Honestly, it's like every third week I get something from by dealership about some "maintenance" they want to do only my car. Just got another one, only "249.95 with coupon". Oh, what a deal. What is it without a coupon? And what, exactly, do they think they need to do?

 

You know what killed my last car? Rust. Know what killed the car before that? Rust. Not skipping fakey "maintenance" the dealer makes up. The very oxygen I love to partake of that fuels my very existence got its tiny little teeth into the metal of my last two cars and ATE THEM UP. 

 

So you'll forgive me, silly dealer, if I skip yet another bizarre offer to give you the amount I pay per month for the machine. Maybe I'll put that money towards the amount I owe and pay it off one month faster? How would that be?

 

Business is pretty good, a rather late 12:00 start to the day today, I spent part of the morning working on the comic maker, an old project of mine, because I need to make cards soon and wondered if I could use the (incomplete) but newer tool to do so. It has a weird bug that has me stumped, I tell it to save by asking the CALayer to draw itself into a special graphics area that gets written to disk. But it doesn't seem to follow the layering I've given it, but rather the ordering in which I added the graphics. It should just give me exactly what I'm seeing on the screen. So that's a bummer. Got the bright idea of just taking a screenshot of the window if I can't fix it, so maybe that's what I'll do if I don't have a brainstorm.

 

Anyway the 12:00 was just a cleanout, nothing major. Then over to get a battery out of a UPS unit to order a new one. It of course has no model number on it, and apparently the lady couldn't find anything useful on the unit itself, so I'm going back to look. It's across from my parent's house, so I'll just go over on Friday before I see the aged one. Oh, who fell again, today. Don't worry, she's still alive. She's a tough old bird.

 

Then over to help someone else make christmas cards using programs written for 98. Running on Vista. You know card making programs aren't that expensive...

 

Back home, made the character sheets for my story so I could keep track of how much XP they earn "in game" and what skills they work on and how good they are at those skills. I forgot Dean had Spirit Overflow. Whoops. Oh well.

 

Back out at 6:00, someone just needed the wireless password, but couldn't articulate this over the phone so I had to go out there. I hate driving around at night, have I mentioned that at all recently? Good thing I got that power cord for the people just down the street, so I delivered that and got barked at by their tiny dog.

 

One thing I don't hate? The weather: keep it coming! I know, we'll probably pay for it later.

 

Tuesday I got a Mac straightened out, they had messed up their mail somehow, and moved them over to iCloud. Set up a new machine and finally used an ancient epson USB to Parallel adapter I've had forever. No really, I had that thing when the universe began, either 6000 or twenty billion years ago, give or take. Stupid dot matrix printer. Then at the last a cleanout.

 

More story work, I'm up to 36,000 words or so, and they are out of the "dark space" and the school is now dealing with the 100 or so kids time forgot now popping back into reality. Whoops.

 

Got a major gift in, so just one or two left to get now.

 

Ugh, late, watching too much Buffy. Poor girl, gave up everything to save the world, again, and leaves Sunnydale. Can't wait for season three, i.e. Monday. Of course I could take them back tomorrow and get the next disks… hummmmmmmm

 

Mom's present day in one week! She's looking forward to it, I know.