It’s interesting how things fail just when it seems like nothing could go wrong. For example: If somebody decides that they want to pay you obscene amounts of money to perform a job that you would probably be performing in your spare time for free, that’s cool. It gets better when you find out that the breakroom has sodas for a mere twenty-five cents. It gets even better when you discover a fully-stocked tea cabinet in said breakroom. And then you hook up with a hot girl, and you’re thinking to yourself, “Can life get any better?”
That’s when your radiator blows up and leaves you standing there covered in antifreeze, wondering what happened, while you miss work for at least two days since you can’t drive your car because, shockingly, there’s no coolant in it, and dammit you knew you should have set up a way to get into your development box remotely because now you’re stuck at home and you could be working, but you aren’t because you didn’t think ahead. Then the chica leaves for two weeks, leaving you listless, restless, and bored. Not that life is going to end, but you’d rather stab yourself in the eye with a spoon than sit around waiting for a tow truck to come and take your car to the shop where they’re going to charge zillions of dollars to perform a simple fix all because they know what’s wrong and you don’t, haha! And while you’re sitting, pondering these things, it dawns on you that you only have 75 dollars to your name for the foreseeable future because your payroll paperwork for that obscene dollar amount hasn’t gone through yet.
Curse radiator drain plugs for not being a standard size. And curse you, Autozone, for telling me that the plug you sold me would work. I hate your brass, taper-threaded ass and all of your terrible commercials with the jingle that gets stuck in my head, I hope your marketing executives all fall off the face of the planet.
June 13th, 2005 at 8:35 pm
I’m glad you finally updated. I’m soo sorry babe, it will get better I promise… so who’s this hot girl :) she sounds fun…maybe i’ll get to meet her haha. Ok, back to cleaning… Have a better week.
June 14th, 2005 at 12:53 am
Eric… it’s like we’re on the same page here. Life couldn’t be better, then my water pump breaks, my serpentine belt comes off, and I lose power steering and an entire day that would have otherwise been for school work and fun. Not to mention the money it will cost to fix. I’ve been through radiator hell before and if you need help, you can call me… but I’m sure you have more immediate sources of help. Autozone… eh, when your in the pits, nobody looks good.
June 14th, 2005 at 1:04 am
Wait…woah…so much information in one post, my head is spinning.
Hot girl? Awesome! And what’s this babe stuff…you’re not a babe, you’re Eric =P
If it makes you feel any better, my car is still collecting water and forming lakes in the floor of the back seat, even after $800 was spent to fix the hole that it was supposedly coming from. Though expensive car costs never makes anyone feel better…besides those darn auto mechanics that are laughing all the way to the bank.
And at least you will soon have that obsene dollar amount, rather than being stuck with $75 for a while like many college kids. Nebraska may suck sometimes, but you’ve definitely been making bank by being there!
Now stop messing around, come back to Colorado (preferably when I’m actually there too), and bring this girl so that you can show her off!
Good day sir… I said good day!