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Sat­ur­day after­noon, Kim and I cleaned out my car at my par­ents’ house and I hung out at watched TV for awhile. When I came out the crack in my wind­shield had extended 8 inches beyond the other side of my city sticker. I had decided to put repair­ing it off for awhile but that just wasn’t an option anymore.

So Mon­day I called Glass Doc­tor and they sent a guy out to fix it the same day. I am told that Car Insur­ance will cover auto glass and usu­ally it does not count against the dri­ver. Nev­er­the­less, the cost for the repair was slightly less than my deductible so there was no point in mak­ing a claim. I now have a wind­shield with a life­time war­ranty against leaks, and any breaks or chips that occur within the next 365 days are cov­ered (minus non-glass parts and labor, but I paid the extra 20 dol­lars to extend the war­ranty to cover parts and labor).

My new motto lately is “Get it.”

Kim and I have a com­bined income of about 60k but we live like peo­ple who make half that. The stu­dent loans (mine and hers), my car loan, the price of fuck­ing gas, insur­ance, and what have you are kick­ing us in the pants every day. We’re get­ting by but not com­fort­ably. I always think its bet­ter to save what lit­tle money we have but dammit every time I put off buy­ing some­thing we need and put that money away, some­thing like a wind­shield get­ting pinged with a rock makes me have to spend that money any­way. It’s not like me sav­ing the money makes these minor emer­gen­cies occur, it just makes no sense to hes­i­tate spend­ing out money how we want to because it’s just going to get taken from us anyway.

For sev­eral months I’ve been throw­ing a few extra bucks at my small­est stu­dent loan and my car pay­ment in an attempt to wear it down. Pay­ing of the car will be a won­der­ful thing when it hap­pens. I think once my excess pay­ments chip the prin­ci­ple down to some­thing more man­age­able it will go much faster.

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Back in Decem­ber Kim’s cousins got her a DVD col­lec­tion of the first sea­son of Arrested Devel­op­ment for her birth­day. Kim and I being the incur­able skep­tics that we are, put off watch­ing it until we got the new apart­ment and opted to not order cable. I started to sus­pect when I ripped the cel­lo­phane wrap­per off the box, that I was going to regret not get­ting into this show earlier.

Suf­fice to say we are now on the third disc of sea­son two.

Sweet mother of god, I can’t believe any­thing so inven­tive and hilar­i­ous was ever on TV. Fans of the show can com­plain all they like that it only lasted three sea­sons, but shows like this never ever get made. The fact that it died early gives it the joy of never jump­ing the shark (how many more sea­sons of the Simp­sons can you peo­ple take?)

I hope it makes the cre­ators make a bun­dle in syn­di­ca­tion. And they are mak­ing a movie next year, I hope that doesn’t suck too.

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Meet­ing Geoff and Rianna this week to dis­cuss future “band stuff.” We’re all kind of drag­ging our feet, but it’s under­stand­able. I think we’re all kind of weather worn by our pre­vi­ous attempts in the “music indus­try.” I think its good, though, that we’re all a lit­tle bit jaded but real­iz­ing that we have no choice but to do some­thing. I think good things will come of this group, but it’s just not gonna hap­pen over night. It’s good to meet peo­ple who are on the level musi­cally and also empa­thetic to each other’s pre­vi­ous mis­for­tunes. I think “hit­ting bot­tom” is a strong anal­ogy, but we’ve all been through stuff where we didn’t think music was in out futures any­more and its refresh­ing to walk out of the wreck­age and make the choice to do it anyway.

I don’t know if that makes sense.

I just hope we can find a drummer.