Back after All These Days...
Wow. I didn't realize I was gone for a month. Why? Tutoring. We get really slow in the summer and I usually blog while doing my online tutoring. This past month, I've only been getting weird hours (like 2AM-4AM, stuff like that) because we rotate the schedule so everyone gets a chance at normal hours. Needless to say, my blogging has suffered. News:
My, My 4th Of July (a po-em)
Burgers, beer, bean bags, and
Sunshine, and sunscreen, and sunburn and
Family, friends, food, fun, and
Fireflies and fireworks and firelight and
Drunk.
We also got a new car. "Hey, aren't you strapped for cash?" you might say. Well, actually, yes, very much so. My wife got laid off for the Summer, and, the aforementioned reduction in tutoring means less money in the house. We actually ended up with a larger car for the same money thanks to Chevrolet's 0% financing deal.
We got a Chevy HHR. It's truly sweet and I got a great deal on it. We traded in the old car, on which we still owed about $5100, and actually came out ahead. How does one do that? Well, you make them appraise the car before you tell them how much you owe. Then, they give you $6100 for the car, and there's your down payment. We actually got a sweet special edition (called the Shadow Edition) with a moon roof. We've never had a moon roof, and I must say, it's nice. But, I stil don't know the difference between moon and sun roofs.
It's an anomaly of measurement. It's 8 inches shorter than my wife's old car, but has more front and rear legroom and twice the cargo space. Here's a pic (hijacked from 'tinternet, but exactly what our new ride looks like).
Hope all's well with everyone. I'll try to get on here more, but I will probably not really pick up to regularity until the fall.
Piece.
10 people farted in the elevator:
Thank the Maker, you're back. I was almost literally dying of boredom because I'm apparently the only one who didn't hear about the sabbatical all bloggers were taking these past few weeks...
Nice ride!
Glad to see you didn't jump the blogging ship.
Totally unrelated but…How far are you from Rockford, IL? My Mom is moving there, so perhaps some lifetime we can do a blogger meet-up.
I'll ask man-friend, the car salesman the difference between a sunroof and moonroof. I thought after 2.5 years of dating him, I knew every useless thing there was to know about cars but alas, you have stumped me.
I think a lot of people's blogs have been suffering. Glad to see you are alive and well. Can't wait until you are "regular" again in the fall. :)
Love the last line in your po-em. I like to do that often.
Do you ever post anymore loser?
Go suck an egg!
(Whatever happened to that saying. Moreover, what does it mean, shut your mouth or die weirdly?)
-Your Brother
Your Brother- Sometimes chickens need help. Back in the day, long before the advent of mechanical farm machinery, by far the worst job on any livestock farm was aiding the chickens who needed help with the birthing process. Their "egg shoots" would stick closed and the only way the Farmer was able to free the "egg shoot" and allow for the egg to pass freely was to suck out the crunchy coated embryonic vessel. Much like siphoning fuel from a tank using a hose, the farmer would sometimes inhale the egg. The other farmers would more than likely laugh at him...and than the farmer, spitting out pieces of egg, would say "Boy, do I have egg on my face!"
Hey TF! I decided a life without blogging is not worth living. Well, I didn't decide that so much as realize I had a lot of stupid things to say and nobody in Orlando wanted to hear them.
I thought the big difference was that you cann fully open a sun roof and hang out of it whereas with a moonroof you can only lookout and see through portion of the roof. Am I wrong?
Why don't you eve post on Liberally lean anymore. I lucked out and found your blog again. Be good and hope to hear from you on there.
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