1/13/12

Oooh, Friday the 13^th! I'm so sca… crap, I just spilled my diet ‘Tard Fuel! Hang on, I need to clean this up. Ok, so Wednesday evening I get a text from the wife of an old college/high school friend “updating” me on Rob’s heart condition. What the fuck?!?!?!?! I didn’t even know Rob HAD a heart condition. Well, apparently he does. Some undetected, until now obviously, birth defect caused him to have a heart attack recently and I'm just hearing about it. Anyhoo, I get in touch with other folks who all know Rob to see what they know. Pat’s wife Nora works at the same company as Rob so had heard rumors and therefore Pat had a heads up about it already. I'm not sure how much Navajo knew beforehand but apparently Randy and Jana were in the dark like me. This kind of pissed me off. I was sitting there thinking, “Dude! What the fuck? Were you just going to drop dead without letting any of us know anything was wrong?” I was working up a good head of steam about it when I realized: wait, that’s exactly what I would have done. Since then I've been much more relaxed about it. When I told John about it, he asked if I, “Mr. Something’s Going to Kill Me Someday,” was finally feeling my mortality. I told him, “No, I always figured I'd be the first one of the group to drop dead. It is the realization of my FRIENDS’ mortality that freaked me out.” But that isn’t why I didn’t have a rant yesterday. I just didn’t get around to making one, so there. Ok, so I've been driving around with the Cold Air Intake in the trunk of Fiona. I was thinking “we” would install it tomorrow. Well, it doesn’t look like John is going to make it to the shop after all. Now, this isn’t such a bad thing, as it turns out. Since Sunday is the 15^th, I got paid today. Yep, I ordered the Korean fog light surround vent thingies. Hopefully they will arrive this week and “we” can install them when “we” install the CAI next Saturday. Oh sure, John invited me to come to his house tomorrow so “we” could install the CAI, but with the vents “on their way” we might as well wait and do it all at once. Then again, I might get a wild hair tomorrow and install the damned CAI myself. I have been known to turn a wrench on my own car from time to time. We’ll see. No, if I even go to the shop tomorrow, I'll probably just install Lil' Wiggly's dash. Of course I've already told mom I'm NOT going to the shop so even that might not happen. I think John and I might be making a road-trip out to Abilene on Sunday to see if there really is a B-310 out in some dude’s field in the “abandoned car position.” Apparently some friend of John's cruises a certain byway all the time and sees this car there. Neither of them knows anything about the car, the owner, or anything. We’re going to go chase that wild goose… apparently. I asked if we were taking the trailer but John said it might be more prudent to see if the thing a) exists and 2) is for sale before doing that. Not to mention, NOT having the trailer will keep him from making a stupid “knee-jerk” purchase. If he has a week or two to cipher and figger on it, it might not be the “great deal” it appears to be when a way to drag it home is sitting right there. Besides, he knows he can NOT count on me as a wingman for something like this. I don’t think I'm able to talk him out of buying a project car. John, have I ever successfully talked you down from one of those ledges? No, I think I'm more of a bad influence when it comes to buying toys. I'll bet if Samantha ever found out how bad I am at stopping him from buying cars, she wouldn’t let us go tilting at windmills like this. Well, it is now 1545 h. I think I'm going to call it a week.