LolAma

Okay, not so much, but between the time shift and the weather recently it almost feels like it’s summer again. San Diego has no seasons anyway, just random weather rolling through.

Since it’s been ridiculously nice out, I wore a skirt to work today. The world cowers in fear of my pasty legs! I’m stupidly paler than anyone I know, and when I wear something that makes it obvious (legs showing, swimsuit), people seem to for some reason feel the need to point out ‘damn ur white’ as if I … didn’t already know this or something. — NO WAI REALLY? I HADNT NOTICED!

I have knee freckles. :/

Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way –work continues on as usual. I get to start packing my apartment since my lease is up at the end of the month, and my roomie is moving out as well. This time I’ve decided to stick with smaller boxes so I can actually pick them up when they’re full, plus I don’t have that much crap that really needs a large box or can be stacked inside one. Expect me to bribe friends who have choice cars (read, larger than mine) to help me move, generally by way of food. Everyone wants food. My weekends should be pretty busy for the rest of the month… I have a feeling I’ll be tossing/donating a lot of stuff as there’s a good amount of things that I never even unpacked from when I moved in, which is a good sign I don’t really need it.

Driving the s2k continues to improve, it’s really not much of a major event anymore. The final clicking-into-place happened when I realized I was occasionally catching 5th instead of 3rd; the shifter is so tight that even though it centers itself, the slightest lean to the right out of paranoia to avoid 1st meant that I was catching into the 5th gear gate half the time. Ironically the only way to really tell was seeing the RPM dropoff - with the gearing, it never actually bogged down on that jump and I thought I was sometimes mis-timing my gas and clutch going into 3rd. I switched to a much lighter touch on the shifter and more faith that it was lined up for third instead of first, and as I get a better feel for where everything is with that minimal space on the shifter, my confidence in being able to put it in the gear I need has increased.

Last weekend I got up retardedly early on Saturday, excited because my kit from Zaino had arrived that week and the weather was nice enough to shine up the car. Zaino is a relatively high-end car polish line, claiming show-car-quality and using a different formula than regular caranuba-based waxes. Caranuba doesn’t suck, but Zaino is a non-abrasive prep coat and a non-wax-based top polish that I’ve seen used before on another black car and looks fantastic and wears for months. It’s kind of like putting a coat of clear nail polish on your car - it’s not going to buff out the little scratches and swirl marks, but filling them in and increasing the ‘depth’ of the overall reflection off the car makes them very difficult to see.

I was VERY impressed with the way it hides those spiderwebby circle lines that black cars typically get and you can see when looking at a light reflection off the surface. It’s a long process to do but the end result looks great even with a coat of pollen now powdering it, looks newer than when I bought it. The sore muscles were all the more worth it when I had another clean black car park by me at work, and the side-by-side difference of how much darker/’more black’ mine appeared under the shine was noticeable. The basic kit from Zaino is borderline expensive for car detail product, but the amount in it will easily do a car for over a year - once you’ve gone through the first multi-layer work, maintenance is washing the car and re-applying the top coat whenever you want it clean, and people report the original shine lasting up to 6months on their cars. I’ve seen it last on a black car through a Chicago summer myself, at least.

And finally, the little WoW priest is almost level 52. She definitely needs some gear upgrades but we’re about to hit BC content which should fix some of that! I’m also enjoying puttering around levelling profession skills - Alchemy and Herbalism at 295+ (just a couple points to 300, I need to get my cap boosted), cooking at 290, fishing at 225 (zzzz), First Aid somewhere up there. I tried the Stranglethorn Fishing competition on last Sunday for the first time, and had 12 fishes to go when the winner was announced - doh. FAIL.

There needs to be more drinks and pool. And someone should have a BBQ, I hear it’s really nice out.