Nyrial

Actually, the blog isn’t nearly as interesting as the title, but I thought it was a good way to lure you in.

I’ve been brainstorming this week about things to put on the rest of this site, currently I have some wikis installed (Thanks to my wonderful sister) although they are still not working because I haven’t done anything with them. One is a wedding theme wiki (appropriate emails will be sent with info when it’s up and running) and the other is just a private one.

So right now I’m taking ideas for what to aim the rest of the site at. I was originally going to offer some kind of downloads for Poser, but I don’t have the time, skill, or ambition to work on it. I’m thinking it will just be to showcase the things I can do with photoshop and my 3d renders, and possibly drum up some work on the gaming front from it. Again, this requires time and motivation, neither of which I have, but I hope it will get better at some point.

I’m fighting a little bit of a cold, the bastards at work keep coming in sick, and I’m like, seriously, I’m going to have to call in sick so that I don’t get sick.

It’s been mostly an uneventful week otherwise, Dan was picked over for the job he wanted, so we’re both bummed about that, he’s been scouring the newspapers all week.

I’ve made some rather uninteresting observations about life out here.

For the most part, people are very laid back and mellow, and it seems to be rubbing off on me. I think it’s all the good west coast pot they must be smoking. Combine that with the ability to secure a latte/mocha/yoguccino, whenever they wish, people here seem very content.  I’ve witnessed NO road rage incidents (except my own, but even those seem to be petering out), and people are very courteous (to me anyway) on the road. I have a theory about this: People see my Michigan plates and they assume 3 things: A) I’m from Detroit, B) I have a gun, and C) I will shoot them if they piss me off.

I’m ok with that.

So we found a house we want to rent, and I had to fax application stuff over. The hotel “faxed” it, but apparently the lady didn’t receive it. Dammit. So off to Kinkos I went. I love Kinkos, they are there for me 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I faxed the application over, got the text message that she received it, and left, very happy. I got in my truck, turned the key, fired it up, took my foot off the accelerator… and it died.
So I lost it a little in front of all the Kinkos employees. AFter all,  I’m 2200 miles from all things familiar, I miss my kids, I don’t know any mechanics around here, I barely knew how to get back to the hotel, and I’m exhausted and sick.  They were kind and understanding though. I’m so happy my daddy still has AAA for me( I love you Dad!!!!), at least the tow was be free. Dan says it sounds like the fuel pump maybe, because it works fine as long as I have the accelerator pushed in, and all of the lights stay on without fading.  The guy at AAA said he thought it may be the battery charge because it sat so long in storage.

Either way, it doesn’t sound too expensive, so keep your fingers crossed.

On a better note, I think we may have gotten the house. I’ll post pictures of it tomorrow night if we do, it’s gorgeous. In the meantime, I’m going to drink very heavily.

Beer is fucking expensive as shit here, I’m so pissed about that too.  Not pissed enough to not drink it though.