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What's Next
2009-10-01 21:04:18
Got my car back last night with new struts, new springs, new brakes...and drove home dealing with a terrible vibrating shudder particularly noticeable at high rates of speed. So I send it back to my mechanic today, they do God knows what to my poor little Corolla for half a day, and I get a $13 bill for supposed tire balancing. I get in, drive it home and discover I'm still dealing with a terrible vibrating shudder particularly noticeable at high rates of speed.
Tomorrow I have to make a six-hour road trip down and back to Massachusetts dealing with a terrible vibrating shudder which is particularly noticeable at high rates of speed. I just don't see any good in any of this.
If I never make another journal post, it should be assumed that I died en route.
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What's Next
2009-09-30 19:16:15
My Web hosting provider, with whom I've been fighting bitterly since June over screw ups with my account, pulled the plug on my Web site. Right in the middle of my job search, which references my Web site, which is where my portfolio is located.
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What's Next
2009-09-30 12:37:42
My automechanic calls in the middle of installing the new springs in my car and says I need new struts. Now, he doesn't mention whether I actually need new springs if I need new struts, but the fact remains that I had new struts put in last spring. By him.
This is like the Real World version of the AMV Gods being out to get me.
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*sigh*
2009-09-29 21:51:12
This has been a very long couple of weeks/months/year. I've stopped asking "What could possibly happen NEXT?" because something always happens next.
This weekend, driving home from Massachusetts, 50 miles into the 200-mile journey, I decide to pull off the highway to get something to eat. Exit ramps are curvy, steep and generally require hearty braking efforts, which is why the screeching crunch of metal-on-metal felt all the way up my leg through the brake pedal was not a welcome sound. It's a measure of how much stress and general calamity in my life I'm dealing with already that this didn't bother me beyond a few exasperated "Oh this is just GREAT!" moments. There are people out there who would have pulled over and had a panic attack because of that sound, or at least called AAA, but no, I'm apparently way beyond letting trivial things like failing brakes give me pause.
My logical, fatalistic mind settled on continuing the drive home as my best option: it was all highway ('cept for the last four miles) and, with any luck, I wouldn't need my brakes at all. Rational and reasonable and really dumb, in hindsight. And yet, somehow I did get home in one piece and was even able to drive to work this morning, albeit using low gear as an alternate braking method. Turns out my brakes were totally dead...which begs the question of WHY my automechanic didn't see fit to advise me of this impending danger during my car's annual inspection or any of the other times I've said, "You know, my brakes make a funny sound and they don't feel right, can you check them?"
And then I discover that the springs in the back end of the car are shot, so I've got to get those fixed on Thursday. -_-
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The most expensive AMV ever made?
2009-09-23 18:56:36
My AMV-induced injury, amusingly caused by a video titled "Takeout," is now officially responsible for the fractured ankle I've just been diagnosed with. I get this news 11 months after the injury took place - further evidence of the astounding incompetence of my local medical center, which could easily have made this diagnosis way back when I limped into the ER...but no, they didn't take proper X-rays - and now have to pay for a $1,900+ MRI to evaluate the damage. This, on top of about $1,600 in physical therapy, $600 in chiropractic work and assorted pricey visits to various doctors. All because I sent my video to a con and wanted to see it in the competition. -_-
Despite all the upheaval going on in my life, I've somehow found time to vaguely worry about next year's Anime Boston competition today. I'd like to make a good video and enter it, but can I get my act together in time? I cannot afford to be editing when I'm in the middle of a massive job search, and my current AMV ideas lean towards the unnecessarily complex. I think I've taken enough of a break from editing that I actually kind of want to edit again.
I wish I was a better editor; then I'd be able to make everything I want to make.™
Hmm, I wonder what other glyphs are available in the journal? Lots, I suspect. ♦♣♠•◘○◙♂♀▬♥☺®© » There's some. Kinda small...
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