I'm SomeGuy, 29 years old, residing in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I've studied English Literature, Chinese Martial Arts, and am currently pursuing careers in writing - possibly even in the anime industry itself.
And I work for this site.
And you should be watching Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad.
Or watching Ranma 1/2.
Or learning about the Shinsengumi.
Or planning to visit Vancouver, The Best Place On Earth (actual marketing motto).
Here at the "Smallville" page, I have my personal blog where I'll post about anything and everything. If ya need me or otherwise need to know anything from/about me, here's where I'll be.
If you're really looking for my more professional, site-type stuff, you wanna head over my "Metropolis" world.
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Dinner at home last night was sweet. Gotta love Mid-Autumn . . .
. . . anyway, depressing money story ahead . . .
Brought my Subaru into the shop today to get its 120,000km servicing. Now I went in knowing fully well that this was gonna be an expensive service; apparently 120,000 is important like that. But then, naturally, while the car's in there, they find all the other problems with it. This is going to hurt my bank very badly in the next little while . . .
Alright, so from the top . . . the "big service": $336.69
And then apparently I agreed to a full power steering fluid flush: $109.98
I also had another thing I wanted to get checked out involving my starter or something. They diagnosed that: $83.30
Diagnosis is that my OEM neutral switch assembly is getting bonked. Part is fairly cheap but needs to be shipped in from Toronto and will take about a week. If I want it, I need to pay for that now. That said, that wasn't quite the problem I was worried about, but I think they picked up on that one later. Meantime, cost of the neutral switch: $38.63
And then of course, as you all remember, I had an incident last spring. To wipe away the final vestiges of my memories of smacking the hell out of my fender, they can also order in a front-right side marker for me: $48.50
So total cost of today's services and orders (including labour): $738.40
So that's essentially one paycheck. Gross. And it's still not done yet . . . I've got a bigger problem . . .
My head gasket is cracked. It has been leaking oil and coolant. This is the kind of thing that will kill a car if not fixed. On top of that, it's going to be about ten hours of labour to fix it.
Oh yeah, and my starter is pretty stuffed right now too. I'll probably need to replace that too.
Their quote also mentions costs for replacing my holed fog lights. I think that is a $489.73 I can afford to hold off on for now (I inherited those fog lights, actually). So yeah, screw the fog lights. For now, anyway.
Add to that the cost of labour (including for all those fun bits I still have to install that areflying in from Toronto) . . .
. . . to fix this other stuff, we're looking at an estimated total of about $2500-$3000. Unless that includes the fog lights, in which case it's $2000-$2500.
Either way you slice it, that's essentially half of all my liquid assets to my name, if not a little more. I think I'll be poking my parents for a little bit of help on this one this week. It's actually a little funny because there have been a few times I've kinda chewed them out for always wanting to cover my costs since I live alone. I want to pay my own way, take care of myself, y'know? Well, they always say to ask if I ever need anything, and I always say "if I have anything, I will."
I think I have something about which to ask for help now. Maybe they'll be happy in that sense.
Incredibly satisfying season opener. It actually kinda feels like it's getting funnier in just the way everyone interacts more, like Ryan and Esposito horning in on business that isn't technically theirs. But they gotta back their girl up, so they'll go to the ends to see it through.
Follow that up with so many well planned double-meaning dialogues that just work on every level, and another pretty decent mystery. It was actually kinda fun, when Castle and Beckett jumped up and went "I know who the killer is!", I had the commercial to think about it. And then I went "OHHHH I know who the killer is too!!!"
And then it's just all so sweetly pulled together, and Fillion is still awesome for being Fillion, and Katic is looking incredibly glamourous right now . . . oh, and when Castle was all "I missed you too..." and she does that shy smile . . . heart-melting. Absolutely heart-melting.
I do love this show . . .
. . . and since I'm on a roll, have another YouTube! I didn't learn until just the other day that Bon Jovi wrote a song with "Superman" in the title. I listen to it and know right away it's one of those songs where you listen to it and go, "yup, this is a very me kinda song . . ."
I'm totally wearing a Superman t-shirt right now, too . . .
Happy birthday Jess'! You probably won't see this for another month, but don't say I didn't forget!
(Most of you probably don't know this Jess'. Most of you, anyway . . .)
In other news, The Playstation Move works. Gladiator Duel is fun, Bocce is more fun than it should be, Archery is satisfying and quirky, and Disc Golf has a lot going for it. And sure, I totally bought the "Wii Sports" game for it and I'm still likely waiting for newer, better games to be integrated for it, but yes. So far, I'd say it motion-controls very well. Comfortable to hold, too. Though now my shoulder's sore - forgot that's how these sorts of games roll. Oops.
And really, someone had to give it a test. If I'm gonna be selling them, I'd better get a feel for it myself first.
So let's see . . . that's girl's birthday, that's Move . . . what's left . . .
Ah yes, CASTLE TOMORROW NIGHT!!! Let us be reintroduced to the love that is Castle by watching Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic read liberally from the novel "Heat Wave" (which reminds me, I still need to pick that up):
Seriously folks. If you don't love Nathan Fillion yet, the hell are you waiting for?!
