Yay, in case you didn't know from my last entry, I finished Painting One (for JJ_Roxors), Number Two (for GuitarsnGlasses), and Number Three (for Miss Koala) of the Four paintings I am trying to finish by...oh, I dunno, say Wednesday of this week?
I should NOT be on SG right now. I should be working on on the remaining beast, Number Four for Cineman, which frightens me because he wants it fucking huge for me (2 feet x 3 feet), and I'm intimidated by it. It's starting at me, being all massive. Someone help.
It didn't help that I was at work till 8:30 tonight, so I'm sorta burned out as soon as I get home, and sitting in a chair on the internet seems like such a more relaxing proposition.
**UPDATE: Holy Hell it's finally done. damn you giant painting. **
So, in other news, my brother has sublimonally convinced me to reconsider the worst fucking idea ever.
You might recall I am all concerned with cash because I took an expensive trip to SF in May and then had to fly to NY last week and am taking another trip this weekend to SF which proves to be 'spensive, and so I've been saving and doing as much extra scrounging (and painting) to try and get things sane again. So of course, my brother randomly suggested in the middle of it with no small amount of pressure that I take five days off on the SECOND week of July to drive a ridiculous road trip with him.
I want so badly to simply dismiss it as impossible, but part of me is holding onto the idea. First, he's stuck driving a pretty long trip one way from Detroit with his wife, whom he is dropping off in Denver (I don't know, it made sense when he told me). If I don't make any plans with him, he'll be doing that drive back by himself, which admittedly will suck a whole bunch.
His idea is that as long as he has a long drive, he could instead drive to meet me in LA and we could then drive Route 66 that whole week from LA to Detroit and I'd then fly back at the end of the weekend. This way he would have a relief driver, we'd get to take a scenic classic road trip and forge some kind of cliched memory we'd likely remember for a long long time, and I could learn to drive stick and drive his convertible new GT with him across a good part of America.
Thing is, Five days is a lot of time, even if there was a lot of notice and I hadn't just taken other trips. That's basically all my vacation left for the year, giving me less options for later in the year, and even with it being official vacation days, it's a stretch to get it OK'd.
There's an idea to try and find a compromise where maybe I can just take the mid-to-end of the week off and we can leave on Wed morning or Tue night, but that probably makes it necessary to make the drive so quickly that the point of the trip is lost. Alternatively, I could maybe fly and meet him somewhere, take a multi-day drive with him, and then fly back, but then the cost of the flights starts to get crazy on top of the ridiculousness of making all those arrangements and deciding if it is even worth it.
So, I think we left it with him crunching some numbers to see what does and doesn't make sense and what affects what with driving times, amount of time left for actually stopping and having fun, etc, and considering what might and might not make any individual plan worth it.
-I feel bad about it, and I'm not sure why, but I think it's probably just not worth even thinking about, and I'm going to pass on what could be a great experience just because it turns my life a little bit upside down and the timing is less than ideal. Every time I think about it I have a different thought. I don't know, I'm conflicted.
Dave
I should NOT be on SG right now. I should be working on on the remaining beast, Number Four for Cineman, which frightens me because he wants it fucking huge for me (2 feet x 3 feet), and I'm intimidated by it. It's starting at me, being all massive. Someone help.
It didn't help that I was at work till 8:30 tonight, so I'm sorta burned out as soon as I get home, and sitting in a chair on the internet seems like such a more relaxing proposition.
**UPDATE: Holy Hell it's finally done. damn you giant painting. **
So, in other news, my brother has sublimonally convinced me to reconsider the worst fucking idea ever.
You might recall I am all concerned with cash because I took an expensive trip to SF in May and then had to fly to NY last week and am taking another trip this weekend to SF which proves to be 'spensive, and so I've been saving and doing as much extra scrounging (and painting) to try and get things sane again. So of course, my brother randomly suggested in the middle of it with no small amount of pressure that I take five days off on the SECOND week of July to drive a ridiculous road trip with him.
I want so badly to simply dismiss it as impossible, but part of me is holding onto the idea. First, he's stuck driving a pretty long trip one way from Detroit with his wife, whom he is dropping off in Denver (I don't know, it made sense when he told me). If I don't make any plans with him, he'll be doing that drive back by himself, which admittedly will suck a whole bunch.
His idea is that as long as he has a long drive, he could instead drive to meet me in LA and we could then drive Route 66 that whole week from LA to Detroit and I'd then fly back at the end of the weekend. This way he would have a relief driver, we'd get to take a scenic classic road trip and forge some kind of cliched memory we'd likely remember for a long long time, and I could learn to drive stick and drive his convertible new GT with him across a good part of America.
Thing is, Five days is a lot of time, even if there was a lot of notice and I hadn't just taken other trips. That's basically all my vacation left for the year, giving me less options for later in the year, and even with it being official vacation days, it's a stretch to get it OK'd.
There's an idea to try and find a compromise where maybe I can just take the mid-to-end of the week off and we can leave on Wed morning or Tue night, but that probably makes it necessary to make the drive so quickly that the point of the trip is lost. Alternatively, I could maybe fly and meet him somewhere, take a multi-day drive with him, and then fly back, but then the cost of the flights starts to get crazy on top of the ridiculousness of making all those arrangements and deciding if it is even worth it.
So, I think we left it with him crunching some numbers to see what does and doesn't make sense and what affects what with driving times, amount of time left for actually stopping and having fun, etc, and considering what might and might not make any individual plan worth it.
-I feel bad about it, and I'm not sure why, but I think it's probably just not worth even thinking about, and I'm going to pass on what could be a great experience just because it turns my life a little bit upside down and the timing is less than ideal. Every time I think about it I have a different thought. I don't know, I'm conflicted.
Dave
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surlyclown:
I'm headed up to Winnipeg to see my woman on Monday, so no other travels for me. Have a drink for me and a great time. 
gil:
have a freeekin good time at the squat yo