So Lauren and I wanted to do some errands today. We opened a checking and savings account, we unloaded some of the water bottles for the church thing from the Beamer (which was so loaded it was riding on the axle yesterday) and we went to drop some stuff off at goodwill. The goodwill closest to our house is a goodwill outlet. Just seeing a Goodwill Outlet sign amused me, but what was to follow amused me much much more. The sign said, parking around back. So we pull around to a seedy back parking lot and go in a door that opened up to a bunch of piles of crap, and some loading dock style sorting belts. There were lots of freaking looking people from all across the ethnic board in that place. We had our good ol’ white trash, which I can spot form a million miles away anymore, and we had black, middle eastern Muslims, a few Asians, and some Latino people in there. All rummaging crazily through this pile of crap like it was on blue light special on Christmas eve or something. They are just tossing crap on the ground, there are piles and piles of nasty looking shoes, and some magazines and books. I get amused by the fact that there is a “Playgirl magazine” in one of the piles and point it out to Lauren, who is of course disgusted, but then I see one open to some naked guys, and I’m all “Hey, there is an open one.” Lauren only half heard me so she looked to where I was pointing and exclaims “EWWW, gross, I don’t want to see that, why would you point that out.” and my response was simply, “did you hear the noise you made?”
Good times, I laughed at that for a while, that place was amusing in a scary sort of way….Lauren was just scared.
It turns out that you can’t drop off stuff there, so we followed a check-out ladies barely understandable directions to another place that was much much nicer looking, and they were really cool when we dropped stuff off, and we went inside to look at the stuff they had, and we found a couple of nice coffee tables that we liked and they were about 13 dollars a piece. Which is about 50 to 100 dollars cheaper than anything relatively close to as nice looking as these. So we bought one of them, decided not to get the couch because we have a full sized couch and need a love-seat, not another giant couch. And now I am going to ask Jeff if I can borrow his truck to go get it in a while.
That was my adventure for the day, besides that, I posted my resume to monster dot com, and I am sending a copy to one of Dan’s contacts at IBM soon. Also, tonight I’m going to ask Caleb for a copy of his list of temp engineering places and start calling them.
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