motivation
Actually working at work
Today was a rare day, I actually had some motivation at work. I don't know why my motivation comes and goes so often. Will I do anything else productive today or this week? Probably not, we'll see. I feel like I've been drained of my motivation already from just a few hours of proper work. It's not even that hard of a job, it just requires some critical thinking for diagnosing problems and resolving them. Very little communication involved. something something ADHD burnout something something.
Tendies...
Not much else going on today. I had KFC for lunch. Probably overpaid on the "deal" I ordered. I got a sandwich with wings, side, and drink. Came out to almost $13, and I was expecting 6 wings, not 3. My mistake there. Food was good, but hardly worth the price. The wings in particular are surprisingly good when they're fresh. I like them much better than the tenders here. The tenders always seem very mediocre, especially compared to wing stop. The KFC tenders aren't cheap either.
Good eBay sellers
The radiator assembly I ordered for my moms car arrived already, that was quick. Took just 2 days to get here. Glad I ordered from a local ebay seller instead of taking a gamble on a cheaper, 3rd party part from amazon that had up to ten day shipping. Planning on installing this thing Saturday, hopefully it doesn't put up a fight.
HOAs
I hate HOAs. The one where I live is full of morons that cannot think rationally. I've got some stupid stories I could tell, but those will have to wait for another day. What brought this to mind just now is that I need to pressure wash my driveway before they stick a vaguely threatening letter to my door. Yes reader, I need to wash the ground outside. Lovely use of water and my time. And no, pressure washing in real life is not very fun.
Since we're on this topic I may as well mentioned some related HOA stories on my driveway. First off, there was one time they made me pressure wash my massive driveway in the middle of a drought, and city even sent out letters telling people to conserve water here. HOA did not care. They didn't like that my driveway, which is outside, was slightly dirty. They gave me a week to pressure wash it before that start with the fines, and by the way, if you don't resolve issues like these in a timely manner, they will illegally send you a fake eviction letter. I'll explain how I learned about that first hand another time.
And there is a second little driveway story. So my driveway was originally painted by some dumbass many years ago (who the hell think painting the floor, outside, is a good idea?), and the paint was faded badly when the bought this place. Fast forward a few years, and it's more faded. It didn't look bad if you asked me, but the HOA decided it needs repainting. They gave me 1 week to do it. My giant, 6 car driveway. Plus a little bit of painted side walk. One week. I asked about that, and they said they would give me an extension. Why on earth they default to 1 week for a huge job like this, I don't know. It's not even possible to paint the entire driveway at once since there are cars in it, and the paint takes days to cure. It's been a while so I don't remember the square footage, or exact number of cans of paint. But I believe it was 7-8 cans of paint, costing almost $300.
So anyways, I start painting the ground outside myself, like a totally normal, sane person. It took hours and hours just to do half of the drive way. Oh and I forgot, I had to pressure wash the entire thing first and use a strong acidic cleaner. That took a long time too because I had to be fairly thorough. Fast forward a few days now after painting, actually, I think I let it cure closer to a week, then I painted the remaining half and the bit of sidewalk. Wait a week, and boom, a few hundred dollars and several hours later, the floor is now blue-ish grey outside my house. Wonderful. The best part is, the paint I bought, which was the only one I could find with good reviews, did not actually bond that well to the cement driveway. Despite giving it around twice as long to cure before parking on it, lots of the paint is coming off where the car wheels were. Lovely. But as long as the morons in the HOA don't complain, I literally could not care less what my driveway looks like.
Music this week
Maybe one day I will post about the time I flew to Seattle to Goreshit and DJ Sharpnel. That was a good weekend.
I don't think I have much else to ramble about here. I really should get up now and go pressure wash my driveway before I get too distracted.
I can distract myself a little more here right now though. Good a time as any to talk about my current youtube habits. I've been watching some car youtubers for a bit now. I watched all of the Chris Fix videos way back when. But I never really had any regular car channels I watched until recently. Well I've been watching Noriyaro for a while, but whatever.
So this last year or so I've gotten rather interested in watching mid westerners fix up old abandoned cars. I'm not sure what the first channel I got into was, but I think it might have been Junkyard Digs. Next up is Vice Grip Garage I think, took a little bit for this channel to grow on me. That guy is the reason why I became a Leatherman autist, I might a post about leathermans one day. Next up is Low-Buck Garage. Bit of a different style from those other two channels. I love this guy, I hope I'm at least 1/10th as smart as he is when I'm his age. And last, but not least, I discovered Haters Garage a few months back. This guy seems like he's barely 24 but is very knowledgeable. I don't know how he's so patient with this builds he works on. He barely used power tools in a lot of his older videos. Oh, and I guess you can count Big Time, though lately they haven't been posting much of interest.
Leatherman, my friend
Sort of related to cars, I've been watching Whistlin Diesel since last year, feels like redneck viva la bam for the modern era honestly, I really enjoy this channel more than I should probably.
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