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Well, this has been a wonderful fracking day. Me and my roommate headed out so I could drop him off at the airport, and we got to about Yale and Lead, when the back end of the truck started to feel all wonky. I pulled into the parking lot of Tri-H Gas, and got out.
The tire is completely shot. Parts of the tread are missing. The worst part is that I know from the last time this happened to me, I ended up paying almost 200 bucks to replace the tire. At least this time, my truck isn’t sitting on the side of the freeway, with traffic wizzing by at half the speed of light (eighty miles an hour.)
It gets better of course.
My friend Josh shows up to take me to go get a tire. I get to discount tire, and they - of course - don’t have the tire I need. I already called Big O, and they were asking almost two hundred bucks for the tire. Not going to happen. So we left, and after stopping off at Sportsman’s Warehouse so Josh could buy their entire stock of .308 FMJ ammo, Josh dropped me off at the truck, while I called a tow company.
To top it all off, I was very late for work. At least my boss is a pretty understanding guy.
P.S. My motorcycle now charges, but it sat so long that I need to replace the air filters and clean out the carbs, maybe rebuild them. IT NEVER ENDS!
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iPod touch (ChronoTech) by arkannis
So I just bought an iPod touch to replace the classic I just sold. So far I’m pretty happy with it. The apps are fairly rediculous. Typing is a little hard with the chincy little keys but overall it’s not too shabby. It’s good enough to write this with.
The Wordpress app is particularly awesome. The lack of a delete key or the ability to copy & paste is a little annoying. That’s pretty easily overlooked just due to the fact that it is so easy to type up a blog and post from where ever you happen to have wireless.
That’s the one thing that would be better about having an iPhone instead. Because then you aren’t even tied to a wireless hotspot, which I have to admit would be pretty cool.
Of course, given how often I actually post to this blog, it probably doesn’t matter. Hopefully the coming fall semester should give more material to blog about.
UPDATED:
So now I’m writing this on my brand new iPhone. The 3G Internet more than makes up for the fact that I had to pay a $200.00 deposit to AT&T.
T-Mobile is of course being a pain in the ass as regards my old phone. They insist that I have a contract even though I never signed any such thing. To counter this I changed the credit card number to a Paypal generated one with a one time use, and then immediately canceled it. Assholes.
At any rate, I can’t even begin to describe how cool it is to walk down the street while listening to a Pandora station. It is quite literally, the bees knees.
I’m putting the touch for sale on eBay to recoup the costs. I’m also throwing in my old iPod dock, as the case I bought wouldn’t allow the phone to fit into it, even if I had the proper dock adapter, which I don’t.
I’m getting pretty fast at typing on this thing now. It’s pretty impressive what this thing will autocorrect from. You can hit completely the wrong keys and still get the right word. Kudos to Apple for that.
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The monsoon season in Albuquerque is here. That means, that while the rest of the country is busy boiling in it’s own skin, I’m currently drinking coffee outside of Satellite in nearly perfect comfort. It’s maybe 75 degrees out right now.
Unfortunately this brings with it the totally unpredictable rain that is one of the signature elements of life in ‘Burque. I’m perfectly comfortable right now, but it might be pouring rain in 20 minutes. Twenty minutes after that, it’ll have probably stopped.
Back in the day, these rainstorms use to mean that the entire valley would flood on a fairly regular basis. All of the main streets on the slope from the foothills to the Rio Grande would become minor rivers a couple of times a week. This was a bit annoying
These days, we have a fairly extensive network of concrete drainage ditches, locally referred to as arroyos. If you were to visit ‘Burque in the late spring, when it rarely rains, you would wonder why the hell we have them. If you were to visit during a rainstorm in the monsoon season, your confusion would be quickly abated as a wall of water slammed down an arroyo, typically with a greater water volume than the river usually has.
Some of the streets still flood, particularly Lomas Blvd. Every couple of years the local news gets to report on how someone in a Chevy Metro got swept down the street and drowned. The really frightening thing about the monsoon storms is that they can deliver the same amount of water in 20 minutes as a three day thunderstorm might in Seattle. If it ever rained for three days straight in Albuquerque, there might not be a city here anymore.
In the meantime, I’ll take my 75 to 80 degree July days and laugh while people boil in their own skins in Phoenix.
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(ChronoTech) by arkannis
Tom Morello is a bad-ass guitar player.
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