4/23/08

April 23, that date sounds significant. Why is that? It isn’t Hitler’s birthday, because that was Sunday the 20^th. Oh, I’ll bet I'm mentally combining mom’s March 23^rd birthday with my sister’s April 13^th birthday. Then again, it could be one of my sisters-in-law’s birthdays. I know Bruce’s is in July, Ted’s is in June, dad’s was February, Pat’s is in August, John’s and Gregg’s are both in December, and George’s is either the day before or after mine in November. So I guess it isn't a birthday I'm forgetting. Well, unless it one of the sisters-in-law. Oh well, it’s probably nothing. So, yesterday after work was totally dildos! I got a call from mom telling me the cleaning lady’s van was broken down in front of our house and that she, mom, would be chauffeuring her, the cleaning lady, around. The plan was to go pick up CL’s boyfriend at work, whose truck is also broken, and then loan them Mr. Wiggly. I shot that idea down pretty quickly. While I love Mr. Wiggly, he is a terrible pain in the ass to drive. In fact, it is my love for the thing that makes it drivable at all. I said I'd be more comfortable if they used Fifi, which of course was still in Granbury at my sister’s house. I got home to find them all sitting around talking. The problem is their van won’t shift into overdrive so it gets hot after prolonged highway use. We’re sure if they take it easy they can limp the thing back to Crowley. We decided to meet my sister and Fifi at the Sonic in Cresson where CL and CL’s BF would take off on 171 to Crowley. Mom and I figured my sister would bring Fifi to Cresson and we’d drive her back home. Well no, my brother-in-law, birthday in December as well, followed her in another car. Mom and I didn’t even have to make the trip. Oh well. We decide to eat dinner at the Cracker Barrel on I-20 and Winscott Road in Benbrook on the way home. The lemon pepper trout was tasty enough, I suppose, but it could have been better. Back at the house I fire up the internot and go to the Lamin-X website. I had checked their site on my Dingleberry while talking to John about the yellow headlight film for Darth Versa but couldn’t really find what I was looking for. I sent them an e-mail asking how much bulk film I'd need for a Nissan Versa and got a reply of, “Take a measurement of the light.” Well, on their site they list a kit for the Versa! Oh yeah, I ordered it. Hopefully it will arrive and John can install it this weekend. I'm stoked. Oh, while waiting at Sonic for my sister to show up, CL’s BF and I were looking at Darth Versa. He said, “You don’t see many of these around. What is it, a Peugeot?” I corrected him to it being a Renault. We discussed it some more and I said, “It is the same thing as a Nissan Versa but in Europe it is sold as a Renault Clio.” “Badge engineering,” he said. “How’d you get it over here?” “Well,” I said, “you got it right with ‘badge engineering.’ It is a Nissan Versa with Renault badges and different taillights.” He couldn’t believe it. So, I guess I did a good job transforming the car. Tee hee. I'm thinking that I might want to swap to some European wheels though. The Watanabes on there are way cool and all, and they do have those bitchin’ “Luke Skywalker’s ‘Red Five’ helmet insignia” center caps, but to be truly FDM I think something like an OZ or BBS might be a better choice. Then again, these are similar to Minilights which, if I'm not mistaken, were English. And they do look really bitchin’. And I already have them. Ok, you talked me into it. I'll continue to run the Wats. So this morning when I fired up my laptop, I forgot to turn off the wireless antenna. Of course it automatically hooked up to the “Guest” WAP, or whatever it is. As I was going through the machinations of turning it off, I noticed another wireless network available. It has good signal strength and is unsecured. I'm just not sure if I should try to hook up to it. It would probably turn out to be the CEO’s personal private wireless router. Then again, it could be that router in the Viewing Gallery which connects my touch screens to my AMX control system. I'm going to have Ryan take a look at it sometime and see what he thinks. Well, I think I'm going to shut down for a bit and maybe play some solitaire. I'll probably be back. Ok, so Ryan has had a look at the wireless hoozis I mentioned just now and it turns out I'd need the “name” or something in order to access it. So, I guess I'm still internot-less at work. It seems to be working out taking the laptop home at night and doing all my internotting there while watching TV so I guess it’s no big deal. It was nice to be able to look stuff up while “working” though. Oh well, what are you going to do? Kevin called earlier and said he’s bringing the kid by the shop tonight to look at Barbara. I mentioned that we were planning to go tomorrow night and load the Mustang up so we’d be ready to take it to the swap meet. He perked up when he realized that meant we were planning to sell it. He’s looking for a ’65 Mustang for his wife. I told him this one was really rough but he wasn’t deterred. I need to get him and Gregg together on that. He, Kevin, wants to know how much he, Gregg, wants for the car. I don’t remember so I didn’t tell him anything. Hopefully they can come to an agreement and we can drop the thing off at Kevin’s sometime soon. I can see what we like to call a “three way fuck you deal” happening where Kevin gets the car and pays me for it to offset the debt Gregg owes me for something else. [ Look at the bright side, for once you won't be on the receiving end of the fuck... ;^) - SM ] We’ll see. And on that note I think I'll call it a rant for the day.