Errands II
Today I was released from work early because Jeremy's last job was just north of the county line, in Los Angeles County. If he took me he'd have to drive 40 miles north to the job, 40 miles south back to drop me off at the shop, and 20 miles north again to go home.
I took the opportunity to do some more errands. Spent an hour and a half at Save-On as they tried to figure out how to print my digital pictures. Ultimately the plaztards there were unsuccessful. In an unusual tragedy I'd forgotten my cell phone when I went on this errand, and my watch exploded the other day, so I found myself in the peculiar situation of having no way to tell the time. Once I escaped from there I stopped by home briefly before heading out to the Ritz Camera in the Laguna Hills Mall. After stopping at home, the car (the Eurovan) would not even begin to start. Somehow in the two minutes I was in the house the life had been completely and utterly sucked out of the battery (!?). Then I realized if that had happened to me just a few minutes earlier I'd have been stuck at Save-ons without a working car and without a phone!!!!
Then I scampered off with the other car, the Vanagon, to see if Ritz Camera could print my pictures. They did, but when my pictures weren't 2:3 dimensions, rather than shrink the photo to fit on the print with extra space on one side or another, they just took the liberty of choosing an edge of the picture at random to lob off. As I'd already cropped off any unnecessary edge of all my pictures, they were invariably damaged by this hooliganery. I'd expect such boorish behaviour from Save-ons, but it seems like a camera place would have more respect for ones photography than to crop significant peices off of pictures in a completely random manner. Anyway, I now have 70 of my favourite pictures in physical form (and at least 65 still have some merit after the cropping frenzy!)
While waiting for the pictures to print I went down to the hot topic in the Mall, as I hadn't ended up getting any hair dye when I went to the Hot Topic at the Spectrum on Sunday. I'm wearing my bee busters uniform because I set off adventuring straight off from work. As soon as I walk in one of hte employees is like "Bee Busters! So where's my neighbour Jeremy?" Recall I got just about the same reaction froma different girl in the other Hot Topic on Sunday. Weird.
Also today another lady said Jeremy and I look like brothers.
Picture of the Day
My new boots came today! Sunday's errand running had started out as a search for new boots, but I only got as far as calling every boot source in south county before I realized nowhere down here has awesome boots (and by awesome boots I mean docs). I proceeded to the docmartens webpage and placed an order for a pair of the 8761 series boots for $119.95 (including s&h). More pictures of these beauties can be found here.
Anyway, in this picture they're shown next to my old classic 1460 series docs, which have served me well for four years now. I'm still going to wear the old ones to work though. Hopefully I don't get a yellowjacket in through the hole in the toe. Also note the numerous beehive boxes (supers) in our livingroom.
Previously on Emosnail
Two Years Ago Today: Knitting Factory is the Devil - Shows in Los Angeles can suck it, driving up there is plazcrap.
Year Ago Today: Darfing Services - I start summer sessions at UCI, and photobucket begins to get saucy.
200 Pictures Ago: Elevator to the Open Sky - Another one of my very favourite photographs just got knocked off the viewable last 200 pictures on flickr. )= This one was taken on the pedestrian overcrossing at the Irvine train station.