The evolution of Buddy's cage

I've had Buddy since May 27 2007. Since then he has lived in 4 different 'cages', and he has just moved into his fifth! Heres what he's lived in:

When we first picked him up, he was in a small plastic container, about the size of a hamburger container. He was only in it until we got home. Then he upgraded to a small plastic fish tank about 10" wide by 7" deep and 8" tall. He stayed in that for a few days, until Amanda was able to grab a moth holder from the lab. It was about a 1' cube, covered in mesh with a velcro opening. It was a good sized cage for him, but only for a little while. I liked the width and depth of it, but it needed to be taller. Chameleons are arboreal, so they like to be up high.Ideally chameleon cages should be above eye level, and his 1' cube was below eye level. Amanda offered to build a new cage for him at the lab. We bought the materials, and she built his next cage. It was still 1' wide and 1' deep, but was 25" tall. This seemed to be a good size for him. It was tall enough that he could climb to the top to be above everything, but wasn't too big that he would get lost in it.

He's been in that cage since Jul of last year, so I decided it was time to upgrade him again. This time I decided to go really big, and use the 175 gallon Flexarium that I bought when I got him. This one is 30" wide by 30" deep by 4' tall. Upgrading his cage this time was harder than before. Because he was moving to such a large cage form such a small one, I needed to get alot more stuff for him. First thing I needed was a a tree for him. He has a plant already, but he needed something taller and bigger. He also needed some new vines, fake leaves, and I decided to get some substrate for the bottom of the new cage, and a water dripping system. I of course didn't realize that I needed this stuff until after I had set up the cage, and put in all of the stuff from his old cage. So Amanda and I headed out to Wal-Mart last night to see what we could pick up. We looked at the plants, but they didn't have any good trees, but we picked up a nice little plant that hopefully will grow bigger. It's not the best, but it'll do until we can get something better. We then went to Petsmart to look for the rest of the stuff. We picked up some substrate, some vines, and we also got a parrot ladder (it's a good way for him to travel from the top to the bottom of his cage). I picked the rest of the stuff up today, and his new cage is fully set up (apart from a tree).

Here's what it looks like;

Crazy laundry lady

So I know it's been awhile since I've written anything (I'm working on an update post this week while off of work), but I just had to write about this!
So I'm on my week off of work, and I decided to do laundry today. So I head down to the laundry room in the basement, and as I suspected, Wednesdays are a good day to do laundry, there's only the first two machines being used. I head to the last set of machines, and use 5 of them. I head back down after the 26 minute wash cycle is complete expecting there to be no-one down there. To my surprise theres an old lady there, standing by the washing machines I'm using. She's just standing there, with a cart full of laundry. The machines I'm using are the only ones in use, so there were about 6 free machines at the front of the room, but she seems to be waiting for these machines. So I start taking the clothes out of the machine farthest from her and transferring them to the dryers. It felt like she was watching me the entire time. When I had emptied the first three machines, she moved over to the sink next to the first machine I was using and filled a spray bottle with water and got out a sponge. Then she just stayed at the sink and continued to watch me transfer clothes. When I had finished, and started loading the dryers with money, she moved to the last machine and started cleaning it out with the sponge and spray bottle. It was by far one of the most awkward times I've ever had doing laundry, and that includes the times I had to study people in laundromats for a sociology project in university! I've got about 15 minutes until I have to go back down there to get the laundry, and I hope that she's not there waiting for the dryers that I'm using!

==UPDATE==

So it turns out I underestimated the craziness of the crazy laundry lady, who I am now officially renaming the f#@*ing insane laundry lady! Apparently she can only use the last few machines in the laundry room, cause she waited for 35 minutes to use the machines that I was using, while there were 5 free machines! She had her washing machines open, and ready to go, but she was just standing there, watching me empty her precious dryers, waiting until I had closed the door on the last machine so she could start her drying. I wouldn't be surprised if half of her laundry was already dry from her waiting for her dryers to be free!! I guess I just don't understand some people.