Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 18:45:15
(8/29) Friday
Ah! It's nearly the end
of the month and what do I have to look forward to? School.
Another crappy week of work in two days. My
birthday. And most importantly, a need to get my licence plates
and driver's licence renewed before I am thrown in jail and
called a heretic or some silly nonsense like
that.![:v]](f-happy.gif){kind=small}
But, since I opted instead to doodle around with my
computers (and my sister's computer) I wasted the entire day.
(YES!) The only thing left is to help my sister pick
up her car with a broken water pump and go home. Right?
Wrong... it's toy run time!!!
" Cheetor, Maximi-- oops. Did that already. " --Cheetor; Equal Measures
My first stop is Toys R Us. And
once again, it's the same dull stuff... I do however
spot a set of the Mutant Armor (?) X-Men; I pass on a second
astral Gummy Xavier and grab an AOA head Iceman for a buddy of
mine that lives in Urbana, Ohio. Best of all, these are on
$3.00 clearance. I dig through and find one with the
Thanos Power-blast card as an extra
bonus.
I'm getting ready to leave, and
I am staring at the two current Mighty Morphin Power Rangers:Turbo
mechs. The Rescue Zord is at least redeemable in that the
individual components form robots as well... but the original
one does not... I go against my better judgment and
buy these two anyway, (rants/reviews below) and get the hell
out of here. I did take a few moments to scan for Speed
Racer at all three of my usual stops and come up empty...
kinda sucks
really.
Johnny's Toys is my next stop and
they have STAR WARS! I spot the industrial '4-Lom droid'
on a mangled card. I look at the back, smile a bit and
put it back as I give silent thanks that I do not collect this
stuff... my condolences to those of you who
do.![/;v]](f-slywnk.gif){kind=small}
I find (after wondering where it
was) the Jurassic Park Lost World endcap and decide to break
down and buy the one item I wanted from this line -- The 'raptor.
I now have a happy snapping "Dinobot clone" -- Refer
to: Beast Wars; Double Dinobot. This was more than I really
wanted to pay for a whim-type buy, but he was disappearing
awfully quick and didn't want to miss out on this
one.
(8/30) Saturday
Since I was an idiot and stayed
up too late the previous night installing software and I wanted
to get up early and attempt to tape the premiere of 'Sam &
Max: Freelance Police' I got up at the ungawdly Saturday morning
hour of 7am. Not only was I disappointed that the show
wasn't on, I was incredibly tired. (Hex needs a minimum of 7+
hours of sleep or he experiences unwanted shutdowns, spaceyness,
and occasional nervous system glitches.)
My sister insists that I hurry up and get cleaned up so I can deal
with my licence stuff as early as possible, so I don't have to
spend the whole day in line. After determining that
we were going to be denied our freelance police, I cleaned
up and we got out the door to pick up a snack and some coffee.
We both get a free sample slice of bread and coffee and
chow that down before I go stand in line at the
DMV.
When I got there, the line was fairly long... it went around a small bend and curled right to the door. I realized as the line crept forward, that I arrived just in time to beat the heavy rush. The line then went around the room totally and two folks pressed themselves against the glass door in an unbecoming fashion. My sister enjoyed mocking me, but
" Hurry, or we'll miss our deaths! " --Transformers: the Movie Mystery Science Theatre 3000 version
The DMV folks being no fools (all
4 of them) decide to have one of the workers ask everyone
what they are here for and tell them what they need in order
to get it. (I assume that is so they may then panic,
step out of line and shorten it for those who were more
prepared.) Too bad I was bordering on
panicing. It appears that to get my licence renewed, I needed
my social security card or some other ID badge that had such
info on it... except -- I misplaced my SS card... I know were
it is, but I don't know were the wallet I put it in is
at.
I did on the other hand, have my work badge
(with my glorious picture on it), my about to expire registration
which had my name and SS# on it, and my about to expire drivers
licence... I was prepared to argue that with the following
three items a dead moose could probably deduce that I was...
well...
me.
Other funny things I found in the DMV... The DMV is not without entertainment -- provided you know what your'e looking for... I found it amusing that one lady decided that she had to bring her yap-yap dog in with her. Another unique sight was the two goth/rave style women standing in line... one apparently was going for that 'I'm a vampire' look. Yes, I enjoy watching the various strangers and their behavior on occasion, anything to keep me from screaming at the DMV attendants that they must be on valium because I saw a three toed sloth with a missing leg just blur past the attendant in the back.
We go back home and I just lay around for a bit until our friend shows up so we can go out and shop... I'd much rather lay down and sleep, but the prospect sounds pretty good really. He shows up, he drives -- and badly... his tailgating and constant velocity changes make a poor combination.
" Hey Sam, you mind if I drive? " --Max
" As long as you don't mind me clawing at the dashboard and screaming like a cheerleader. " --Sam
We hup over to Northgate Mall, where our bud has to pay on some kind of standing bill with a jeweler or something. I make a line to KayBee and poke around for a bit... And score a Superman Animated Darkseid. (YES!) <dance of joy> Naomi and Kelly finally show up and we poke around some more and find nothing of interest. Kelly grabs a couple of Matsio die-cast planes. We dig through the discount software at Babbages and KayBee and found, nothing. I declare, even the cheesy stuff has been having slim pickings.