My El Camino project is no more.
Well the landlord came by today with a saw to cut down limbs. Instead of getting me to move the car, he goes ahead and chops one down above the car and wouldn’t ya know it punches in the roof. 
Luckily I hadn’t done a ton of work to the car yet. But I sure was looking forward to the spring and diving into it. Even found a new transmission to put in, and I had fenders, a hood, doors and a new rear bumper all ready to put on.
My landlord is a good guy and mistakes happen. He’s gonna call his insurance company next week, but it’s without question totaled. Dunno how much I’ll get, but I guess I’ll put it towards another El Camino.
Just feeling blue about it all.
HOLY CRAP!
Alright, so you’ve seen our house, right? It’s nothing to brag about and it’s hardly big. It’s a SMALL house. Well just got our gas bill for December. $182! Holy cow! And that’s with the furnace set at 65 and turning it maybe to 70 when we had guests over. That’s just insane. I know the old house isn’t very well insulated, but c’mon! Guess we’re going back to our electric heaters!
How nerdy am I?
Well let me tell you. I’m playing Guild Wars last night winding down from the day. And I’m getting close to heading to bed, but I find out that there’s a Polar Bear minipet that you can get from one of the chests for the special Wintersday event they did for Christmas/New Years.
Aww…look at that cute little guy! I love the mini pets in this game, but this one was special. There’s only a couple known to exist out of the 4 million or so players, so prices were astronomical that these things were going for. One person offered a price of 1500 ecto…or about $100 REAL US Dollars based on the exchange rate in game currency is being sold for. That’s pretty crazy if you ask me! So I ended up staying up later than I anticipated, trying to get my hands on one of these polar bears to sell. No such luck as the odds are apparently those of winning the lottery.
Oh, it gets nerdier.
So this little guy caused such an uproar, that I’m just sitting in one of the towns trying to convince myself to go to bed before midnight. Then all of a sudden the Guild Wars “Community Relations Manager” comes online in the town I’m in, and starts asking if anybody has seen the polar bear because SHE hasn’t even seen it. The real nerdy part is I snapped a screenshot of my standing next to this video game “celebrity”.
I’m lame, I know. But at least I’m not obsessed with the game or anything. I mean I was in bed by 1:00!
01.2.08Well crap
I think I’m starting to get sick. I haven’t been sick in a long time and I was enjoying the hell out of it! But we spent the weekend at my Aunt Kathy’s and my little brother Jake was sick as a dog. I musta caught it.
I woke up about 4:00 am this morning with a killer stomach ache. I probably laid there for an hour until I could finally get some sleep. Then I wake up this morning and what do you know…the stomach ache is gone. Only to be superseded by a hellacious sore throat. WTF? Luckily after some cold milk and warm coffee it isn’t too bad now. But I dunno what’s next. Earaches?
Look for me on CNN!
I’m doing the New Years broadcast for the radio station tonight in Aggieville. It’s gonna be a cold mo-fo. Lots of people. Lots of confetti. If you see me I’ll be a little blip on the screen to the right of the main stage, shivering my ass off!
Hope everybody has a fun New Years Eve! Don’t get too crazy!
12.27.07Riddle me this:
How does a band get erased on Guitar Hero? I’d gone to all the trouble of completing a level on Guitar Hero and went back to step up a level and my band is gone! Is it a glitch or would it be someone erasing my shtuff?
Let’s face it, not quite a LARGE SCALE problem, but still kind of tics me off!
12.27.07Now that I got it, what do I use it for?
You know, I can vaguely remember thinking several times that I needed a printer hooked up to this computer. But, for the life of me I can’t remember what I wanted to print. Now I have one hooked up and can’t think of anything I need printed out!
The printer you picked up in nice. I tested it out on photo printing and it works great. I couldn’t for the life of me think of anything to use the regular printer for so I could test it out and see if it worked after I hooked it up to the computer. It works on it’s own, as a photo printer and a scanner/copier, but wanted to make sure the usb cable I got was right. I finally just went into the word processor program and wrote “Test” a few times to see if it’d print. It did. I can remember going onto the ign site and printing out game walkthroughs. Maybe I should try something like that.
Oh well, it works. I’m sure it’ll come back to me what all I needed this for. I’d just hate to think I have an expensive photo printer! (If that’s all I ever use it for!) Remember the dvd burn drive I SWORE I’d never need? I’m sure this is going to be the same and I will wonder how I lived without it in a month or so!
12.26.07Well we got Guitar Hero 3…
Here’s how:
We’re over at Andrea’s Sister’s house passing the time until everybody shows up. Andrea claims the wireless guitar is giving her fits, so we hook up the corded one. I finally get a turn and am thoroughly sucking it up, when across walks Andrea and catches the cord on the guitar. The PS2 goes flying, and the disc goes sailing out of the machine hell bent on destruction.
We get everything situated again, put the disc back, and all seems well and good. Until a couple songs start skipping. Uh oh! So she decided to buy them a new copy of the game and we took the scratched one! She’s so sweet! We got a disc scratch fixer. The scratch still looks pretty nasty, but it doesn’t seem to skip anymore.
So on top of that I got a closet organizer, Drinking Checkers (you play with shot glasses instead of checkers) and a microwave. If anybody needs a microwave let me know, we have two now!
12.25.07Merry Christmas!
We’re down here in Wichita at Andrea’s sister’s place to do Christmas with her family. Just wanted to wish everybody a Merry Christmas and hope everybody has a great day!
Am I allowed to put this on a resume?
Well, I piddle around in photoshop from time to time. Mostly just cropping things, or changing the color of of my car. Ha ha. Recently though the Oldsmobile website I visit was looking to come up with a sticker that members could slap on their car and show their allegiance to the forum. I figured what the hell and came up with a little something.
Everybody voted, and whadda ya know, my design won!
Not only that, the owner of the site asked me to try to turn it into a banner ad they could run to promote sponsorship on the site. Check it out, though you might have to refresh a couple times before it pops up in rotation.
I don’t get any money off the deal, which I never expected to anyway. I’m just goofing around and happy to lend some nerd help. Since there’s a lot of people who know a lot more about cars than me on there, I suppose this is the best way I can be useful on an automotive forum! Ha ha. Just kinda cool to see something I did have a widespread impact. People from the San Fransisco, North Carolina, and in between will be sticking these on their cars. Just kinda cool.