gateway
i didn’t do a thirteen yesterday because i was tapped for ideas.
round about 11pm my recent creativity block slinked back off into the shadows and i had a mental explosion. ideas ideas ideas.
i’m going to be making some things to sell on etsy.com and hopefully i will do well with that venture. i’ve been digging around on the internet for glass containers and today i have to go and find some transparency film. i just ran a test print on my seldom used inkjet to see what the ink situation is in there. hmm. trouble in ink land. i don’t know if you can use transparency film in a laser printer or not.
i’ve done the preliminary designing for my new WP theme. i’ve played around with pivot enough to know that it’s just not going to happen between us for another few years. i’ll wait for you, pivot, my love.
illustrator and i have been making friends. occasionally i want to punch the living daylights out of it, but mostly our time together has been amicable. using the tablet has helped.
i was supposed to have my car washed and waxed today. unfortunately i have one of those neat alarms that you can set for m-f and i forgot to turn the weekend alarm on. my. bad. they’re booked solid until monday because today is the first sunny day after some weird sleet/snow stuff that we’ve been getting. there was salt and crud everywhere and now it’s about 2 inches thick on my poor car. sad times.
speaking of car…i took it in to have it looked over on wednesday. i’m sitting in there for 2 hours and the woman who signed me in comes in and sits down and looks at me strangely. “Have you done any kind of performace modifications to your car’s computer?” while, admittedly, the thought had crossed my mind a time or two i hadn’t done it yet because i still have plenty of warranty left.
rewind to august 30, 2005. i was car shopping. found the cobalt ss non supercharged to be quite delightful, in my price range, and more than a little sexy. i went to the chevy dealer and asked them to get me one. no one had ever seen one, heard of one, and really didn’t believe me about it until i sat the floor manager down on one of their computers and showed it to him on the website. they found me one the next day, drove it down from north carolina, i picked it up on sept 1 2005, my birthday, and got rid of that cavernous piece of shit i was driving.
my car, without exaggeration, was one of the first cobalt ss non supercharged 2.4l 4bangers in the southeast. it also came with a computer full of programming no one had ever seen before. they had to flash the computer with the appropriate stuff. then they needed to turn my front rotors. then they needed to go to lunch. then they needed another 2 hours to turn my back rotors. all in all i spent about 5 hours there waiting on my car, not counting the 2 hours that my lovely mom rescued me, took me to starbucks and out for chinese.
i had all that work done with no out of pocket expense incurred. warranties are the shit.