Tuesday, August 28, 2007

A Ceramic Tile In The Making?

So I ended up not being out and about for quite as long as I’d anticipated, mostly because I couldn’t get my car inspected (more on that in a second), and I forgot to do one of the other things that I had on my agenda for today.
That I forgot the one thing isn’t really a big deal, as it’s not something that’s time-sensitive.
Rather than making an appointment to get my car inspected at the dealership I was going to go to this one place that does inspections Jiffy Lube style. No appointment necessary, just get in line…assuming the line isn’t too long. Today it was.
So, figuring that I’ll probably need to have them fix whatever problems will inevitably come up during the inspection, I figured I’d stop by the dealership to see if they had any openings, and of course they didn’t, so I have to go in tomorrow morning.
My car is very nearly paid off, so now is, of course, the time for it to develop major problems, though I do still have bumper to bumper warranty coverage for several months.
I had wanted to sleep in a bit this morning, especially since I’d had a hard time, for reasons that are beyond me, getting to sleep last night.
Of course, it was Lawn Care Tuesday, so that meant being awoken promptly at 8 AM by the lawnmower outside my window. Even if I’d held on and waited for that to finish to try to get back to sleep, there were still the remaining two events of the day: the grass trimmer and the leaf blower.
So I got up.
After being without proper Internet service for so long, getting it back felt rather like Christmas morning, but it didn’t take long for it feel like Christmas afternoon, with the thrills of anticipation and discovery gone, leaving behind a sort of disappointed lethargy.
After getting caught up with some of the more bandwidth-intensive sites that I haven’t been able to visit and downloading a couple of things, I was pretty much back to being bored with the Internet.
Still, my blood hatred of DirecPath has not waned. That I’m done with the Internet so quickly isn’t the point.
I was just watching that show How It’s Made a bit ago. They were showing how ceramic tiles are made. At one point in the process the mixture that eventually becomes the tiles was referred to as being “slightly damp and very lumpy.”
I said, “Huh. Just like me.”

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