Candy is a treat…
Nov 02…and should be eaten in moderation.
So says Hershey on the inside of a Payday bar (which I just ravenously consumed) wrapper. Which makes me think.. so many consumable products which require disclaimers, i.e. cigarettes, alcohol, and apparently candy. Just funny that in a world of chronic obesity and childhood diabetes, these things require warnings of moderation. You’d think modern man was a glutton with not enough to do during the day (or conversely, too much to do and unhealthy pocketable foods/products are easier to carry around).
So tomorrow is my birthday, and seems everyone else is more excited than I. it’s a busy week in terms of birthday, there is at least one that I know of on every day from the 1st to the 5th. I will be 23, but for some reason it feels very natural, in terms of remembering that’s my age when asked… When I turned 22, months later I was still saying “21.. uh no 22 I mean…”. But lately even before now, I was already accidentally saying “23″. Weird. Maybe saying 23 just sounds more respectable, I dunno. Everyone has off extra days this week for my or someone else’s birthday, except me – LOL, I guess I could just take the day off with no loss, but I’d rather not a) miss the hours and b) have my work pile up for monday. It’s not so bad, I have weekends off anyway.
So just another uneventful day I think, I may mow the back yard and start working on de-carpeting otto’s trunk (which will be replaced with rubber coating, not unlike Rhino-Lining). I’m at the stage in otto’s life where I want to get rid of as much unnecessary stuff while keeping it comfortable and rattle free, considering that most of the 240′s body panels are cavernous between the actual outer metal and inner frame (but largely innacessible) maybe I’ll fill those spaces with some insulation to make the cabin even more quiet and temperature stable, possibly for whenever I start integrating all the Peltier (thermo-electric) cooling appliances for electrically/liquid cooled seats and instead of a compressed R12 powered AC. This stripping, I think, isn’t really for weight reduction but mostly because being an older car, it naturally didn’t come with most of the plastic padding or cladding (panels) that new cars have – which first I thought ugly, but after doing so much work on the car, I appreciate the open spaces for running wires, and just generally because it’s open space – for saying that it’s such a long car, it definitely has the interior room to show for it, especially in the trunk (and considering that it is from bumper to bumper about 2 inches longer than a camaro, albeit slightly more narrow). Recent polls show that open space good.
Also during this time, I want to pull all the interior wiring running through the firewall, and clean it up, since I’ve added so many modern electrical devices to the cars features like automatic headlights remote start, thermally switched electric fan, amplifiers, speakers, custom made LED arrays where normal power hungry-heat creating bulbs would be, and hence a need to bypass the light-out sensor for the tail light circuit — all of this splicing and cutting has made a monster of butt and splice connected wires which is a very bad thing as the wiring is exposed to the elements and starts to age. So I’d like to pull all of these things, measure exact final wire lengths and run fresh clean wires for everything, integrated into the cars own wiring harness — I’m thinking . It should be fairly easy considering what I’ve done with the the 2000 Camaro’s harness in the past, I just have to buy the wire, and prepare to diagram the new installations.
I am soooooo ready to go home, I currently (for just this moment) have nothing to do at work, and I wish it were Friday. See, I enjoy working, but only when I actually have work to do. otherwise I feel like I am wasting time – time that I could be spending mowing the lawn or working on otto [oh my how boring I am haha] but it’s paid time that I spend doing nothing but answering phones, so who am I to complain?
I wonder what it is that makes me sincerely not want to have a birthday party. Like most people, they look forward to throwing a party and inviting a bunch of people for drinking and whatever else… it all just seems so pointless to me… I’d rather just go shopping or out to eat for a really big enjoyable meal – at least with shopping I have something that I can say “yep I got this on my 23rd birthday” not “yep… I got hungover for my 23rd birthday” I’m not knocking parties, I just personally don’t feel a need for one, not to sound antisocial at all, but I guess that’s just the type of person I am. Private and reserved.
Although, I do enjoy being an open book with those who care and whenever possible — unlike some people I’ve known… I mean… c’mon I know a little mystery is good but being 95% innaccessible is just detrimental to your own experience (and then they wonder why they have such a hard time finding ‘love’ and why no one cares). Open up a little, let the sun shine in – it is after all one of the most cleansing or catalysing things known to man! I guess some people just feel too vulnerable when they open up. In my experience, it’s true… when you think of it that way — in that case you will be always walking on eggshells to keep people separate rather than accepting a uniting of your friends or being the same true person with everyone you know and meet instead of a custom tailored personality for everyone. Or hiding all personal things altogether. If you think I’m talking about you, let down your ego… far too many people seem to have this problem. I guess that’s why the internet proliferated so well – you can be whoever as much or as little as you want to be, whenever you want. Unhealthy? only slightly. after all, socialization is socialization on any level, even if it’s not personal interaction. what’s unhealthy is your sitting posture as you sit socializing through keyboard and screen. and maybe if a fake online persona (if equipped) takes over your real one. or if you sit at your computer eating junk and soda as a glass of orange juice you had 3 days ago starts to grow a lump of white fuzz in it. BUT now I’m rambling.
Maybe I’ll get my tattoo with this paycheck…