For a while I've been meaning to throw down a traditional blog but I hemmed and hawed on it. I was trying to come up with something really introspective, something cunning, and just something that would be overall well received. Thus, I have been stumped, blocked, and all other words from posting something of substance for going on 7 months now. Today, I realized that 1) Fuck it. Just write. 2) See 1. And so that is what I am doing. And I am commentating on the fact that I am writing. I think I am getting dangerously close to being a hipster.
Today, I got a new car stereo. I know this may not sound like much but I just recently got my license back after some interactions with the law and driving whilst I shouldnt have. To complicate the no driving situation, my truck was repo'd around the same time that I got popped, as I couldn't afford the payments. Plus having it wouldnt do me any good, as I would be without a license for at least a year. So the overall thought process was let the truck get repo'd do my song and dance thru the court system, and when it was all said and done, get my life back together.
Getting said life back together started to become reality in February, when I was offered the chance to buy a car off of a friend at a reasonable rate. I picked it up, started to work my way towards getting a license, and eventually all was right in the world. Or at least it was mostly right.
The car stereo that was installed was a dramatic POS. It couldnt play burnt discs, it would skip quite often, and there was no jack for me to plug in my mp3 or phone, so I could stream in. It was absolute bupkiss. I quickly learned that the best way for you to hate a record that you love is to play it in something that skips. I'd be driving down the road, enjoying whatever CD may be in my car at the time, and then a skip would happen. Then another, and then another. There are very few things in this life that I get OCD about, but having music skip around is the absolute worst torture. Ever. Seriously.
Finally, last night I broke and said enough is enough. This paycheck has enough that I can splurge a bit, I have enough in my savings to cover a minor event, why not treat myself?
I rolled on over to Best buy and tried to get them to do something but got some interesting push back. The car install would take time, and it was too close to closing time for them to do it. Plus, they didnt have the parts in stock for the car to get installed so he suggested I go online and buy what I need then come back. I found this rather odd as I was a willing, ready and able customer wishing to part away with my hard earned dough and yet I was first being refused due to the fact that it was too close to closing time (8pm, they close at 9). Then on top of that, I was the one that needed to do some leg work to complete the process. This one kind of stood out, I can understand being out of parts but asking a customer to order and everything else? Maybe I am out of the loop on that but it kinda turned me off to the whole buying from Best Buy. Luckily the guy made a goof and suggested that they could get the parts from Car Toys.
30 minutes later, I am wrapped up at Car Toys with a new deck, some new front speakers, all the wiring and installs paid for. No issues, no problems. I did have to come back today to actually get it installed, as it was rather late, and I can accept that it takes anywhere from 45 to an hour and a half to install.
It all got wrapped up this morning and I am absolutely loving things right now. Granted, I shouldn't be so shallow to be enamored with a physical product, but after going for so long with no vehicle, to a vehicle with a shitty stereo, to now a vehicle with a decent sound system, I feel accomplished. It makes me feel proud of all the work I've put into getting myself back to an almost normal lifestyle after wrecking it with retarded decisions and a suffocating addiction to alcohol. I am just one step closer to being able to pull a F.Costanza and yell "I'm back, baby!!!"
And that makes me smile.
Today, I got a new car stereo. I know this may not sound like much but I just recently got my license back after some interactions with the law and driving whilst I shouldnt have. To complicate the no driving situation, my truck was repo'd around the same time that I got popped, as I couldn't afford the payments. Plus having it wouldnt do me any good, as I would be without a license for at least a year. So the overall thought process was let the truck get repo'd do my song and dance thru the court system, and when it was all said and done, get my life back together.
Getting said life back together started to become reality in February, when I was offered the chance to buy a car off of a friend at a reasonable rate. I picked it up, started to work my way towards getting a license, and eventually all was right in the world. Or at least it was mostly right.
The car stereo that was installed was a dramatic POS. It couldnt play burnt discs, it would skip quite often, and there was no jack for me to plug in my mp3 or phone, so I could stream in. It was absolute bupkiss. I quickly learned that the best way for you to hate a record that you love is to play it in something that skips. I'd be driving down the road, enjoying whatever CD may be in my car at the time, and then a skip would happen. Then another, and then another. There are very few things in this life that I get OCD about, but having music skip around is the absolute worst torture. Ever. Seriously.
Finally, last night I broke and said enough is enough. This paycheck has enough that I can splurge a bit, I have enough in my savings to cover a minor event, why not treat myself?
I rolled on over to Best buy and tried to get them to do something but got some interesting push back. The car install would take time, and it was too close to closing time for them to do it. Plus, they didnt have the parts in stock for the car to get installed so he suggested I go online and buy what I need then come back. I found this rather odd as I was a willing, ready and able customer wishing to part away with my hard earned dough and yet I was first being refused due to the fact that it was too close to closing time (8pm, they close at 9). Then on top of that, I was the one that needed to do some leg work to complete the process. This one kind of stood out, I can understand being out of parts but asking a customer to order and everything else? Maybe I am out of the loop on that but it kinda turned me off to the whole buying from Best Buy. Luckily the guy made a goof and suggested that they could get the parts from Car Toys.
30 minutes later, I am wrapped up at Car Toys with a new deck, some new front speakers, all the wiring and installs paid for. No issues, no problems. I did have to come back today to actually get it installed, as it was rather late, and I can accept that it takes anywhere from 45 to an hour and a half to install.
It all got wrapped up this morning and I am absolutely loving things right now. Granted, I shouldn't be so shallow to be enamored with a physical product, but after going for so long with no vehicle, to a vehicle with a shitty stereo, to now a vehicle with a decent sound system, I feel accomplished. It makes me feel proud of all the work I've put into getting myself back to an almost normal lifestyle after wrecking it with retarded decisions and a suffocating addiction to alcohol. I am just one step closer to being able to pull a F.Costanza and yell "I'm back, baby!!!"
And that makes me smile.
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