum-driven chaos calculator (plugged into a dedicated solar circuit)
waterbottles and canteens
30×30 cm sheets of assorted animal stickers (3526) (many of these have been used, and rightly so, they are splendid.)
30×30 cm sheets of assorted vehicle stickers (744)
short-pencils
kevlar chainsaw chaps (3 pair, one of which is destroyed beyond functional use, but may still be salvageable for kevlar fibers)
chainsaws (3) [*note: not to be used without chaps!!]
calipers
screnches (a handy tool. one for every crew member. Emerson has welded a washer to the top of each so that they’re easy to keep on a belt loop or what have you…)
rope (4000 m in three standard thicknesses, mostly capable for riggings, but also suitable for climbing)
sail cloth
motor oil
patchwork quilts (12) – pawned
10x, 30x, 100x magnification loupes
mathematical construction kits (2) – pawned
[contains: compass, protractor, rulers, marking pen, black/gray/white crayons, magic wand.]
thick mist
abacus – pawned
an elephant teapot –> Moved to Recreation Room!
several bright electric lamps – pawned
microorganisms (labeled)
multiple reduction copy machine
bubble solution

laughter (canned)
dog barks (canned)
electron-tunneling microscope
tarps (5, now 3, with some being used to make hazmat freezer-suits)
5-gallon buckets (a dozen or so, with varying amounts of dirt on them)
extra bootlaces – pawned

(though we lack a compass, we do have) an astrolabe {!}
blue pants; green shirts
superglue
spray paint (red, black, greenish, metallic blue)
even more crayons
hot glue guns (4, one bigger than the others)
hammers (10 or so)
nails (in excess of 2000)
acrylic paint and powdered pigments in 9 colors:
‘fuchsia, maroon, navy, wheat, azure, ocher, chartreuse, cyan, hot pink, brown‘
clothespins
exact-o-knives
lots of cardboard in varying sizes
broken refrigerator (1)
erasers (gum, rubber – several each)
alchemy set – pawned

polka-dot ribbons
kerosene lamps (w/ kerosene)
extra ping pong balls – pawned
ping pong paddles (3 pair, in addition to those in the Rec Room)
lamp wicks
CD cases (many)
potting soil

{clay pots of many different sizes
rubber hose (10 odd meters worth)
garden hose (2, 15 meters long)
growing lamps} –> most of this stuff has been moved to the Engine Room.
{shower nozzles
sponges
biodegradable soap/shampoo
scrub brushes
scouring powder
mops (actually there are 16 of these, looks like somebody likes to keep tidy…)
mop buckets
brooms (only 7, one with a busted handle)
toilet paper
plungers (2)}–> and ALL of this stuff has been moved to the heads, 1 and 2, respectively.
tennis racket (singular)
shoe horns (3) – pawned
bricks (30 or 40) – pawned
small engines (hair dryer, lawn mower, toy car)
wiring equipment
[copper and silver wire, solder, soldering irons (2)]
voltmeter
deep sea fishing rods (3, all in pretty poor repair)
thinking cap (one, but really quite snappy)
computer speakers (our supercomputers have built-in speakers already, though…) – pawned

sewing machine (1)
spools of thread
needles and pins (a large box of assorted varieties and girths)
cheap watercolor paints (2 children’s sets w/ day-glo plastic paintbrushes)

a large roll of chicken wire
a plant press
a kiln [note: bulky.] – pawned

All five and The Atom Band and I have managed to lug this stupid safe (now charred) back into the disheveled Storage Area…

Anyone feel lucky about the combination?
Try your cunning hand at the safe.

three rabbit pelts – pawned
a lobster trap – pawned
a rubber pouch of dentist’s tools – pawned
a hole-punch – pawned
two sizeable mauls (both rusted and remarkably heavy)
a dusty and faded journal, extremely difficult to read
wire frog-bone model – pawned

an industrial laser! (WOW, were we excited when we found this! We managed to scribble/burn a cartoon figure on the planks of the ship with it, too…)
[ SPECIAL QUARTERMASTER’S NOTE: We also practically sliced off the arm-of-Scarytoes with this thing, so please take caution when using it. Or you could consider wearing a pair of saftey goggles. As a scientist, I know that safety goggles are actually just cool looking, so I wear mine most of the time anyway. Dog food.]

a hypnotist’s disc
pins for eating sweet corn with, fashioned in the shape of two minuscule ears

slow marmots (it is fun to catch them, but be careful for biting!) – pawned
a L.A. Clippers sweatband, somewhat crusty *missing
two athletic weights of different sizes, without supporting bar – pawned

a plastic screw-top jar of so-called ‘black night’ – pawned
springs, differing in length and compressibility

stapler – pawned
mousepads – pawned
sprocket – pawned
plenty of dust and DJ rat poo

Quartermaster’s Report, 06/27/09:

We have at our disposal a previously unequaled selection of instrumentation available to our disposal aboard The Mardi. There is also a large inventory of supportive technology to pursue recordings with vigor and skill. I will list some of the artifacts here. If you’ve got anything that you’d like to add, just holler.

THE INSTRUMENTS OF SOUND:
Sousaphone collection (two from 1914, one from 1978.)
Flugelhorns
Synthhorns – ‘Sax’ (1), ‘Trumpet’ (1)
Autoharp
Cymbalom
Harp
Hammered Dulcimer
Santoor
Rhodes
Grand Piano (lost at sea)
Wurlitzer
Sythesizers (an assortment, some MIDI based, some analog.)
Tin Whistles
Turkey call
Tin Cans
Coffee Cans
Guitars [Acoustic, Electric, 12-string, 9-string, 2-string, Fretless (back to six, here, folks), The Appraised ‘Shittar’]
Basses {Fretted, Fretless; in both 4-and-5 string varieties}

Oboe
Pipes
Saveloy
Big Bass
Flagolets
Transverse Flutes
Little Bassoon
Big Bassoon *In Bunkroom 6
Triple Bassoon
Little Black Cornets
Shrill White Cornets
Horns
Sackbuts
Trombones
Green Hunting-Horns
Fipple-Flutes
Bagpipes – pawned
Bombardons
Kettle-Drums
Snare Drum
Bass-Drum
Grand Organs

We also have a variety of percussive implements:
[Clackers, rattles, bells, jingle-bells, gourds, pots & pans, glasses (some filled with water), cowbell, gongs and other metallophones, party horns, cymbals, bicycle horns, car horns, washing machines, metronomes (some extremely circuit-bent), a fog horn, a vibroslap, claves, woodblock, frog calls, barking, hand claps, bottles breaking, drum machines and sequencers, chimes, tablas, bongos, djembe, an anvil, castanets – pawned, steel drum, 5-gallon buckets, metallic scraps, washboard, finger-cymbals, tom drums (assorted), seed pods, egyptian drums, kick drums, and triangle. We are also making a hexagon, heptagon, and nonagon to be used similarly to the triangle.]

An absolute mess of sticks – some classic drum sticks of different gauges, but also hard and soft mallets, and curved mallets for playing the egyptian drums, and soft beaters for the bass drums, timpani and gongs. We’ve got hard metallic wands for the metallophones, and a kick pedal that attaches to the kick drum. The anvil is struck with a hammer and the sequencers aren’t struck at all. (Especially not with the hammer.)

Hurdy Gurdy
Violins
Stroh-violins
Violas
Erhu
Sitar
Sarod
Cello
(don’t worry, we’ve already got the Big Bass covered…)
Banjo
Dulcimer
Hunter’s Harp
Mandolin
Bouzouki
Tenor guitar

Tuning forks (at 440 Hz, 1106.8 Hz, and 196 Hz.)
Theremins (optical and standard)

English Horn
Clarinets
Saxaphones (Baritone, Soprano, Tenor)
Trumpets
Bugs in jars
Piccolo

Musical combs
Musical saws
Conch shell *Magical artefact, gone
Euphonium
Baritone Horn
Moonshine Jugs
Jaw Harp
Kalimba
Lyres
Lutes
Ouds
Accordion AND Concertinas!

Melodica
Electric organs
Samplers
Ukelele

Oh, I’m absolutely forgetting my trusty recorder, The Neon-Nauseous Bolt of God!
Don’t even get me started on the electric instruments…