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The past day and a half have been pretty great. It started with Angel and Kristen walking into my workplace shortly before I was let off. This is the first time I’ve met Internet friends in real life so it was exciting. They drove from the Tucson, AZ area to San Diego pretty much just to visit with me for the couple of days I’m off for my “weekend” which is pretty amazing! I haven’t had anyone visit me in San Diego except for family, so I was psyched

They picked me up from work Tuesday afternoon and we were off to Kristen’s dad’s house¹ and he cooked us up steaks, baked potatoes and some veggies which was pretty delicious. Having a solid, home-cooked meal was great; as awesome as the food from work is, it gets boring day in and day out. We just hung around afterward talking and such. The friendships translate well from our chats online to real life.

Today, we drove up to Irvine to meet and have lunch with Tawni. I finally achieved the Over Share badge on 4square². Not only that, but I’ve learned I’ve dropped a few jean sizes, and I have the ability to fit into a size Medium shirt³. Despite some sort of financial snag I learned of, I kept my spirits up and had fun the rest of the afternoon and evening with Ang & Kristen. We met up with Ang’s mother-in-law for dinner. She’s quite the interesting woman! Very high energy and very fun to talk with.

I do have to say, Kristen’s car will be the death of my ears at some point due to her wheels or something being so loud and unfixable, apparently. The consistent low drone it creates is comparable to a very loud fan. You get used to it, but once it’s off, “you realize how unsettling it’s been.”⁴ haha

The only person missing from the whole equation is Jenn! We’ve been thinking and talking about her quite and bit and wish she weren’t so many more states away! Too bad San Diego isn’t cheaper or else we’d ALL live out here together! Maybe if we all pitch in a buy a house and live together with all of our families, it could totally work and be kinda fun? Maybe? No? Poop…

Now I’m sitting here, trying to figure out how to fix the problem with my subdomains. I figure it has something to do with the switch-over to a new server and knocking the databases for my fanlistings and quilting bee quilt out of whack. Since I’m not smart enough in that area, I backed up my databases and will try just starting over. Blerg. Anybody have good resources on learning how to become a more competent website/domain owner? I’m lost when it comes to databases, MySQL and crap like this. It’s beyond me.

I’m back home in SD. The husband was out all day before our drive home with friends at a pub watching the damn World Cup. That’s cool, whatever floats his boat, but I thought we’d be headed back down earlier than 2pm! I mean, having to be at work by 4:30pm is kind of crunch and the later it got, the more likely it was we’d hit some sort of traffic. We hit patches of it and there were idiots in the fast & carpool lanes going slower than 60MPH which was ridiculous. Slow traffic stay RIGHT, assholes! Luckily I got home with enough time to hit the toilet, change quickly and head the 5 minutes down the freeway to work with a few minutes to spare.

We’ll be needing some maintenance to the car SOON. The brakes sound AWFUL and while we haven’t hit the average mileage for the first brake job, we’ve driven this car through a lot of LA traffic, cross-country and through all sorts of up & down terrain coming up & down between LA & SD. Not to mention some of the belts need to be replaced since they’re looking aged and cracked. We definitely don’t want something more expensive to occur because we neglected to change that shit out.

I’ve had my new laptop since, I think, March? Somehow the power adapter cord has melted itself through (or maybe it got under some other hot running electronic) and tonight the laptop wouldn’t acknowledge that fact that it was plugged in. Lo-behold, it’s melted enough through that it’s fricken smoking through the melted rubber/plastic on the cord. *sigh* Looks like I’ll be making a trip to Fry’s tomorrow morning since I’ll be wanting to use my laptop while I’m on vacation (hello movies!). Though it’ll only be half useful without Internet access, having a dead battery with no way to charge it would render it useless. It’d make for a great weight for when it gets windy, though!

So now I’m currently using a little battery power as possible (dim screen, no fancy desktop effects, as few open programs as needed). After I take care of some online business, I’ll be off to take a shower, get some clothes put together for my vacation and head to bed to wake up early for a doctor’s appointment. I have no hope of doing laundry efficiently here since our all-in-one machine takes forever with ONE small load! I’ll have to lug a bunch of dirty (though some clean!) to my parents’ house when my brother comes to pick me up. Thankfully they’ve got the family-sized efficient machines that are only a few years old (at least, the washer’s pretty damn new)

PS: I have a new theme up. I’ve made some personalized adjustments to it but I’m still working on it as a whole! I need to make changes to have it reflect a personal blog and not a “magazine” style website, since that’s what the theme was meant for. I can do this! It’s not like I’m making a theme from scratch and no experience