The 4th of July.
Sigh. Yup it is the 4th of July.
Not being American that does mean much to me, it is just another day. To some American’s it means a lot but to most I think it is just an excuse to set off fireworks and take a day off of work. To me it means that a lot of stuff I have/am trying to do is getting delayed.
I ordered three packages last week from different places… one of them showed up nice and quickly but the others now are going to be languishing somewhere for two more days and then I might get them on Tuesday. I wouldn’t mind but one of them has Liquid Latex in it and I don’t know how that will fare in the desert heat… I say that because according to tracking it was loaded onto a truck at 5am yesterday down in L.A. presumably to make the final leg up to the Lancaster/Palmdale depot for delivery… only as of last night there was no arrival scan. So does that mean that it never made it? Is it lost? Is it going to be sitting in a truck baking for three days? Did it get taken inside to a nice air conditioned local sorting facility and just not get scanned yet? Sometimes it sucks to be a writer because all I can do is it here and contemplate a million possibilities.
Life is going okay. not great. I have been trying to work on the Howcast video stuff. I ordered some chemicals I am going to need to do a second Video that I requested and was given, that wasn’t one of the packages by the way so there is another one stuck in limbo because everyone needs to take Monday off because the holiday falls on a Sunday and Heaven forbid they just combine it into one.
Anyway. I did some tests with my camera and I am fairly sure that the only thing “Wrong” with my camera is that the firewire port is screwed. I am fairly confident that the tapes are all fine and it is shooting okay I just don’t have a way of getting the footage digitized. I have been going around and trying to find the analogue capture device I KNOW that I have, but I can’t find it. it has to be at least the third if not fourth one I have bought. Why do I keep loosing these things!?! Still I am home now, if/when I get another one I shouldn’t lose it (Famous last words).
I have been waking up early the last few days. A couple of times, like today, I have gotten up and gone outside to pull weeds while it was still cool. The front yard is looking much better, but I still have a bunch to do in the back. I want/need to try and get that done by the 12th or 13th because that is when the meter reader is due and I want to make sure they cant say any crap about everything being overgrown.
Another thing slowed down by the 4th of July is money, we haven’t gotten our money from the government yet and come Tuesday it will be the last day to pay our rent without it being late. Hopefully it will get here on time. Who knows about everything else that needs to be paid… Mortgage, car payment etc… we can’t even sell our old car because we owe back registration on it. right now that seems to be the name of the game, we need money to make money. It we had $500 we could get that cleared up and sell the car (Maybe, if someone is willing to buy it). If I had another $500 I could get my camera fixed and it would be a lot easier/quicker/better for me to shoot videos and make money that way. another way to look at it is that because we don’t have money… it is costing us money because we are constantly paying late fees. By not having money we are actively losing money. sigh. That would be a very depressing thought if I wasn’t already depressed enough.
Anyway. It is 7:30 and I am still tired, I didn’t get enough sleep. even if I went back to bed I couldn’t get back to sleep so I might as well just try to do something productive. If only there was something that I could do to actually make some money.