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Typing without a net

Welcome to stream of consciousness posting.
I'm typing live in the LJ post window instead of writing offline in my text editor.
So you might get topic whiplash. I'm just sayin'... :)

Well, how about a weekend recap, what little of it I remember?
There was a LUGOLA meeting on Saturday, in Sherman oaks, which is pretty close as far as LUGOLA meetings go. Only 3 people showed up: me, the host, and car-crazy Tim. We talked about cars and Legos and looked at some of both online. Our host had purchased kosher Coke, so I had to try some of that. Hmmmmm, real sugar...
After the meeting I hit a Ross Dress For Less store on the way home. I was looking for some cheap t-shirts, but I wound up with a nice pair of shoes. Nike Elites in purple and white in size 16 for the princely sum of $13.99. DUDE!
They look nice and they're very comfy and they're easy to put on and take off.
I think they were made in 2006 and I can't find any pictures of them online. Not even on Zappos.com.
If I thought people actually gave a damn, I would take a picture of them shoes and post it here.
Hmmmm, then again, some people might be curious as to what a pair of size 16 Nikes look like... :D
Thaaaaaaar she blooooooows!!!! :D
And I never did post a picture of the Nike Blacktrons, or the Nike Softserve, and the Adidas Snakeskin.
I sense an all-shoe extravaganza coming on! Somebody stop me!

Ahem, anyway...
After Ross, I had lunch at the Sherman Oaks In-N-Out, then drove home.
I think I put the rest of the Vespa Club badges on eBay and started on the pennants.
If you're wondering what Vespa Club badges and pennants from the '50s look like, go here.
I've got 6 pennants left to put up and I will try to do that tonight.

On Sunday, I slept in, then chained myself to the computer to put up more stuff on eBay.
I finally showered and got dressed at 20:00, then went out to get some dinner.
Since some of the Vespa badges had already sold, I wanted to celebrate a bit by having a decent dinner instead of fast food. But I couldn't decide on a place. As I've mentioned before, there are no Outback Steakhouses or Claim Jumpers local to me.
I remembered seeing a steakhouse down by Slauson and Sepulveda and went over there to check it out. Unfortunately, it was already closed.
I meandered Southbound, looking for anything interesting, and enjoying cruising with the windows down and a nice cool breeze blowing into the cockpit.
I eventually wound up in Manhattan Beach and stopped at my favorite Houston's. It had been a while since my last visit and the menu had changed. Half the steaks were gone, replaced by sushi and fish. They no longer had my favorite porterhouse steak. And the prices had gone up. I was very disappointed, so I left.
I meandered back towards home and wound up stopping at Carl's Jr. for a Six Dollar Burger.
Eating out alone is no fun.
I had left Spino a voicemail earlier in the day detailing my desire to have dinner somewhere nice and cool. I never heard back.

Monday and back to work. It was 88F at 09:00 and that just wasn't right.
It only got hotter from there, topping out at 100F! In the Westside! In April! NO WAI!
I had to go out to get lunch in that heat, my hair almost caught fire! D:
When I got home that night, the Kzinti Freehold was an oven! I only stayed in the bedroom long enough to check e-mail and drag my futon into the living room. I camped out in the living room overnight.

Tuesday and still hot, though not quite as hot as Monday.
Ran some errands at lunchtime (post office, electric bill) and stopped at another Ross. No t-shirts either, but I wound up with a giant Nerf modular assault rifle (Longshot) with fake targetting laser and barrel extension for $8! The only catch: no ammo. And the Longshot uses special Streamline darts that fit into its clips. I hit a Target and a Toys'R'Us before going back to work, and neither one has the ammo. Grrrrr...
Hey! I work for a toy company! Any toy I buy is automatically research! So nyah! :D
Hit another Target and Toys'R'Us after work, and still no luck! What the hell?!?! Both stores sell the Longshot but they don't carry the ammo? They have ALL the OTHER Nerf ammo, but not the Streamline darts! What the hell kinda logic is this!?!?
I stopped at Tito's Tacos to get some tacos then went home. The temperature had seriously dropped by then and the weather felt more normal. I was able to cool the bedroom down enough to work on the computer, but not enough to sleep in it. So I spent the night in the living room again.
While on the computer, I looked for Streamline darts. I found some Amazon stores that had 'em but something screwy was happening with the shipping. I wanted to buy 4 packs of darts and it kept multiplying the shipping by 4, so my $11 of merchandise (4 x $2.75) was costing $19.96 (4 x $4.99) in shipping? Urrrrrr, yeah, I DO NOT THINK SO!
I tried two different Amazon stores and it did the same thing.
So I went on eBay instead and found what I was looking for, without insane quadruple shipping.
Sorry Amazon, you lose!

It's now Wednesday and the temperature has dropped further. We're now back to what the weather was like before the mini heat wave and all is right with the world. Yay!
And eMusic has just added a bunch of Warp records albums, so that means another Warped eMusic post is on the way. Look for it soon!

Ciao bambinos!