T-Hybrid

Last night at work, a guy came through the drive-thru (yeah, I'm in fast food) and asked the manager about a car sitting in the lot. He was interested in buying it. Turns out it was mine. Now, I drive an '86 Acura. It's been through a lot, has about 96k worth of miles, and most likely won't survive much past me finishing college. Each time I turn the key I expect the engine to just fall out of the thing. It's that old. So naturally, I get a bit curious when somebody asks about buying it. I've never considered upgrading to something newer, but you know...opportunity knocks. So I get talking to him while he waits for his order. Turns out he races at the local track, and my car is the kind of thing he's looking for. I get a little interested, ask what kind of money we'd be talking. "Oh, it wouldn't be much. The idea is to buy junker's." ...My heart sank. My poor little baby, a junker. He could tell I was disappointed, but he was able to say a few words of encouragement. "Well, it gets great gas mileage. It's worth more than it used to be just for that alone." Yeah, I suppose it is. But still, did you have to call my car a junker? I mean, I work in the foods industry. I'm normally a nice guy, but is it always the right idea to put somebody in a foul mood who has control of you food for that first few minutes before it's handed off. Oh don't worry, I've never actually done anything like that. Just saying, respect your fast food employees. So the rest of the day passes without event, and we come to today. My sister was flying in to visit for the summer. Her flight was due in at 5, which was great. The Twins game started at 7, and with flamethrower Francisco Liriano on the mound, I was guaranteed to see a good game. Alas, it wouldn't be the case. Due to a "mechanical error," her flight was delayed a full 3 hours. We couldn't make it to the game. Well, needless to say I missed a historical outing. Now I have a new chance to get my hopes up. There hasn't been a Twin voted into the All-Star Game since Torii Hunter in...*forgets year*. You should remember the game. It ended in a tie, and resulted in the current "Winner gets home field" format that has drawn some controversy. Well, with Online Voting closing in a few days....I once again call upon Twins fans of BZP to support our team. Vote Mauer. Because he'd do the same for you...

Curses. You've found the one weakness in my plan. ...In retrospect, it wasn't really that good of a plan to begin with. In fact I'd probably rank it as one of my worst.

Well, today sorta became a big day for me. After getting a message from some friends of mine, I found that they were looking for apartments. This has been something I've been mulling over since I finished my third year of college, and decided it would be worth looking into. After a few days of talking with the parents, getting some things sorted out financially, I took a trip down to the campus to look over potential places to stay. The intent was to gather as much info as possible about what was available. Things sorta went quickly from there. Because it was "late" in the season, apartments were becoming scarce. One of the few available looked excellent, and with two of us unsure of where they would be living, and a third (me) preparred to make the move, we jumped. So now, effective August 1st, I'll be moving into my first "new place." .... Wow, I gotta take a moment. It's one of those big steps that you never really realize is going to happen eventually. But at this point in my life it's time to take the initiative to find to set out on my own. I'm fortunate enough to have a place that's affordable now, with enough jobs close to campus that I won't have problems finding income while I'm settling in. And I'm moving in with two people I've known since I started my college degree. What does this mean? I really don't know for sure. For starters, I'll definately be working a lot more, and hopefully at something closer to what I'm used to. Working in the food service industry for the past seven years (with a few breaks for a more normal desk job) have been nice, but I've got to get going in the field I've been studying for. The truth is, I'm nervous as heck. I know I'll be alright, but it's like that feeling you get when you first move into the dorms. Only now I'm pretty much on my own. ---------------------------------------- Vote Mauer: It's time for my sales pitch. Many of you I'm sure watch baseball, and I know a lot of you are life-long Minnesotaners. (Minnesotans?) Either or, as you know...the All-Star Game is fast approaching. And we as fans have only three days to cast our votes for the players we want to see start. Now, any good Minnesotan baseball fan should know that Twins catcher Joe Mauer has been on a tear as of late....taking the lead in batting average at a whopping .378. But that's not all. I'll let the numbers speak for themselves. Joe ranks almost consistantly better than his top four competitors for the All-Star starting posistion. So, my fellow Twins fans, do your part and cast your 25 online votes for Twins catch Joe Mauer. Because you know he'd do the same for you.

Don't expect too many days of back to back blogging, but I figured since I brought it up yesterday...I might as well shamelessly plug my own site some more. I've made a few topics about "Randomness Is Funny" in the Off Topic forum, and over the years the site has followed me around the web. Starting off piggybacking off my friend's Geocities account, then moving to his home server...it finally came to rest on the Campus server at Minnesota State. It wasn't until last year that I really got into the site, taking the time to practice my HTML, using the site as my guinea pig of sorts. It has since evolved in more than just a dump for the comics I do when I'm bored. It now contains my Photoshop dump, some of my favorite links, and a section devoted to the Twins (via a very nerdly constructed PR fanfic of sorts...humor me on this one k?) To anybody that has ever read RiF, it's all still there. The navigation has been spruced up with Javascript, Image mapping, and whatever else I decided I needed practice on. To those that haven't seen it before, feel free to drop in and take a look around. See what goes through my mind when I'm bored out of it.

I haven't been surfing BZP nearly as often as I used to, but when I saw the front page and heard this place had started supporting blogs, I figure why the heck not right? I've only started blogging recently, mostly because of the reason I gave in the title. I have a blog of sorts on my webpage, but that's not even close to Bionicle related (not that I know if this blog has to be anyway). So I decided, hey...it'd be cool. So now I've got my blog on BZP, and who knows how often it'll get updated. My life isn't particularily interesting. And even my own webpage gets a new Rant every month or so. So if you care, feel free to stop by...I can't promise a heck of a lot.