:: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 ::

Well, here I sit, listening to the new Coldplay album named X & Y, after what has to be one of the most eventful summer days of my life. By the way, while I'm still thinking about it: This coldplay album is so-so so far. It sounds very generic and very Coldplay, and I was hoping for some sort of new direction or new sounds to trickle through. It's already growing on me on the second listen through, so I haven't given up hope yet. I still need my Husker Du to drown out Alex and his drum set during the day.

So anyways, Today. Today today today. My my. How about I just list everything that happened today and elaborate upon it. I think I remember the HTML for a list.

• Woke up, showered, and went to see Mr. Fred and everybody at his buisness to look for a job. It turns out I can't drive the dump truck due to insurance liabilities since I'm not 18 yet, but I will be helping out in the office. Phone answering, paper filing, bill paying, data entry, you know, office bitch stuff. But I'd much rather have fun being an office bitch than sit at home doing nothing. So yeah, I have a part-time job there several days a week which is awesome. I don't know pay or any type of schedule though. She was supposed to contact me back about that today but she didn't. Ah well.
  
  
• Came home, and left with mom to the DMV to get tags and registration for the Benz. Stopped at Burger King first (which was rather unsatisfactory). We arrive at the DMV only to discover much to our dismay that mom and dad both have to be present to transfer the deed over since both of their names are on it. Lovely. We stop in the vacuum store for a few minutes and browse before leaving.
  
  
• Since mom and I had some free time, we drove across the street to Crossroads Ford to take a peek at the new 2005 Mustangs. God they're hot. We stopped our car so we could get out and take a closer look. Mom turns to me and says, "James start your watch, no less than 30 seconds before somebody is out here." I smile and laugh. There wasn't a soul within sight, 100 yards of nothing but cars. Sure enough, after 35 seconds a guy walks out and starts talking with us about the mustang we were checking out. He was quite a nice fellow though for a car salesman; he had just retired from the army after 21 years (we thanked him) and was new at the job. Anyways, he asks if we'd like to look inside and my mother says sure. "well, would you like to crank her up, maybe let the top down?" "sure, why not." "wanna take her for a spin?" My mother smiles and says, "yeah, I think I would!" So we hop into a red 2005 Mustang tan-top convertible and go on our merry way. Those things ride so smooth and sexy. I want one really badly. I think mom and dad will trade in the escape when at least Tommy and I are off to college before they get one. They'll get a sports car though, since both love them so much.
  
  
• This is the real fun car stuff for the day. We come home so we can turn around an d take tommy to work, then head off to the bank, home depot/somewhere to look for furniture, and other errands. Tommy is driving us over to the garden center and gets into the left turn lane. We tell Tommy not to turn yet, he has a green light but not the right of way. He doesn't stop. We scream stop, and he doesn't stop. He freaks, and we get hit in the intersection by a black ford focus coming the other way. That's the second fucking time I've been in the seat of a car closest to where it was hit. Scared the shit out of me; it's the same setup that kassel died in, only in a little town intersection with two smaller cars. There isn't too much damage to the escape luckily; those plastic bumpers do their job well. The focus is kinda mashed up on the corner though. Tommy will take care of the $500 deductible cost and the cost of fixing the other person's car though, which is good. So yeah, car wreck. whew. Thank God nobody got hurt.
  
  
• I leave with the pontiac to Ace Hardware to have copies of my Benz key made. Much to my dismay, they don't copy my car model's keys! I did some online detective work and found out that I need to take the keys somewhere in Raleigh to get it done. Whoopee.
  
  
• Nathan comes over to help me test out my Atari 2600 I picked up in Wadesboro for $8. I should have haggled with the guy... I have no idea why I didn't. Anyways, we determine we need a little adapter and head over to radioshack at park place 16 for it. The fucking thing was $5.24!!! That's fucking ridiculous. The guy wasn't terribly helpful either. We stopped by Amante's pizza, but Maura wasn't working there (I think she's in Europe now!). We get home with the piece, only to find that our switch box is also a piece of shit and needs to be replaced. At least we got a (barely playable) signal. The box will be at least another $5, making the total cost spent on the fucker $18, which is ridiculous for a god damn old Atari that probably works. Blech. I'll find a cheapo box somewhere.
  

Am I forgetting anything? I hope not. I have a sort of headache. Last night was fun, just spending it with Megan. I can't talk with anybody else so relaxed like I can with her. Well, pretty much anybody (april hehe). She's a good listener. I think she's helped make me a better one myself. We watched the Miss Universe pageant. Canada won, but all the hot south american flavored girls gave her a run for her money. I love south american girls. but I digress.

My new gunbound download is almost finished, but I might go to sleep instead of play. I get to see megan tomorrow and set up everything with the Benz, then Nana thursday, then I dunno what friday, then the SAT on saturday! I don't know why I signed up to take it again. I don't think I'll do much better. I haven't really studied :/ I didn't know until today megan leaves saturday for New York and won't be back until in time for the pixies concert on the 12th. I will miss my megan...

OH SNAP I GOT MY PIXIES TICKETS IN THE MAIL TODAY HOT DAMN. Alright, g'night everyone.

:: Floydthebarber 5/31/2005 08:52:00 PM [+] ::
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