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68F and raining this afternoon! Absolute Heaven! I set my alarm for noon, hoping to be up by 12:30PM, but instead, I hit the snooze every ten minutes until 1:50PM... proving that there really is no way to get going earlier than 2PM on a Saturday.
It's gonna rain tomorrow too, which means there's a really rough lawn mow in my future next week... cuz as you'll have read in the last entry, my plans for calling in Monday were preemptively shot down by Chantele.
And I'm not sure I can even put in my two weeks notice Monday, if I don't hear back from D313. Because who knows how long it's really gonna take to start at Odlaw?
I can't afford to just coast through a month of unemployment right now.
That PNC loan money is drying up quick, and my FICO score is way down.
I called Tim, and he says it'll be a month before the score goes back up.
It went down mainly because Car Credit cancelled my $3000.00 line with them, because I hadn't used it in a year.
But I was approved for a Discover IT card to get back $3000.00 in available credit... and a second card that gave me another $1000.00... which will leave me with more available credit than I had back in August...
But those two inquiries knocked me down ten more points!
Tim's saying it'll be a month before that all gets reported and everything rebounds.
And I'm gonna pay down the balances on Wells Fargo, and Pen Fed in that month too... to bring it up.
But to do that, I need to hang on to my steady income.
So, I'm at this weird juncture where the balloon payment's still looming out there... the lawyer is moving in slow motion... D313 is moving in slow motion... FICO is moving in slow motion... the funeral/reunion is closing in... and GeoStaff is refusing time off to people.
I got all set up to start marking for the holes. I sharpened 12 pencils down in the basement and had them at the ready.
Using glasses, a tape measure, and the light, I did my best to be accurate.
But I did run into an issue where, on the short dimensions of the 1X3s, I thought I was marking dead center, but it was off by a 16th"... because the damn boards are not exactly the width they seem?...
and it's impossible to measure their true width because of the rounded edges... if that makes any sense.
So, to compensate, I had to line up the top and bottom 1X3s with a right angle jig, exactly where they'll meet with the left and right boards... clamp together... and continue the lines across onto the long boards.
If that makes any sense.
It's a compensation strategy that should work... but ONLY if everything is assembled the right way.
Therefore, I had to clearly mark each board... Window A Left Front, Window A Right Front... Window B Left & Right, etc.
Here's the top and bottom boards for Window A, also marked.
And I had to do this for every single piece of each frame to ensure that my marks would line up correctly.
But when I was all done with my marks, I used the jig and a 1/4 inch drill bit to drill all my peg holes.
The jig has it's own inaccuracy, in that it does not exactly center the holes in the edges of the boards.
This was something many reviewers talked about, so I was aware of it from the jump.
The compensation here was to orent the jig the same way, for every hole.
And that way was to always have the handle side of the jig on the front face of the boards.
This results in all holes being slightly off center toward the back face of the boards.
I double checked this, and I think I did it all right.
However, I won't know until I have my pegs tomorrow.
This could all still go horribly wrong.
I did NOT drill any peg holes for where the cross bars will meet their frames.
I did mark the exact center of the frame boards.
But I'll need to have the frames together, and the crossbars together... and then set the crossbars inside... and continue those center marks onto the crossbars... to be certain where to drill these final holes.
The last thing I did tonight was just clamp like boards to like, to get some of the bow out of them tonight.
Finally a use for the million clamps I bought back in June when I thought I could make a form around the top of the firepit.
And now we wait for Amazon.
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Okay, so, it's the weekend, and Bri is totally walking back his plans to give up the rehersal space and get a new car.
We all did brainstorm this week about it, and it's possible for Brian to get a reliable new car with a payment of $200.00 per month or less.
It depends on what his Avenger is really worth. Tim thinks it could be worth up to 5K in trade. And he may not be wrong, because Tim did manage to get 5K for Dad's Dart, which was the same age.
The UAW strike also makes the Avenger worth more in trade, as it's likely that sedans like that, with low mileage, are gonna become scarcer for a while.
Now, if the Avenger were worth only 2K... the default value of any running car... then with their current credit score, and no extra down payment... yes, that monthly payment would be around $350.00... which they could still afford, but Brian's saying that's too much and impossible.
He now reasons that it's a better idea to just pay for ball joint repairs and keep the Avenger... Keep limping it around town... and ride his bike to work.
But ball joints would be $1000.00 all day.
And I told him, that if he just put that $1000.00 toward the down payment instead, and traded the car in, as is, that too... would bring the car payment down to $200.00... if, in fact, the car were only worth 2K as a trade.
So there would be NO scenario, in which it would make sense to waste money on ball joint repairs.
But in several other very realistic scenarios, they could get a reliable car without having to pony up any extra money for a down payment at all!
He has the green light shining brightly to get a reliable car for a low monthly payment.
But he is squirreling out of it, and pretending not to understand math or english, and insisting that it's better to just pay for the ball joints and keep the Avenger... because he cannot give up the rehersal space.
My neice Celina caught on Instagram toinight, Brian doing a video begging his followers for money to pay the rent on his rehersal space... filming his old storage unit in the rain, sadly saying this is where he'd have to play his drums if they don't contribute... and adding that the police would likely be called on him in that storage garage!
So... he's still determined to stay a giant dildo!
Losing his precious rehersal space to drunkenly drum and sing along with pre 1969 classics, alone, for nobody, at the cost of $350.00 per month... is not the only thing he fears.
He also knows that, if he owns a reliable car... he loses his universal excuse to get out of everything!
He has owned that car for 10 years, and in those ten years, there have been many visits by Colleen, Sheila, Kevin, and their kids.
And there have been numerous reasons for him to come visit Dad, either in the hospital, or just to hang with him before he died.
And over those ten years, he has used car trouble every single time, to get out of being here.
If he gets a new car now... he loses that! He has to go back to excuses about being sick, or... work... or... whatever.
Even excuses, for him, are hard work, and it's a lot easier to just always go with car trouble... whether or not it's real.
His car really is now, on it's last legs, though... which is why he's begging people for money on Instagram.
And he was out begging for car repair money on Facebook a few months ago.
He's getting desperate, but he WILL NOT let go of either the Avenger, or his expensive drunk space.
Instead he's doubling down on asking everybody else to subsidize, both his shit car, and his drunk space.
And everybody also has to excuse him... despite donating money to him... from ever showing his face at a gathering.
He is a massive, useless DILDO!
As I said even before Miracle In DeKalb he has the resources to make his life work.
But he likes it broken.
That's the bottom line.
Hide in DeKalb... waste all the money on bullshit.. make endless excuses to get out of shit... beg for money.
That's the life he likes!
As the old folks used to say, he has no shame.
And as of this round... trying to help him with the car he never really wanted to get... I'm done!
I am not texting or talking with him any further this fall.
The winter, for me, will be about the recording studio.
If it weren't for the hatch door and the storms, it would already be about the studio.
But it's fine.
This isn't a race.
The studio is a long range goal.
But I've already gotten a big start on it.
Producing some good tracks will take more time.
But eventually... good new productions will exist, next spring... and find their way online.
And to Brian... it will seem like they came out of nowhere!
And it will be unfair!
And I'm looking forward to that, because he'll be riding a bike, still limping a shit car around town and blowing all his money on a drunk space... scrambling... to try and catch up.
And he won't catch up.
And I won't help him.
Because...
right now...
He is being such a goddam DILDO!
