Reading zen's journal

What's new with me...
it's 209pm, my time, and i slept in this morning. Since we didn't have class, i thought I'd make it a point to stay home, get high, and update my NAO journal. It's one of the few journal/blog things that I've started over the past few years, that I still maintain with any type of regularity.
And considering how little I'm spending over here lately, that's saying alot.

Hmmm...the biggest news all year and I never said anything to let you guys know my great and wonderful news: I got a new car. Actually it's a 97 Saab 900s convertable, with 132,000 on it now. Fire-engine red my boss calls it. That's probably the best descriptor.
It was ell, my stepmom's, car first. She got an '04 Saab 93, so she sold me this one. We worked-out a deal where I'm going to build her stone walls around her pond in exchange for the car.
At this point, I'm down to 145 hours left to pay off the car. Singly, this is the nicest car I've ever owned, and it's in incredible condition.
Not to mention I got it a year earlier than we had originally planned.
All of which is really cool.

The walls are going very nicely. I have pictures I'll post soon. It's funny, I don't show them to many people because I know that most people can't really tell what they're looking at when they see a stone wall under construction.
My friend cj, who does construction-based stuff, can decypher the heiroglyphics of stone wall construction. So we talk about the project and he gives suggestions, as friends are wont to do.
However, for the average person, say rich my ex-/roommate, who doesn't do that kind of work for a living, or for fun for that matter, and it's much different. His eyes glaze over. I consider him to be the average.
In all fairness, since he does know ell, has been to Christmas Dinner ther for the past 6 years, he knows the property. Since he's acquainted with the area I'm working, it's interesting to him to see how it's progressing. He's following along from an interested parties' stance. Because this makes me happy, he's more willing to be receptive to "rock talk."

At work I got a new boss. She has experience with auto-related things. She's ASE certified for brakes. She's doing well, but it's always tough getting a new boss. Lots changes.

Which brings me to sign-off, as I have to get ready for work.
A day on-a day off this week. I love that, but of course I'm not getting paid. Well, my sanity is a large price to pay for the rent...

I'll bet that just took 5 years off my life--but GODDAMM if it wasn't worth every second

"rock talk."

Makes me think of when I get going on computer issues.

Man if I had a nickel for every time I've seen a pair of glazed over eyes when I go off on technology, why I could buy a plane ticket to Europe and run off with the NAO servers.

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