Last Post Of The Year

 

Not much time, as we're about to go out to dinner(early) so we beat the rush.

Will I do some sort of best-of? Maybe. I mean, only big standout for me this year was Deadpool Wolverine, which I feel like I've been waiting my whole life for but didn't know it.

Nothing big planned tonight--heck, I might even just come back home by myself after we go to dinner and the casino(the wife's mom's request). They're all gonna go back to the other house for the ball drop, but I couldn't care less about that.

Here's hoping they tell us what the deal is with all these mysterious drones.

This meme below is funny, but why the FUCK can't they spell check their shit? "watter"? Fucksake.

 

 

The End(Of The Year) is Nigh!

 

Year's almost over. In case you haven't been around me, or forgot, I fucking hate New Year's. Always have. If you asked me what was the best New Year's I ever had, I'd be hard pressed to name one.

We used to go out to this local club--the wife's dad would buy a table for us--there's be tons of people. An open bar, food, dancing. It was okay, but the DJ's frequently sucked. I think the last time I went, I drank too many Toasted Almond drinks...I honestly didn't realize there was a limit to how much milk you can drink at a time, and these things are like 50% milk.

So now the wife wants to know what we're doing. Wants to maybe out to an early dinner with her mom and our kid, and maybe a friend, then go to the casino for a little while.

I'm like, whatever. If you want to know what I WANT to do, it's stay home, watch some Twilight Zone episodes, maybe Night of The Comet, and do NOTHING. Wouldn't even watch the ball drop, cuz I've seen that over 40 times so I'm good.

Shot a video for the auction company yesterday. Dumped the footage and imported it all, fixed the audio file so it's ready to be edited.

Then today, I started editing. She always waits til the last fucking minute on these, and instead of keeping it short, this one's gonna be 90 minutes when it's fully edited. I got about half done today--took me nearly ten hours.

So this one's gonna cost 'em. I'll try to get a little done tomorrow when I'm done my actual job, then try to do the rest on New Year's Day. If not, then next weekend.

Not. Fun.

Badass Beholder below...

 

 

Blogger Getting Worse Again

 

 So did ya get that "This summary is not available. Please click here to view the post"?

Yeah, wtf? I went into the dashboard and see this, about my last post:

This post was put behind a warning for readers because it contains sensitive content as outlined in Blogger’s Community Guidelines.

 Like...huh? I read the post back--not sure what in there violated the guidelines. And that's certainly not the first post that had nudity on my blog--hell, the post previous to that one has nudity.

So let's see what happens here--no nudity pics.

Watched Kindergarten Cop with the fam tonight. Haven't seen it in probably 20 years. Still fun. Not amazing or anything, but fun. And seeing that a number of the kids are recognizable now--Miko anyone?--is pretty cool.

 

Weird Xmas

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Xmas Is Nigh

 

Soooo, Xmas Eve is here. I'm working, currently, but some stuff we need to work isn't working at the moment so I got a break.

How 'bout that Supes teaser? Thought it was pretty good. Will be the last piece of advertisement I watch for that flick, if I can help it, until I actually see the movie.

Watched one of my favorite Xmas movies last night--The Ref. Such a well-written flick, makes me laugh every time. 

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The holiday party was okay. Uber up cost me about $100, way back was only like $75, but totally worth it. Traffic sucked, and it was raining on Friday so driving in that mess with traffic would have been pretty bad.

They spared no expense at this party. There was about 650 of us, and the food was chicken, crab cakes, some sort of beef thing that everybody raved about. The liquor was open bar, and we're talking top shelf shit. Every vodka cranberry I ordered was Grey Goose, for fuck's sake.

Met quite a few people that I had only met in Zoom meetings before. The music was pretty good too, though there was no dancing for us--the wife's still limping along.

Hard to believe another year's about to be over. I get more and more tired of end-of-the-year stuff.

But hey, Merry fucking Xmas and all that...

 

 

 

Work Xmas Party Imminent

 

Got the work holiday party tomorrow. I'm only going because I didn't go the Halloween one, and it seems like I should toe the line, and they like people to be sociable and stuff. This way I can meet a lot of the people I work with that I didn't meet last year when I went to the office.

I'm gonna uber to VA, cuz I don't wanna take my new car through DC and into VA. The hotel is also one of those shitty hotels that bills ya like $30 for a car even if you're paying for one of their over-priced rooms, so I'll just put that saved $30 toward the uber.

Only thing on my list to do is NOT fuck up while I'm there. No talking about some of the idiots we've recently hired. No badmouthing some of the bad people we have there. Don't get me wrong--we have a TON of great people, but when I first was hired that's ALL we had.

Since we went on this hiring binge, we've gotten some of the chaff, all in the name of bulking up.

So I'm not gonna get too drunk, even though it's an open bar.

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Really gotta start the Xmas watching. Saw the new Joe Bob thing, which did Rare Exports(had never seen it--thought I had, but I'd seen the short that they did before this with the same name). Decent movie, especially for the budget.

The 2nd movie was It's A Wonderful Knife, which is garbage, so I just watched the JB parts.

Saw that new Carry On movie on Nflix that people are comparing to Die Hard. It's entertaining, but COME ON, it's not even close to Die Hard. Some of the stuff in Carry On is ludicrous, so it's a testament to how entertaining it is that you keep watching even as you're going "Yeah right."

 

 

 

 

 

Comps and Xmas

Had our new compensation meetings for work. For the first time I had to give letters and explanations to my employees--so I got to see other people's salaries and bonuses.

Was interesting, but not really a fan of that kind of stuff. 

BUT, was a fan of my comp meeting where they definitely showed I'm valued there. I got a huge bonus, like the kind of bonus Clark was waiting for at the end of Xmas vacation. Plus they upped my salary by over 10%.

I talked to my buddy, who's super high up in the company. He said the average raise from 3% this year, so my percentage was very high. Would have had to get approval from the top guy in our company.

So that's nice, that at least they appear to appreciate what I do there. 

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Got out last night to the weird Krampus thing they do at Zig's. Took the kid this time, and as expected, he had a good time. He loves live music of any kind. 

It was cold as shit though, I'll tell ya that. I dressed warm, but not warm enough for 30 degree weather.

We went to a diner afterward to get something to eat, and my kid's like "I think I'll try the super crabmeat pasta". I'm like, "How the fuck you picking the most expensive meal on the menu everywhere we go?"

But I got it for him, and he ate it all. Kid's the opposite of me, as far as pickiness in food. Which is weird, cuz autistic people are usually very picky about food. Not this one. (I got the lumberjack breakfast, which was real good...they even had crispy bacon, which is hard to get at diners...)

We went back to Zig's and watched the very subpar Silent Night 3. How the fuck do you mess up the killer Santa motif from your previous two films? Easy, just put an upside down salad bowl on your killer's head, and then don't put him in the costume.

Say what?

But the kid wanted a Xmas horror...I asked him what he thought, and he's almost always like "I liked it" or "it was good", but last night his reply was "ehhhh that was't scary".

I'm gonna try to get out and see if I can get a new suit today for this Xmas office party I'm going to at the end of the week. But if the store's super busy, I'll probably leave and try Monday, maybe it won't be so busy.

 

Torture Continues

 

 

So man, year's almost over again. The whole thing does get fairly monotonous, right?

 

I really could use a month off from this job. After the last stuff I posted about, I had more hardware problems after ANOTHER Windows update. How many of these do we fucking need to get a month? Two updates in four days seems a BIT FUCKING MUCH.

 

The wife tried driving--she can do it, but it's a bit painful. She's stubborn though, so she's gonna do it. She's gotten pretty cabin-fevered, and plus her mom wanted to get out so they all went grocery shopping yesterday.

 

Good news, cuz now I can get out of having to take her to physical therapy three times a week.

 

On the creative front, not much. I'm back to writing that Xmas script since 'Tis the Season. I wanna finish it this year. (and by year, I mean, in the next 3 months)

 

Trying to finalize the stuff I'll need to launch this crowdfunder for the T1/T2 blus, to see if I'm gonna have to print them or not. (if we get 100 people who preorder it, I'll do it. If not...I will abandon it and never speak of it again)

 

I should prolly do an intro video, and I even wrote one that was kind of cool and slightly clever, but then I realize that I don't wanna do all the work involved to create it. So maybe I'll just do a simple one.

 

T3...I dunno, man. I think more of me DOESN'T want to do it than does. Like, I know it will eventually make its money back if I do it. Will probably take a few years, given how distribution is now back to sucking again.

 

But the amount of work I'll have to do, and with how old I've gotten...my body just may not have it any more. I can put out a solid day's work, pushing myself, but the next day I'm down for the count. Do I really wanna try that?

 

Lot of me says NO.

 

The Malf wants to do a music video, the one we were talking about. Something that sounded fun when we first discussed it. But he all of a sudden has a crazy grand idea that not only would be impossible to do, I think it would lead to an inferior video.

 

So we're gonna try to meet for drinks this week and hash it out. I think once he hears me out, he'll realize it's a bad idea.

 

Hey, wanna see the scar on my wife's leg? Who doesn't love nasty scar pics?

 

And so I won't leave you with that, this made me laugh. In sort of a sad, why did they do that, kind of laugh.

 

 

No Idea

 

I blink and it's like two weeks since I updated this blog.

Sue me.

Ya know, Thanksgiving and all. Another small affair at the in-laws, but I had to do a lot more since the wife's barely mobile.

Did get out to see Gladiator 2. It's okay.

I will say that the worst part was that some tool bought seats RIGHT NEXT TO ME, not even a buffer seat. Keep in mind, there's ZERO other people in my row. There's ZERO people in the row right in front of us.

I went ahead and bought another seat so we'd have the buffer, but then I also took a bottle of water and dumped it on the seat closest to us. Immature? Sure.

Satisfying as fuck when this tool walked in during the trailers playing and sat down in the seat, and jumped right back up cuz his pants are now soaked. Get a fucking clue, loser. 

Work continues to burn me out. Not so much the job, but the insane amount of hoops they're constantly adding to jump through, all in the name of security. We now have 3 factor authentication coming...like, have you ever even heard of that? Me either.

They actually hit us with it last week and said it would start December 1st. Everybody was like "Woah, slow your roll--we have no idea whether this will work", and if it didn't then we're all not doing any work until they figure it out.

So they backed it out until the first of the year. But another update actually got my credential locked, so today I'm going to get my card unlocked. Super fun.

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Finished From season 3. Love the show, but they DO have to start really giving out some answers. They gave some in the final episode, but the answers were so hard to understand that I literally had to go to the internet to GET it...

But it really is the horror version of Lost.

 

 

 

Movie W The Kid, Interrupted

 

Spontaneous decision--noticed that the Fifth Element was showing at the movies for a special one night thing. One showing, but I had my choice of either theater. The theater closest to me was getting pretty packed, but the Columbia one was looking okay.

I bought tickets. Then the day of the showing(yesterday), I noticed the closer theater added another showing five minutes earlier than the packed one. Only 6 people had bought seats.

I kept an eye on it, and it didn't get much more full so I canceled my tickets at the other place and bought ones here.

Grabbed the kid(he's never seen it) and went. We get seated, and I check the seats sold--still looked good.

Five minutes before the movie's supposed to start, and white lights start flashing. Some recording says that an emergency has occurred in the building and to please evacuate. 

Super. We pick up our popcorns and sodas, and follow the crowds out of the movie. Everybody's standing in the mall right outside the doors. Firemen show up and check things out, don't seem to find anything.

After about 25 minutes, they let us all back in. They give us passes for the inconvenience, and then start our movies.

The flick opens with a new 5 minute introduction by Leonard Maltin. That ends, and then pops RIGHT BACK up and we have to watch it again. Fucksake.

Then the movie. My background--I've only ever seen this movie once. I didn't like it much, because it's actually pretty good and then Chris Tucker comes in and ruins the whole flick.

I figured I'd give it another chance. Been a while, and now I know that happens so maybe it won't bother me as much.

Well, I'm gonna stand on that. This movie would be WAAAAAY better if Chris Tucker had never been in this movie. He serves almost no purpose other than to annoy the shit out of you. The movie's about 15 minutes too long, and if you take him out you're gonna find this movie would flow a lot better.

Why are we spending valuable time on him going down on some random flight attendant? On following him around as he babbles on and on.

Otherwise, still a fairly entertaining movie up to that point. 

Up tonight--Gladiator 2 in ScreenX.

The wife is still in rough shape--they didn't give her a lot of pain meds, so sometimes she's in so much pain she's crying, and she doesn't cry much so it's gotta be pretty bad. Her knee is super swollen, but apparently that's expected for a couple of weeks.

Whenever I go to the movies, I set all her stuff up for her, and then when I'm back home, I always have a few things to do for her. Can basically only get out of the house for about 4 hours tops.

 

 

Knee Hell

 

Wife had knee-replacement surgery couple of days ago. Now both of our lives are nightmares.

She can't drive for 4-6 weeks. She can barely stand and limp around with a walker(which she has to do every hour or so to make sure it doesn't stiffen up).

I have to come up and recharge her compression pads and replace them on her legs when they're done. I also have to change the ice in her ice machine every 6-8 hours when it melts and stops cooling her leg.

She's got this crazy med schedule she has to stay on--has to keep it all written down so she doesn't forget when/if she took them. That won't let her sleep more than 4 hours at a time.

I also have to fix her food, lift her leg onto the couch(she can't lift it because they cut some muscle up toward the groin, so it's impossible for her to do by herself until it heals), keep the dogs off of her, take care of the dogs, go over to her mom's house whenever they need something.

Not fun.

Boy that whole "growing old will be so nice" shit they used to sell us was an outright lie, huh? I've always thought so, but now I'm sure; Heath Ledger had the right idea. Go out young and healthy and pretty.

Hey, lest you think this is a sexist blog where I only post Conan and barbarian men pics, here's some sexy lady fantasy pics--couple of cool Red Sonja ones too.

 

 

 

Everybody Okay Now? Conan Photo Dump Edition

 

Got all these Conan pics I've saved--some of them are pictures that were on the covers of Savage Sword of Conans that I used to read, and wanna pick up again.

Saw a movie called Conclave--was funny cuz it didn't look like an interesting flick but the critics and people were loving it, and I was bored. I showed the trailer to my kid, told him I was going to it. I expected him to say "I'll go,", cuz even if it's not his type of movie, he loves going to the movies and having popcorn and a soda.

But he surprised me. "I don't think I want to see that." 

So I went with my brother. It's a pretty interesting movie considering it's just about them picking a new pope when the current pope dies.

Then we saw Elevation, a movie that had to cost like 30 million and stars Anthony Mackie and Morena Baccarin. It's fun. Not great, but short and if you're looking for a lightweight monster movie in the Quiet Place vein, there ya go.  

(didn't hurt that we got to see it alone--nobody else in the auditorium)

Then last night I was bored and figured I'd go see Heretic, cuz I was hearing good things about that too. (but I'm always leery of A24 flicks, which is usually code for BORING and PRETENTIOUS)

And weird part, I mentioned I was going to the Malf and he said he'd go. Will the craziness never end?

Flick was pretty good, which is saying something cuz it's like 90% talk. I saw one idiot on the internet dismiss it as "Hugh mansplaining religion to two girls".

And I love how nowadays a man cannot explain anything without it, by defnition, becoming mansplaining. So ladies, make sure you don't ask how to do ANYTHING of a man, because we're gonna shake our head and say "Oh, I don't want to mansplain it to you."

Anyway, movie's pretty good. The ending's a little...hard to believe...but still, enjoyed it.

Hey, wanna laugh and waste an hour of your time? Here's someone who HATED my novella that I put out back in 2021. She hated it so bad that she made a 52 minutes video about it.

And I ain't even saying she's wrong on some stuff, but there's a TON of nitpicking at nothing. And when you get mad at someone for putting in pop culture references, kind of bad form to then point out that you use THE SAME EXACT POP CULTURE REFERENCES.

Not making it a link, cuz I don't want it to track back here, so copy/paste it into a new tab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pHX-iHYBGY

Makes me wanna write another book. (I mean, I'm writing two of them now lol)

 

 

So...That Happened.

 

I'm sure this isn't gonna make anybody happy who wanted the election to turn out different. Guess today's the day to piss people off even more.

Thing is, if you know me then you know I don't like the orange man either. He's a giant piece of shit, I think we can all agree.

Where we probably disagree is that I disliked his opponent even more. I dislike the entire DNC establishment to the max. Want to know some reasons why? I saw this retweeted on the twitter, and a lot of my feelings are reflected in there.

It's unbelievable that--after the first time the orange man won--that the DNC didn't stop and assess what happened. THEY were the ones who elevated him, all because they thought he was the only candidate Hillary could beat, and turns out no, she couldn't even beat him.

But instead they blamed everybody else. Hell, a lot of angry people did the same thing. If you didn't vote for her, you're a bad person! It was EVERYBODY'S duty to vote for the worst-candidate the democrats had ever put up.

Oh, also there was Russian collusion! (there wasn't)

The DNC should have taken a hard look in the mirror, and what they should have realized is that they need to put up a candidate that people WANT to vote for. Not a candidate that they manufacture fake enthusiasm for and pretend is a great candidate. They need an actual POPULAR candidate.

They didn't do that. And they lucked out with that Biden win last time, so I guess they thought--"Hey, we're good."

Then they continued to lie about his mental issues, saying he was super sharp and had no issues, and then we got to see they were lying once again.

What a lot of people don't understand is this: We lived through the orange man's first term. We had been told that there would be a civil war, that it would mean the end of so many freedoms. But none of that happened to us. I'm not saying some bad things didn't happen--like the immigrant kids in cages, but guess what--same thing happened under Biden, and to even larger numbers, and it's weird that we didn't hear shit about that from the media who harped on it when the orange man was doing it.

(and in case you're right now saying that's bullshit, here ya go:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/09/brandon-tatum/more-children-held-border-under-biden-trump-not-4-/

)

Add to that the fact that this administration has been sending tons of money and weapons to help murder many innocent people, children among them, and how thoroughly unlikable this candidate was--from her terrible cackling laugh to her fake accents to her inability to compose full sentences unless she had a hidden microphone in an earring--and nobody's rushing to the polls to vote for her.

I know...you might be getting mad right now. This is where you were at the first time. And YOU didn't stop to think about what YOU could do to help, you just fucking hated everybody who didn't vote your way, who didn't vote "to save democracy".

Well, start thinking now. Stop getting angry at everybody else, and start forcing your party to work for US, instead of attempting to put their own patsies into office every time.

It's not anyone's duty to vote for your candidate, regardless of your views on how bad a candidate is. Our democracy is in less danger from the orange man than it is from the two-party system currently being owned by special interests and lobbyists.

For the record, I voted for neither the orange man or the D candidate. In my state, the D always wins anyway so it wouldn't have mattered.

 

 

 

That Was Halloween

 

So Halloween is over. I'm at that point where the depression is coming. Super.

My wife set up a pumpkin carving station in our driveway, and sadly she and my son carved pumpkins last night. I think she's bummed cuz she remembers the pumpkin parties we used to have, where all the kids would come over and carve pumpkins and eat all the snacks my wife had made.

We had cool neighbors who would bring their kids over. Everybody was young. All of our parents were alive and healthy. 

Life just felt better in general, I think we're both feeling. 

Happy Halloween indeed, right?

Then tonight on Halloween, I went and picked up her mom and brought her over to hang out at our firepit and help hand out candy. My wife made meatballs for subs, made some cupcakes, and set out cheese/crackers and a vegetable tray. Other snacks she'd bought. 

It kind of looked like the pumpkin party setup. My brother in law and his wife and kid were supposed to come by, so it would at least be seven of us.

Trick or treaters were fairly sparse. A couple of big groups, but definitely seemed like fewer than normal. Also, it was like 80 degrees at nine o'clock. 

And then the wife's brother and family don't show up until like 9pm. Well after all the treaters were gone. He wasn't that hungry then either. They didn't really eat much. Hung out and chatted at the firepit for a while, then they left.

Me and the wife and kid sat down to watch a movie. I've added it to the list a couple of posts below. Then we watched another episode of Buffy. 

I took a day off tomorrow--I have so much PTO that I have to use it or lose it. They let us keep a ton of time--240 hours, and they buy them back at the end of the year down to 120. So at the end of the year I end up getting a huge check--basically a paycheck and a half plus my regular paycheck.

I'm about to go over the 240 when I get the 6.7 hours I get every two weeks, so I just took off tomorrow. I gotta shoot a video for the auction company on Saturday, so this was as good a time as any.

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Far as book stuff--the clowns book continues to slowly die. Some days not even selling one copy. It's nuts. At this point I think I'm about 13K in the hole on it. Ain't gonna break me, but certainly makes me reconsider the next book. And only reason I'm THERE is because I just made a deal for the Czech edition of the book. Not a ton of money but at this point everything counts.

The Halloween book, however, is still in the top 15 anthologies. Burning up the kindle read pages, which pays decent. We broke 500K in pages read a week or so ago.

It's gonna have to pick up the slack for the other book I guess.

 

 

 

 

Whew

 

That was scary for a while. I tried like five times to get the lenses out, was even trying to catch them with tissue paper. My eyes were hurting like shit.

Finally I literally put my eyes under running water to try to loosen them, then pried them out. It wasn't fun, but at least I got them out. Here we are two days later, and my eyes still hurt.

Anyway, here's a shot of the car--I was showing it my second home, the RF where I get my fake-but-better-than-actual-Slurpee Slurpees. 

I read through the manual a bit. Holy fuck are there a lot of buttons and display things. It's kind of overwhelming to someone like me who has always had real scaled-down, no-extra cars. Like, I think the rear-camera is just going to cause me to crash so I probably won't use it much.

Certainly won't turn into one of those douchers who backs into spots.

(little hint for you if you do that: YOU'RE BACKING IN, OR YOU'RE BACKING OUT...total time will still be the same. I've had arguments with dumbshits who are like "but it's easier to back into a parking space"...but they have no reason for why that would be because is it easier to back out into the wide open road behind your parking space, or back into a tiny spot between two vehicles?)

And the difference is this: If I'm trying to park near you, I gotta sit and watch you take your time backing into your parking spot before I can get past you. And also the number of people who can't get between the lines when they back in is also staggering, so we gotta deal with asshats who are parked over the line, or parked crooked--just stop)

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Know what I found out recently? I looked into the price of doing that T1/T2 blu ray set. Still expensive--I think I have to get 1000 to make it worthwhile. Considering I haven't sold out of the 900 limited FOC2 DVDs that I printed back in 2006, that's a tall order.

I mean, I'd give a 100 each to Dan and Mark, so basically I'd need to sell 800. 

So my intent is this--I'm putting together a kickstarter where you can preorder them. If we can get 100 people who preorder it, I'll do it. If we can't even get that many people, then clearly the interest isn't there and I'll just say fuck that shit.

I'm torn on the price though. I see assholes all the time putting dvds on their crowdfunding thing for like $50, and blu rays even more expensive. That's gouging like fuck. I don't want to do that.

But the thing I found out recently is that if you do get that many blus, they replicate instead of duplicate. That's where they make a glass master and stamp copies, instead of individually duplicating them. It's the better way.

Thing is, you can't just upload your ISO though, like you usually do. They need something in this format:
Masters for Blu-ray replication must be submitted in Cutting Master Format (BDCMF or Sony CMF)

Never heard of that. My software can't make it. They say they can somehow convert it if I get them a playable ISO, of course that's a $150 charge per disc. 

Anyway, I'm looking into it. I've started creating the kickstarter thing.

 

 

 

H'ween Weekend

Listen--I got a big problem right now, and if any of this makes sense then it's only because of my years and years of typing that's getting me through this.

See, thing is, I can't see within 5 feet of me right now. Let me explain.

We had plans to go out tonight. I had bought a squid games guard costume last year to wear this year, so finally tried it on. Fit well, it's a little hot but not too bad. Only thing is, if I wear my glasses underneath the mask, the mask bows out a bit.

So I had the sudden thought--I went to the eye doctors and got a temporary prescription--I couldn't actually get the lenses into my eye though, so I didn't go back in to get the full prescription.

Thing is, though, they gave me like 20 temporary lenses that don't expire until like 2026. I thought--let me see if I can get them in tonight.

Well, I did. Good times. All of a sudden I can see like a normal human, except my close-up vision is ZERO. I can't read my phone. Even if I hold it way out as far as I can, it's blurry. Makes ordering an uber pretty tough.

We hit the bar. It's okay. There's a band in the backside, and the usual country side on the other. The weird part is that we now take my kid, who is 21 years old.

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

He has a good time. They don't let me go in with my plastic pistol, which is bullshit. I could literally do more damage with my keys than the plastic gun, but they won't budge. And like I said, we uber'd so I can't put it back in the car.

I go outside and hide it in a stump around the back of the bar, and hope it's there afterward.

Afterward, I get lucky and it's still there--I sort of thought someone might have seen me put it there, and they'd go steal it. 

Then back home...and I can't get the fucking contacts out.

Granted...I haven't put contacts into my eyes in like 20 years. But I remember how to do it. I wore contacts for like 5 years regularly back in college.

But no matter how I try to pry these out, they're not popping out. I'm literally grabbing my eyeballs and they're not coming off.

I spent like 20 minutes trying and gave up. I'm not drunk---slightly buzzed, tops.  I dunked my face, eyes open, into the sink filled with water, but nothing happened.

So I can't see shit within like 5 feet. I can barely see what I'm typing--it's probably okay, because I can see when a word is red--meaning, I typed it wrong, so I just delete and retype it. But I put a read word that's just incorrect, I'm fucked.

I also was gonna post some pics from the night, but they're not uploading right. 

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Maybe I buried the lead. I also bought a new car yesterday. I'll go into that later. My eyes are hurting.

 

 

 

New Car Thoughts

 

You probably noticed, I'm posting more than one picture on each post. That's because the images I run across and save to the pic folder has been stacking up. Some of these Halloween pics, I've had since last year.

Gotta get 'em out there, make room for the new ones I'll inevitably find. Nobody minds extra pics, right?

Anyway, remember how I tried to get a new car a couple of months back but the carfax was showing all sorts of BS things that screwed up my trade-in value?

I got carfax to take them away--at least the ones regarding the oil changes that weren't mine, that made it look like the odometer was getting rolled back on my car.

The accident, however, stays. Even though the carfax when I bought this in 2017 says NO ACCIDENTS, they say they were made aware of the accident AFTER I bought it. This is an accident they say occurred in 2014.

The whole thing smacks of bullshit to me. They never replied to my question of--can you get me an archived carfax from 2017 so I can see if it matches the one the dealer gave me back then.

Sort of feels like they're protecting this big dealer. This big dealer that I'll never buy from again--it's Bob Bell in GB, if ya wanna know.

They also own the dealership next door where I was looking to buy a car, so I've had to branch out farther since they're not getting my money.

There's a special going on the cars I'm looking at--they claim the offer 2.99% financing for 60 months. But I've seen how when you show up at the dealer, there's a reason they can't give you that offer.

So I called  ahead and gave them my info and said, "See if I qualify." They ran some numbers and called me back, said yes I can get it. I then said, "You're sure? Because if I drive out there and you make some excuse for why I can't, we're going to have a big problem."

He's like no, no, you're good. So we'll see. That's one hurdle. The other hurdle will be if they offer me a fair price for my car. If they do, I'll buy the car. Be the first new car I've bought in like 25 years. (the Saturn that I burned in FOC2 was the last new car I bought)

So I have clean my car out, get the title and the keys, and tomorrow I'll go out there. I took off tomorrow from work because I thought I'd be going in to the office today--man, I was dreading it, but turns out my ride got sick and he's not going in, so I'm off the hook.

What a relief...we watched some movies last night since I didn't have to go to bed super early to get up super early to go into the office.