Nick Postagulous
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Unsleeper
Monday night we went over to my parent's house. Nina had a great time, as she usually does. Mom shoveled food into her mouth until she was about to burst, then they got her into a 40 minute sustained giggle fit. Normally, I wouldn't mind, except that Nina doesn't seem to sleep well on Monday nights. It was my parents being on a cruise for two Mondays that actually clued me into this bigtime.
Alison thinks it's overstimulation. Maybe, but I couldn't sleep either and I, too, ate way too much food. We'll test Alison's theory this next Monday. I hope she's right as this next week will be really difficult on Nina since we have multiple Thanksgivings, some requireing 4 hr one way drives. But, it's more important to test Alison's theory first, since if she's wrong it won't be my fault.
How To Hit A 75 ft Concrete Pole
Earlier in the week, I got to see a Porsche Boxter who'd smacked into a 75 foot concrete pole. Amateur. Wednesday, a dumptruck hit one and took it out. Unfortunately, this was on the road we need to use to get going north on the Parkway from where I work. So, for most of the day, you had to go south quite a bit and do a U-turn. That U-turn was very popular and ended up backing up the Parkway. Bummer. Though I would have loved to have seen the actual wreck.
Karma
Whatever foul deeds Alison has been up to have caught up to her. Tuesday after work she came out to her car and had a flat tire. Her boss changed it, and Alison felt shame that she didn't know how to do such a simple procedure. Yeah, you = girl.
Not only that, but once her boss got the spare on, he had to give her a jumpstart.
Then, when Alison got home, I took her car out to get a new battery at Autozone. The car needed gas, but I couldn't turn the car off, but I also needed to check the pressure in the little spare. Only 20 lbs. I pumped it up to 55. I figure that's good. My car's takes 60, but Alison's tire said see the manual and the manual remained silent on the matter.
I got a new battery and Alison took the car by Wal-Mart where she, against my wishes, got a lifetime balancing last week and needed to take the car in there anyway since, well, they didn't balance one of the wheels. They patched the tire and it took one hour and 45 minutes. They must have forgotten to balance the tire, as it's still hoppy and there there no weight on the side of it. Sure, the cheap tire might have a slipped belt, but I'd think that would manifest itself at all speeds, not just at 30 and 60.
Spending Spree
I've been going crazy on a spending spree for Christmas stuff. I don't know who reads this, so I can't say what I got for my dad, Kelley, or my Mom, though I feel confident that Mom and Dad don't read this. Not big money, but big gifts was in the form of books for Brad today. I got him Dragonriders of Pern (3 book volume), Ender's Game, Day of the Triffids, The Elric Saga Part 1 (3 book volume), Eye of the World, Split Infinity/Blue Adept/Juxtaposition (individual books, seems the three in one I had as a teen and my mom obviously threw out is very rare now), and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 4025 pages for $40.23, yeah, the shipping ate me alive since some books were for around 20 cents.
Most notable spree would be the stuff I bought for myself. See, as of Tuesday, Amazon still hadn't shipped The Urbz to me. Not only that, but it wasn't even in the "Awaiting Shipment" classification that I can't cancel. I preordered this on October 19th. I cancelled it, saved myself $6 shipping, and went and bought it at Target. Along with my bi-weekly Amazon budget and a $10 bonus that Alison added to it, which I forgot the reason, I blew some cashola on Amazon again. I got Master Blaster (which I know nothing about), Gladiator: Something Something, the original Syphon Filter, T'ai Fu, that Charles Barkley political book (he's going to be our Governor someday), and Mark of Kri.
But, suffice it to say that my mom has her main gifts. Dad is almost taken care of. Kelley needs a little more. Brad is done, bigtime. We know what we're getting Christine. I emailed Jessica (now considered an adult, and I drew her name) asking what she'd like. Leeann is taking care of our Damian gift in exchange for us taking care of her Brad gift. And we just need to know what Grace and Mac would like. Oh, and Corey and Tiana. And Tom just wants another cool T-shirt. He was very pleased with his "Talk Nerdy to Me" shirt we got him.
