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I’m not finished writing about REBOOT_, but I am also looking towards my next two projects.

One just jumped ahead of the other, which I’ve been pondering and working on since December. I still don’t know the shape it will take, but I found the means to make it happen.

An old dentist’s office right around the corner from me was recently reinvented as a (what is for Missoula) high rise condo. It has rusty tin on the outside of the building as a nod to the terrain vague style of architecture, which I really enjoy. I definitely have some critiques about the building, but that is not my point here.

I have seen, as I ride my bike past the site, the discarded tin rusting on the ground. Recently, that tin had been collected and placed into a trailer along with a variety of aluminum and steel to be hauled to the recycle. Tin is fetching $0.04/lb right now, so I wasn’t concerned when I began collecting it last night.

Apparently someone else was, and began yelling at me, asking if I had permission to take it etc. Said he was going to call the police. Whatever.

I put it back.

This morning, on my way into work, I stopped by the business of the person who owns the trailer and its contents. He said my timing was perfect, and that he was planning to haul everything away tomorrow. Gave me permission to pick through the tin and haul off what I wanted.

My bike trailer was destroyed yesterday when I was hit by a car (I’m fine), so I was trying to figure out how I was going to efficiently transport this very heavy rusted tin to my garage. I found an old wheeled suitcase and trucked it over to the site.

To my great joy, there was an old shopping cart in the trailer as well. It was missing both front wheels, but it would be much more efficient in hauling the tin back to my place.

The rest of the story is that I got a full shopping cart full of beautiful rusted tin for a project that has been brewing for years, though I didn’t know it.