It's 3:30AM and I just got home. I can't recall the last time I stumbled home this late. A regular customer invited me over after I got off from work to check out a car he was selling. I thought it would be cool since I have pretty much zero human interaction outside of work so I grabbed a six pack and headed over. Wow. His wife whom I'd met on a few occasions turned out to be a porn star. Go figure. She had just got back from a convention and upon walking into their house I was greeted by a suitcase on the living room floor with dildos and dvds on top of it. There were wedding pictures on one wall and naked pictures of her on the other. It was an odd thing sipping beer with a guy with naked pics of his wife staring at me. But it was a pleasant evening. They were a super cool couple and he invited me or almost insisted I come back tomorrow on my day off of work to work on his customer's car. I will be paid of course...a fee that will net me in a few hours what I normally take home in a week. It was nice to have someone sorta looking out for me and urging me to do some side work for extra cash. Apparently he's willing to let me work out of his garage with his tools since I got rid of mine. Even if I just get stuck doing shit work on the side like brake jobs I can pull in some decent side money that easily rivals my regular pay so maybe for the first time since the hurricane I can sort've go back to a normal life. Anyway, it's probably too early to get excited but the thought of something more is definitely appealing. Well, I'm off to bed. TTFN!

Well, I FINALLY got off my lazy butt yesterday and yanked the battery out of the RX-7 and brought it to work with me and threw it on the charger. I put it back in the car today and after a little persistence she fired up. After giving the neighbors a smoke show for a few minutes she finally got into a smooth idle and seems to be A-OK. To make amends for my neglect I took out the bottle of Meguiar's Natural Shine (I LOVE THIS STUFF!) and detailed the interior. So hopefully she feels my love. 

in response to your "What is it?" entry here is a pic I took about a month ago in my bedroom of all places. I've seen a few mantis here and there during my life but almost always when I'd go camping. I can't recall ever seeing them around my home much less in it.



I was surprised my fish didn't go absolutely apeshit but he seemed to approach the mantis with curiosity. It would have probably been an altogether different meeting had the mantis fallen into the tank. Heh.

I spent the bulk of the morning continuing my backyard cleanup project. I pulled a couple of old fenceposts up until the blisters on my hands were hurting too much. Then I came back in to watch some streaming J-Dramas to relax and have lunch. But the internet was down...for HOURS. I was pretty miffed since I needed to get online to get address info to ship some stuff to people who won my Ebay auctions. Anyway, I took a nice long shower, shaved, laid down in bed half naked and took a short nap. After waking the net was still down and it was getting too late to make a post office run so I got dressed and went to the book store just to get out and kill some time. I wandered around forever and couldn't convince myself to buy anything other than the new issue of Juxtapoz. For poops and grins I was browsing the Murakami section even though I already have all of his books...or so I thought! There amongst the ones I already have on my bookshelf sat a brand spankin' new hardcover edition of  "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running". It is rather smallish and at $21 it's a bit steep for a book that size but hey, it's more Murakami for me! So I purchased it then stopped by the convenience store to grab some apples and a mango drink and now I'm going to plop down in the hammock and read while enjoying my snack before the sun runs away. And obviously the internet was back on when I got home. Yep. Chris is indeed a super happy boy. It takes so little to satisfy me.

I finally finished up Delightful Girl Choon-hyang the other day. It was a struggle. I was once again reminded of why I don't watch too many Korean dramas. You already know how it's going to end before you finish the first episode BUT you also know it's going to take like 18 episodes to arrive at that destination. This, of course, means a zillion plot twists based on huge misconceptions and confusion that could and would never occur in real life. Granted, I don't watch dramas to think about reality but when something is so insane you are constantly asking yourself if the people involved are mentally handicapped it kinda makes it harder to lose yourself in the show. Anyway, I didn't start this entry intending to rant about K-Dramas...

I went back to my beloved Japanese dramas. I haven't been watching anything new so I dug up an older one..Golden Bowl starring Takeshi Kaneshiro. I've never been disappointed in anything I've seen with him in it so I figured it was a safe bet. I'm about half way into the series now and I am totally crushing on his co-star. Her character is so adorable. The actress that plays her is like 17 years my senior but she's still a total knock-out. Anyway, it's been a good series so far...it is a drama but it comes off as a fairly light-hearted romantic comedy despite the fact it's largely centered around marital infidelity which is far from funny. I'll be sad to see Hitomi Kuroki go bye-bye from my tv screen when I finish the series. Isn't she a hottie?



Oh, on an unrelated note. There have been a few 'Engrish' posts lately. I couldn't help but laugh to myself when in one scene of the show they flash up to the monitor at the bowling alley and it says "8 Sprit". I had to wonder if they really thought it was spelled that way or if much in the way that Americans have used Ebonics that the Japanese have sort've accepted alternative spellings for words based on how they are pronounced rather than how they should be spelled in their language of origin. I mean after all, why spell it S-P-L-I-T if it's just going to be read or spoken as "sprit" anyway, right?