Massive and un-restrained title change was necessary

'nuff said, for now. goodnight!

Not that they weren't authentic already, but now they're married, too!






and if I do say so myself, Tracy and I were looking (almost) as good as the bride and groom!

Monroe- unfortunately, it was WAY too busy to see anyone other than my family. the wedding was busy; I was helping set up for it. However, I will be back down again at some point and give everyone a call.

going to pick up pictures from walgreens. my new couch gets here tomorrow- I'll post pictures of the house AND of my brother's wedding then, I think.

so, mi frater, un of duo, is getting married on sunday.

saturday I work at 373- I switched with DTox (Dustin Cox, but apparently he's Detox to some of his friends)- that way I can get an early start down to norman.

I don't know what I think. who would have thought, that a mere 6, no, 7 months after I was married, he'd decide it was time?

I like (Niaz). I think they'll be happy together.


I was just in norman, actually- this last weekend (mine, so- tuesday wednesday) and I changed his oil for him. I will say that the matrix [they] purchased is absurdly easy to maintain.

today, I changed MY oil.

I can feel the difference. no jokes.


would anyone else like an oil change? I've just got all the tools laying around anyway, might as well.

Naomi- would you email me? (Erichpryde@gmail.com)

thanks.

so one of my clerks told me not to buy gasoline on may 15th (today) because it would force the retailers to lower their prices. she even tried to tell me that it worked in 1999, and that gas prices went down 30 cents.

where? who lowered them? why don't more people know about this?

because it never worked. I looked it up, in depth. I even found a site that SAID gasoline went down "X cents," (there were several numbers quoted) but no one had a source.

the suggestion I've heard is "buy the gasoline you need the day before or the day after, but don't buy it on the 15th."

well, what the hell is that going to accomplish? you're still buying gas. Does anyone else get this!? if you want to effect the price of a product, try NOT BUYING IT AT ALL!

If any of you CAN'T figure out why this wouldn't work, please go kill yourself. This is a prime example of how lazy america is.


you know what would really work? try filling your fucking tank UP with gas regularly. Instead of buying 5 dollars every day, try filling up once a week. THAT will save you money, and here's why:

You won't have to waste gas to get to the gas station every day (unless you also waste money buying single sticks, in which case you'll be at the gas station anyway)

Gasoline won't evaporate in your gas tank as easily (because your tank is more regularly full, instead of always on empty)

Your car might be more fuel effecient- especially the old kind of cars that start to choke and sputter when the tank is low. furthermore, your car might stay in somewhat of a decent shape. then you won't leak oil all over the parking lot.

Why is it that so many people come into QuikTrip and say "I need 15 dollars in gas on pump 4" when in actuality they've already pumped it?

That's just stupid. maybe you NEEDED 15 on pump number 4. but now you've already pumped it. so you either "had 15 on 4" or you've already "pumped 15 on 4."

There's the border between the carpet and the tile. I was putting it off so randy made the cut for me (using his tile saw. ridiculous.) and put the gold piece down.











It looks like a room, eh?








And this is the jacket you get for being a 1A or 2A! If you're an NA or an RA I guess you're just not good enough to get something so spiffy.














I thought about doing this section here with the vent differently, but it turned out pretty good!












And here's the new-fangled washer! I'm pretty happy with how the whole thing turned out.

So.... I tore up the carpet in the laundry room.













it already looks better.



and I look pretty good in a gas mask, if I do say so myself. that crap in my hand there is hardibacker. I screwed it down to the floor, and then put a layer of mortar down.









Now I'm laying the tiles out. I didn't have to do it that way, but I did do it that way so I could cut them to fit properly... kinda like a diagram.

There's Randy's tile saw. hella expensive, but I'm glad he let me borrow it. it made it all possible.






Now I (we) are actually laying tile. Randy happened to be over, so he's helping out. If he's around he'll help. it's how he is. We've got those spacers in place to make sure the tile doesn't move around...








It actually goes pretty quickly. And it's really not that bad at all. I'm definitely going to tile my bathrooms!








Using the famous tile saw now. It was a really loud beast, and it was getting late, so we shut the garage door. Wouldn't want to upset the neighbors- yet. Just wait until they find out I'm stitching together zombies in the basement!













Time for some grout! The nice float helped out a lot.



and we're done! now all I have to look forward to is the cleanup. :-!























That was three or more weeks ago.


all pictures courtesy of Tracy.

as if I didn't have enough to do already, Sean left me all of these. two layers deep. hundreds.

Eat more chikin!

I like it when I'm right. furthermore, I find it amusing when I know more about someone else's beliefs than they do.

you didn't offend me. it did make me laugh. so, let me rephrase the question- of all the things you did in georgia, why did hearing a cat meow make you think of me? you got wheat pennies there, too. thanks for those, by the way. :)


but I bet you gave Nathan more!

and maligned, too. has anyone ever noticed that?

why do you want to know?

just let it go.

who cares?

it's not like it's important information anyway.

our society sucks. a lot. every single day we expect people to know things that they don't, and yet, every single day we teach people NOT TO ASK questions.

well, how the fuck do you expect me to learn if I don't ask questions?

I'm alwaYS going to be asking questions. like questions about this house. I want to know everything there is to know about it. and what's wrong with that? nothing. I understand, however, that social norms suggest I don't hunt down the previous owner and start rifling through his personal life for answers. (By the way, I actually met him at a party the other night. our neighbor Jeff was having his 40th birthday party, and the previous owner was there. I thanked him for the refrigerator he left in the garage. I guess that makes me a prick. but he was really drunk, and I thought it'd be the best time to say anything about it.)

I'm always going to be asking inane questions. I want the answers- I'm going to store them for everyone. so give them to me.

you hear a cat, it reminds you of me because I meow. I am now associated with felines. now, my question is what makes that kind of connection in your head? cats meow all the time. why am I connected with them? my meow is not the same thing.

I find a random web page on the internet. the poster (or perhaps creator) seems to be going through some personal issues. it's a private webjournal I found through the "next blog" feature on our blogger pages.

they aren't from this country. where are they from? what do they look like? why do they have a completely private web page? and why don't they answer their comments?

none of these questions are my business. yet I have these questions, all the time.

I had a completely insane lady come in tonight. she put a gallon of water, 12 oz can of pop, and a 2 liter on the counter. she handed me three dollars and told me that she also wanted cigarettes.
now I don't know where YOU might be from, but I have no idea where you could buy all of those items for under three dollars.
I told her she didn't have enough money to buy everything. In response, she told me that she was old enough to buy cigarettes.

that's great, but you STILL don't have enough money to buy anything. the conversation went to antarctica from there.

what makes someone that completely nuts?

how does an automatic transmission reallly work?

why is the pontiac aztec built on a van chassis?

why would Ford Motor company think it was a good marketing strategy to start naming everything with the letter F as the beginning letter of the word (in order to match Ford- exampes are the Focus, the Freestyle, the Fusion, the Five Hundred)

why do people think that Mazda and Ford are seperate companies? Mazda is ford owned. most mazda cars are built on the same platform as some ford car or other. the ford fusion, mercury milan, lincoln zephyr and mazda 6 all share the same chassis. Mazda = ford, for all intents and purposes.

Jay leno is an avid car collector. he owns an original stanley steamer (that is, a steam powered car they quit making sometime in the early 1900's), a turbine powered motorcycle that produces 320 hp at 53,000 rpm (yes. that's right. I didn't typo) and can go 227 miles per hour. it's called the y2k MTT turbine SUPERBIKE.
he also owns something called the blastolene special. it's basically... a racecar made out of a tank engine.
why do I know this? I don't know. I was curious about something and it led to something else which mentioned Jay leno and his car collection.

front loading washers are cool. and that's all for now!

McLaren F1 designer and evo magazine contributing editor Gordon Murray credits the NSX as one of the most significant cars of the 1990s, calling it the world's "first practical, well made, rear-mid-engined supercar." According to him, thanks to the NSX, established supercar companies, especially Ferrari, were forced to upgrade their engineering and build quality and not just rely on the prestige and mystique of their name.

so I don't know what was going on with that last post. and I didn't ever finish the post about the house. well, not gonna do that now.

This last week I've been in "training" with my store manager, Nathan. (I make it a habit to post about work very little, but I got promoted a few weeks ago to 2A, and it feels like somewhat of an accomplishment.) Nathan's pretty cool- I didn't really learn very much, and what I did learn won't technically make me a better 2A. Since I've worked the 2A schedule (on and off, mostly on) since thanksgiving, I know the job pretty well and am fairly used to the hours.
Since Nathan didn't really have much to teach me on being a 2A, he instead taught me 1A and store manager stuff. Nothing any of you would care about, I'm sure.
the weekend I have (tuesday and wednesday) is kinda sucky- at least from the standpoint of me visiting anyone during the school semester (or someone visiting tracy and I in wichita). However, the pay and the fact that I'm not working 3rd shift anymore make up for that.

Tracy and I have a very large sectional couch coming in in the next couple of weeks. it will compliment the downstairs quite nicely- when we get it (and the washer and dryer coming in this coming monday) I will finalize my tour of the house.

We have a front loading washer and dryer coming soon, too. we bought a fridgidaire washer, and a GE electrical dryer. I reviewed all of our options carefully- for energy/water efficiency, among other things. for the price, I got basically the best I could find in those categories- I didn't really want to spend a whole lot on washers and dryers (some washers, like the samsung silver care setup, were in excess of 1200. yeah, that's a bad ass washer and it will even order take out chinese for you, but DAMN), so we set a limit, stretched it a little, and then bought the best for our money.

I tiled the laundry room- it's completely finished, except for some sealant. Tracy actually took pictures of the work in progress, which I will probably post tomorrow. Thanks to Randy's 300 dollar tile saw, the job was made easy and it looks very professional. (Also, I'd like to thank Randy for his help. too bad he doesn't want my help with his basement.)

I'm saving up for some unecessary parts for my car- this summer I'm going to pick up an exhaust header and cat-back exhaust system. (the header is where exhaust gases exit the engine- it's some piping from each cylinder that meets up at one tube. a cat back exhaust simply means that everything behind the catalytic converter has been changed.)
I'm not going for a ricer look or sound- the exhaust setup will be slightly louder than stock, but it won't have the ricer buzz to it. that buzz is generally caused by the removal of the catalytic converter.
however, there are high-flow cats you can purchase for my car. I don't know how effective they are at actually being a catalytic converter, but they give you a large horsepower jump while still being able to pass emissions (except california doesn't like them, the California Air Resource Board, specifically. that's what CARB stands for).
Some bridgestone potenza RE960 pole position tires, eibach springs, powerslot frozen brake rotors, hawk brake pads, and finally, a hondata reflash, should finish off the car. all of those are far down the line. I think the springs and brakes will come before the reflash, but after the tires.
I'm also going to purchase a tie bar...
after all of that, maybe I'll take the Si down to a track. I figure after all of that, it should have a 0-60 time of around five seconds (or a tiny bit less, probably a tiny bit less) and a 1/4 mile of low 14 something. not that anyone cares.

Finally, rex is getting married to Niaz, and they bought a new toyota matrix.

that's all my thoughts for now.

hmm...