being my first day off of the week, i decided i should do something. but i slept in. about 10:30 i wake up. mad, because i wanted to get things done, but happy because i slept from about 11pm till then and appearantly didnt roll or toss or move once in my sleep. but i woke up to the familiar chirp of IM. sometimes im tired and lazy enough to leave my speakers on, and generally i dont hear it. today i slept through my alarm. but this woke me up. one message. one ding. and im glad it did. i got to talk to sarah, and she and i hadnt really spoken for quite a while. so after an hour and a half, i thought maybe the day would be ok. thats when i got the phone call about my visa card. that wasnt so good. i ended up mowing and trimming the yards. guh. then stopping at the shop to get my tire fixed. normally, id do this myself. but ive never had a roofing nail go through the deep portion of my tread, stay imbedded, and hardly leak. i wasnt certain, when i looked at it in the day light yesterday, that it had penetrated the inner piles... so i wasnt sure whether or not id have to use a liquid sealant and a tube patch, or just a patch. if i guessed wrong, say for a tube only [aka a plug], i wouldnt be able to seal through the air sealing piles, and it would be much too big a space for liquid sealant. so i broke down and took it in. 14 dollars later, they fixed it and i was back in business. while i waited for them to re assemble i ventured around the shop looking at various chemicals. and i spied a red bottle... called Mothers Back-To-Black. if anyone has seen the jeep, youve noticed the sun/uv fade thats greyed out my handles, rock guards and bumper trim. supposedly this bottle would change that. in the past ive run into shit that claims to work, but its either slimy armor-all wannabes that dont alter the color, or they are just dyes to match the color back. so i bought the bottle. and i have to say, im quite impressed. so much so, that i didnt even know that my rear bumper had a black stripe on it. that impressed. i washed it good with water, let it dry. then applied this stuff on it. and as soon as i put it on, i was in awe. seriously. if you have a car thats got some sun fade on vinyl, plastic, and misc non-metal trim... try this. i couldnt believe it. anyways, just rather bored and was quite excited about how well it detailed out the car. its noticeable.

my first run in with fraudulent credit card use came yesterday. no. I didnt do it. about 4pm, i received a call from visa. after the standard 39 questions to authenticate that i was myself, i was informed that someone was attempting to secure a purchase for 659 dollars on a website using my card. i was shocked. it wasnt that id ever protested that this would never happen to me. i guess, though, i never knew it would have been so easy for it to happen. other than that, visa couldnt tell me anything else. wouldnt mention if they knew who was using my card number, or what they were going to do about it. instead, they were closing out my account and reissuing me a new account. and im still somewhat in shock about it.

random thought.

you ever just read something on a webpage, and have it kill something inside of you? i guess its different for everyone... but stumbling across something on a webpages can just kill a mood. really fast. like if youd see a relative had died in an accident; or they were raising property tax 25% percent; or that your ex-wife remarried a son of a billionaire, who is half your age with twice your hair. something that just knocks the wind out of your proverbial sails. but it shouldnt. i dont know anymore. sometimes i guess i hold this image in my head. just a simple fantasy. thats, i guess, divergent from reality just enough to make me happy. not alot. im not a king, im not rich, im not famous. but its just something that i can close my eyes and go, "that would really make me happy now" and to flip around the web and find something that pokes a needle in the vein to burst it. sigh.

so some old crazy woman came in the store today. she had 3 plungers in her cart. while im helping someone, i look over and see her SNIFFING the plungers. first one, then the second, then the third. then the second again. then all of them. why i do not know. so i finish my sentence to a guy about a sump pump, and this crazy woman pushes her cart into me, gives me some derrnaged, "im out on bail and im fucking nuts!!!!" stare, and shrieks at me....

"how do you get the stink out?"

i blink.

"well how do you get the stink out of them?"

she goes back to putting the cup of the plunger an inch from her face, and starts furiously snorting. i laugh at her. the customer i was helping looks freightened. so i tell her she should wash it some scented soap once or twice.

"will that take the STINK OUT?!", as she rolls her eyes around and stops sniffing.

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what the hell is wrong with people.....