Living the dream.
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A thought ocurred to me in Holland, and it was a good time for random trails of thought and inspired tangents in the line of thinking, but the thought that most stuck out was that I actually am going to acheive one of my dreams.
There is a saying, by someone cynical, that there are 2 problems with living your dreams; one is that you don't get to do it, and the other is that you do.
I will meditate on this when I've acheived this little one, and see what I think of this particular philosophy 
I reckon its b*ll*cks of course, but then I would say that wouldn't I.
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Ever since watching Commando in the early 90's (parents generally had some semblance of a responsible attitude back then 
) I have wanted, lusted after, dreamed of, in fact, an armoury.
The insane coolness of walking into your own personal armoury, with row after row of weapons, guns, toys, wet dreams - whatever. It would just be soooo cool, yeah?
Course it would. And I will get it, I will actually have this dream within my grasp, I've got nearly enough content, and I can definitely have the displays and cabinets before the end of this year. There are possibilities I shall not even hint of that could make this almost infinitely cooler, so we'll just have to see how things go...
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This geeky obsession is not actually one I am afraid of admitting, either. Any honest child of the 80's knows, deep down in his or her soul, that they love those cheesy action movies and the moment when the hero wanders into his/her secret lair/base camp/infiltrated gun shop is one of those `wow cool!!` moments, and always will be.
The tooling up scene in Commando, after they break into the gun shop
Mr. Smith's shed and Mrs. Smith's cooker in Mr. & Mrs. Smith
The James Bond field offices, especially in the more recent films
.....and innumerable films from all periods of movie making and social cynicism have featured or alluded to the idea of a walk-in armoury, and as it is constantly featured in films I can only conclude that its a fantasy of most men, at the very least, and plenty of women too also realise the simple cool factor of a room full of guns and knives.
And I'm gonna have one! Its gonna be so cool.
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