Long, long day
Oct. 1st, 2006 08:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hector_rashbaumWoke up at ten, after going to sleep at...fiveish. Little later. Whenever the "nighttime" part of Chrissy's nighttime sinus stuff kicked in and she got off. I was nice and awake, but...eh. Too early. Wrote a little, maybe five sentences before I lost the urge, but it's better than nothing. Tried to take a nap, couldn't, read some, couldn't get into it, decided to clean my keyboard.
Got all the keys off, soaked them in some hot soapy water, wiped down the keyboard.
When I was doing that the phone rang. I'd turned the volume all the way up for God only knows what reason, and it was right next to me, so I jumped.
And knocked a glass of iced tea onto my exposed keyboard.
Tried not to freak out, dumped the tea out, wiped it off as best as I could, set the keyboard upside down on a paper towel.
It was fucked. Tried it three or four times throughout the day, no dice. Figured it'd be better to go buy a new one tonight than keep beating a dead keyboard.
Of course, I decided this after missing the 4:30 bus downtown by about five minutes. The next bus was at 5:10, and the last Wal-Mart bus of the day left from downtown at 5:20.
Ugh.
Took my chances. We got stuck at every red light between here and downtown. Got to Kennedy Plaza just as the Wal-Mart bus was leaving. I tried to get the driver to let me on when she stopped at a red light, but she wouldn't. Grrrr.
So I went to the mall to take my chances at Radio Shack. One Mac compatible keyboard.
$79.
Awesome. Just fucking wonderful. Bought it. Maybe Dad'll pay me back for it, although it's more likely he'll tell me I should've just waited and ordered a cheaper one. At the very least, I'll get a comment about it being stupid to have a cup of tea near the keyboard when I had it all exposed to clean it.
Whee.
In Hector-logic, the best thing to do when you're mad about having to spend money is to...spend...more...money.... It makes no sense, but eh. Retail therapy <3
Went to Newbury Comics with the express intention of buying action figures. Because I haven't spent enough money on toys this weekend. I bought a Yao Ming from McFarlane on Friday, random corpses from McFarlane (yeah, they have random corpse action figures. Whee) yesterday, and today I got Jesus, William Shakespeare, and an Eddie T. Head that I've entertained the idea of buying every time I've gone into Newbury Comics for quite a while.
The cashier told me I had "varied tastes". That seems a little mild.
I almost bought a remote control Mach 5 (from Speed Racer) but...not today. I was thisclose to cringing at the price anyway. When I look at my bank statement and realize how much frigging money I've spent this weekend, I WILL cringe.
Speed Racer will have to wait.
Got out all my other action figures to set them up on the extra dresser. Eddie's taller than I thought - the Barbies I gave him for a harem only go up to his waist.
Currently, in action figure land, Eddie's harem is chillin', the Satan-demon-thing that came with him is petting one of the whores, and Bilbo Baggins is peeking up another whore's skirt.
Two wrestlers (Matt and Jeff Hardy, although for the purposes of not being TOO blasphemous we'll just pretend they aren't related)are having buttsex against the wall. Jesus is watching with a mix of shock and intrigue. William Shatner and Shakespeare are betting on whether he'll join or not (Shatner says he won't. YET.).
Four wrestlers are paying strip poker. Kurt Angle is losing, but HHH is only ahead of him by his kneepads. Hurricane is winning. RVD is stoned.
Shane McMahon is sitting in Daddy's lap, although I'm not sure why. He looks enraged. Vince looks complacent.
Abraham Lincoln is playing with puppies. One of them is in his hat.
Super moose is hanging out by his MooseMobile, ready to ride off at the first sign of danger.
If my camera batteries weren't dead, I'd take pictures. It's quite the scene. I'm not sure how I'll work in Yao and the corpses yet.
Got all the keys off, soaked them in some hot soapy water, wiped down the keyboard.
When I was doing that the phone rang. I'd turned the volume all the way up for God only knows what reason, and it was right next to me, so I jumped.
And knocked a glass of iced tea onto my exposed keyboard.
Tried not to freak out, dumped the tea out, wiped it off as best as I could, set the keyboard upside down on a paper towel.
It was fucked. Tried it three or four times throughout the day, no dice. Figured it'd be better to go buy a new one tonight than keep beating a dead keyboard.
Of course, I decided this after missing the 4:30 bus downtown by about five minutes. The next bus was at 5:10, and the last Wal-Mart bus of the day left from downtown at 5:20.
Ugh.
Took my chances. We got stuck at every red light between here and downtown. Got to Kennedy Plaza just as the Wal-Mart bus was leaving. I tried to get the driver to let me on when she stopped at a red light, but she wouldn't. Grrrr.
So I went to the mall to take my chances at Radio Shack. One Mac compatible keyboard.
$79.
Awesome. Just fucking wonderful. Bought it. Maybe Dad'll pay me back for it, although it's more likely he'll tell me I should've just waited and ordered a cheaper one. At the very least, I'll get a comment about it being stupid to have a cup of tea near the keyboard when I had it all exposed to clean it.
Whee.
In Hector-logic, the best thing to do when you're mad about having to spend money is to...spend...more...money.... It makes no sense, but eh. Retail therapy <3
Went to Newbury Comics with the express intention of buying action figures. Because I haven't spent enough money on toys this weekend. I bought a Yao Ming from McFarlane on Friday, random corpses from McFarlane (yeah, they have random corpse action figures. Whee) yesterday, and today I got Jesus, William Shakespeare, and an Eddie T. Head that I've entertained the idea of buying every time I've gone into Newbury Comics for quite a while.
The cashier told me I had "varied tastes". That seems a little mild.
I almost bought a remote control Mach 5 (from Speed Racer) but...not today. I was thisclose to cringing at the price anyway. When I look at my bank statement and realize how much frigging money I've spent this weekend, I WILL cringe.
Speed Racer will have to wait.
Got out all my other action figures to set them up on the extra dresser. Eddie's taller than I thought - the Barbies I gave him for a harem only go up to his waist.
Currently, in action figure land, Eddie's harem is chillin', the Satan-demon-thing that came with him is petting one of the whores, and Bilbo Baggins is peeking up another whore's skirt.
Two wrestlers (Matt and Jeff Hardy, although for the purposes of not being TOO blasphemous we'll just pretend they aren't related)are having buttsex against the wall. Jesus is watching with a mix of shock and intrigue. William Shatner and Shakespeare are betting on whether he'll join or not (Shatner says he won't. YET.).
Four wrestlers are paying strip poker. Kurt Angle is losing, but HHH is only ahead of him by his kneepads. Hurricane is winning. RVD is stoned.
Shane McMahon is sitting in Daddy's lap, although I'm not sure why. He looks enraged. Vince looks complacent.
Abraham Lincoln is playing with puppies. One of them is in his hat.
Super moose is hanging out by his MooseMobile, ready to ride off at the first sign of danger.
If my camera batteries weren't dead, I'd take pictures. It's quite the scene. I'm not sure how I'll work in Yao and the corpses yet.
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Date: 2006-10-02 01:51 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-10-02 01:54 am (UTC)Oooh... an Eddie action figure? Cool!
And, just for me, do something unspeakable to that Kurt Angle action figure, please? Nothing good like stripping or buttsex... ;)
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Date: 2006-10-02 02:06 am (UTC)He glares at me when I do that, though.
Hee. Not a Kurt fan?
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Date: 2006-10-02 02:35 am (UTC)And, no, no love for Kurt Angle. I'll tell you the whole story some day but suffice it to say I hold grudges.
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Date: 2006-10-02 03:55 am (UTC)Yes, I wanna see Eddie with his barbie harem. *snickers more*
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Date: 2006-10-02 02:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-02 01:21 pm (UTC)Hmm....perhaaaps...Yao should dress like Sportacus and a random corpse should have on some prominent-balls pants. Ooh. Or Yao could be Stephanie. and the rest of Lazytown could be the corpses.
I"m going to stop now, because it's ungodly early on a monday and I haven't had caffeine yet. Or cold medicine.
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Date: 2006-10-02 02:13 pm (UTC)Now I just wanna go see if they make Sportacus and Robbie action figures.
DAMN YOU XD
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Date: 2006-10-02 03:53 pm (UTC)XD!