So I'm in the middle of a financial meltdown yesterday and I'm doing my damnedest to try to keep good spirits up and I decide that I'll run to the convenience store to grab the wife some chocolate, because she's fairly upset over the whole situation.
Drive to the store, purchase me goods, and walk back out to the car.
Click.
Clickclickclickclickclickclick.
It's not starting. I call my insurance provider, who seems blissfully unaware that my insurance expires in 3 hours because I can't pay my premium, and they send out the roadside assistance monkey, who dutifully tows my car to my local shop.
Cut to this morning, where my local mechanic informs me that the alternator is shot, and that repairs are going to cost $500.
Well, then.
So, just to recap: I've worked 50 hours this week, am stone broke, I have no vehicle, everyone around me is in a terrible mood, and I'm seriously wondering if it isn't time to fake my own death.
Yeah, I should have gone to Vegas.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Let's Try This Again
OK, welcome back.
Once upon a time, a dude had a fairly well-respected comic-book blog, called 2 Guys Buying Comics. Lots of stuff happened, interest waxed and waned, and then he stopped writing for it because other stuff came up.
A year passed, and the dude realized he missed writing a lot. Not only did he miss writing, he missed the ego-venting outlet that Blogspot provided for free. He missed devoting ridiculous amounts of time to formatting his opinions in the hopes that somebody would pay attention to one of his ridiculous screeds. But most of all, he missed communicating.
So the dude logged back on to Blogspot, fired it up, created a new blog, and made his first entry.
And now you're all caught up.
So yeah, I'm back, and this is gonna be a general purpose vehicle I use to talk about fun stuff, sad stuff, made-up stuff, real stuff, pop culture stuff, and the general ephemera of life. I'll throw in some serialized fiction too, if you're good.
It's not going to be a "targeted" blog, which means I'm probably looking at a grand total of 6 readers, most of whom will be the other 5 people on earth who understand the name of this blog.
Which would be cool, because that means one of the readers would be a rock star.
(See what I did there? I intentionally left something vague in order to spur interest. I am awesome.)
Once upon a time, a dude had a fairly well-respected comic-book blog, called 2 Guys Buying Comics. Lots of stuff happened, interest waxed and waned, and then he stopped writing for it because other stuff came up.
A year passed, and the dude realized he missed writing a lot. Not only did he miss writing, he missed the ego-venting outlet that Blogspot provided for free. He missed devoting ridiculous amounts of time to formatting his opinions in the hopes that somebody would pay attention to one of his ridiculous screeds. But most of all, he missed communicating.
So the dude logged back on to Blogspot, fired it up, created a new blog, and made his first entry.
And now you're all caught up.
So yeah, I'm back, and this is gonna be a general purpose vehicle I use to talk about fun stuff, sad stuff, made-up stuff, real stuff, pop culture stuff, and the general ephemera of life. I'll throw in some serialized fiction too, if you're good.
It's not going to be a "targeted" blog, which means I'm probably looking at a grand total of 6 readers, most of whom will be the other 5 people on earth who understand the name of this blog.
Which would be cool, because that means one of the readers would be a rock star.
(See what I did there? I intentionally left something vague in order to spur interest. I am awesome.)
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