I have now wasted over an hour cruising the internet reading about what I think my next car will be. Honda Civic Type R. They are somewhat hard to get ahold of in the real world, at least without getting stuck paying a “dealer pack”. Dealer pick is Latin for bullshit. My local dealer packs on $5K to the price and they use MSRP (also bullshit) as the starting price. It can be tough buying a car. When I bought my Magnum SRT, a few years back, I was presented with dealer packs of up to $15K on the car. Yikes. I had to go 1200 miles out to Idaho to get a sensible price. This is not available on this car. I will keep working on the price via email with the sales manager. I know him well. I need to start hammering on him just a tad harder. Car is not on the lot yet.
Morning duties took no time.
Next stop, the post office. Emily had spent the entirety of yesterday sewing three advent calendars. They are beautiful, like her. The one I am mailing out is for Michael and Carly who are living down in Camarillo. This is the first Christmas that Michael will not be home with us. Sad day but the damn kid grew up. I warned him but he did not listen. Since he isn’t home, we sent a little bit of home to him via the advent and of course, advent gifts.
The shipping process of said advent was insane. I had to buy a box and bubble wrap at the PO. Went to the car to pack it up. Realized, my tape was not in the car. Back in the PO and buy tape. Back to car and engineer a packing job, basically in the parking lot. Total cost, $24 and a half hour of my life. But done. Marika will be local so we can get hers to her here. She is watching the animals while we are gone.
I was going to do a couple other things before work but shipment took to long. So I went to work.
I have really only one job to do. Finish company setup so I will be able to generate checks and wires once I receive $427K this week. Money in, money out, but need to be set up. Banks are a pain, I have to put wire info in to system one day or more before I can wire it out. I hate banks.
Had to update a years accounting for them to get set as well. Took all day. I also finished two tax returns so I can get paid something while I am gone. For some reason I still want to keep the doors open.
I have to get cash for the trip. I received a check today and I intended on cashing it. One problem. Bank closes early and I did not make it on time. So, I tried the ATM. MY BRANCH, it turns out, does not have one. So I drove to another branch. They have one but I could not figure out how much I was allowed. I tried two different amounts and the ATM rejected me and kicked my card and the screen message was “you have exceeded your daily limit”. Since I got zero I guess my limit is same. I put the card back in the ATM and got $500. And I tried again and zero. Maybe you can see I never use the ATM? I don’t.
After that I went to the pharmacy for Emily. Hers was finally ready after she called a third time today and ripped the lame ass doctor a new one. What a moron. But I got the drugs. Ran into my friend Bard there. Her husband is passing a kidney stone at present. She came for painkillers.
Off to carniceria for dinner. Mexican Monday. The assholes closed fifteen minutes early. So I went to the pet store. For food. No, not for us, for the poodle. Then went across the street for food for dinner, nothing special.
Finally, home. Ate dinner. Finished hanging and filling out advent calendar. Finished off the packing. Charged the electronics. Fed the dogs. And cats. Put out the garbage. It’s a damn busy evening.
Time for bed. About time, I should say. A little reading and done.