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shock marbles

(transcribed from Book Two of my diary)

10:40AM Tuesday July 14, 1992

Last night Laura came over and helped me fix Blue Wave. She simply gave me a new editor (QEdit) which has word wrap and all variety of hotkey redefinitions.

Today I woke up and got started big time on my stuff that I want to do for my JAM sessions with Heather. I called and made an appointment with Dr F. Wooten to get some disposable contacts. Then I called Dr Sheffield to get my records from them transferred to Dr Wooten. Then I called a shoe repair place and then drove my dress shoes over there and he will put rubber soles on them. Then I was driving home and suddenly (metal dragging on concrete sound) came from beneath the van. Great. So I pulled into Birraporetti's parking lot and looked. My shock had fallen off! holy shit! So I tied it up off the ground and drove to the Goodyear Tire place. They said it would be 45 minutes before they could look at it. So I said "Ok I'm going to walk home; just call me." So I walked over to Pier 1 Imports and looked around. I picked up a crazy crazy straw and then I found a barrel with the very bottom covered with blue marbles. There was a coffee cup with the handle broken off and a sign that read, "Blue or Peach marbles $.48 per cup" I grabbed about 8 marbles. I took them up to the counter: Straw, clickclickclickclickclick 8 marbles. She looked and said, "uh, where'd these come from?" "There was a barrel back there that said 48 cents per cup, but I didn't want that many." "Hmm that's a far cry from a cup. Don't you want all of them and get them off my hands?" "How much would all of them be?" "1/2 off 48 cents." "Ok."

So I went back and got the whole barrel and brought it up front. She loaded them into a bag (about 5 cups worth) "Do you want the dust, too?" "Sure." So I got the dust and the popsicle stick and 5 cups of blue marbles and one(1) peach marble and a crazy crazy straw for $1.27. Killer.

I left, feeling like quite a shrewd business man. Then I stopped by Mrs Baird's Thrift shop and bought 4 apple pies and 1 pineapple pie. Then I came home and wrote this.

11:20AM

The Goodyear people called and said $135 to put the shocks on. I thought, "no way." So did dad so I called them back and said "No way." I'm leaving now to go pick it up. Later

11:59PM

I uploaded 68 messages to the Castle today. A new record for me. I'm talking to Laura right now. Later permalink