Recently, via direct correspondence, a couple of you posed the question: What are you doing these days? Since I spend a good deal of my working hours thinking about the scattered Norlosers as I wield my manual post hole digger, piercing the rocky soils of Central Texas under a burning sun, I decided to be uncharacteristically expository and post about myself:
Like my allonym, I am a harbinger of doom.
I am a Herald of Sprawl, Standard-bearer of the Faux chateau and various imperial clothiers, bane of NIMBYs, BANANAS, and CAVE people.
Can you guess what I do?





















Comments
pornstar?
Posted by: jebus4me | April 22, 2006 4:34 PM
I'm thinking along the same lines as Jebus. The word "sprawl." The violently sexual imagery that comes with making "holes" with your "digger." I'd say you've become a Gentleman of the Night*.
* Or, you know, landscaping. It's a fine line...
Posted by: Mr. Guapo | April 22, 2006 6:06 PM
A nicely-researched collection of acronyms. I'd only heard of a couple of them before. I'm the president of the local neighborhood association this year (a job which I was promised was mostly a matter of calling out who got to speak next at meetings but which has turned out to be a LOT more interesting[*] than that) and we have our share of CAVE men and women here in East Lawrence. More than our share, I might say.
My guesses from your post are at some odds with what I read in a related email, so now I'm just confused. What job includes both a manual post-hole digger (can't they/you rent an auger for a day instead?) and Microsoft Excel?
I was gonna say Construction Worker for some local developer, or perhaps for the city (one of the burbs) doing infrastructure stuff, but how does the computer work fit in? I'm stumped.
* - "interesting" as in "May you live in interesting times."
Posted by: Thinman | April 22, 2006 6:11 PM
only wussies rent an auger, i just bought a new one.
oh yeah.
Posted by: jebus4me | April 22, 2006 9:10 PM
a) I don't do landscaping, but I do my fair share of weeding.
b) The Leash has demanded a "point" for noting that the Faux Chateau reference is pandering to the spirit of aesthetic imperialism I so often decry. Touché.
c) Augers are dangerous: utility lines.
Posted by: garmr | April 23, 2006 10:45 AM
I say: tending a vegetable garden and building a deck onto your little slice of the surburban pie.
And, uh, decrying aesthetic imperialism.
Posted by: doubleohsoul | April 23, 2006 12:46 PM
re: c) That's why there are a bunch of colored flags stuck around the perimiter of our yard right now. Turns out there aren't any gas/power/phone/cable/water lines anywhere that really matter to me, which is nice to know. If we ever get around to fencing in our backyard, we'll have to be careful, but that won't happen for at least another year, I don't think.
Posted by: Thinman | April 23, 2006 4:29 PM
Doubleohsoul - the veggie garden is being tended, but we've no need of a post hole digger for it. However it might have come in handy when we planted, now that I think of it.
Dang.
However, the garden hasn't much to do with Garmr's current occupation. He's only Farmr Garmr in his off time.
Posted by: TheLeash | April 24, 2006 9:21 PM
You know, the suspense is killing me. Is he porn star or gigolo?
Posted by: Mr. Guapo | April 25, 2006 12:36 PM
Today I spent my morning taking measurements at a salon & spa for women-of-color and my afternoon running a computer-aided plastics router at the shop.
Yesterday morning I drove to South Austin with my trusty post hole digger because docters don't like to walk.
Posted by: garmr | April 25, 2006 6:49 PM
Today I spent my morning taking measurements at a salon & spa for women-of-color and my afternoon running a computer-aided plastics router at the shop.
Yesterday morning I drove to South Austin with my trusty post hole digger because docters don’t like to walk.
I am so confused.
Posted by: Mr. Guapo | May 1, 2006 10:10 AM
"Today I spent my morning taking measurements at a salon & spa for women-of-color..."
Garmr, you don't specify what measurements you were taking. If I didn't already know the answer to your riddle, I'd suspect you were measuring women of color. The conclusion that you may have followed a leisurely morning of measuring women of color with an afternoon running a computer-aided plastics router at the shop is befuddling.
One might wonder at the possible plastic creations you might be crafting in the shop with these alleged measurements...
Posted by: TheLeash | May 1, 2006 5:17 PM
Am I the only one still curious about what the job title is for the position that could pull together all these tasks?
Posted by: plantnerd | May 3, 2006 11:27 AM
No, you're not. When, oh, when will Farmer garmr speak?
Posted by: doubleohsoul | May 4, 2006 1:04 AM