1424*gouging hole in head with repeated strikes*

[evile]

 

May 15, 2003

 

 

Sweetie to me:
Remember the diesel Vanagon camper in Indiana that was on ebay, then
got pulled? I'd fired off a "Hey! What happened?" email that day,
and I actually got a response. It turns out that they didn't think
they'd get what they wanted for it, but what they want for it was
less than what my maximum bid would have been. So I sent the guy a
deposit. :-/ Please don't be too mad. You know I want to sell the
blue trooper.

Anyway, here's the pictures:

http://www.freaks.net/~mack/van/

Love you,

Sweetie

xoxoxo

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my reply:
1. Please sell the blue trooper ASAP.

1A. Is it possible that one of your friends has driveway space for
one of your cars if you have the blue trooper & the vanagon at the
same time? I don't want a car out in the street.

2. How are you going to get this vanagon from IN to TX?

2A. I will be avail. for some kind of insane road trip on mem. day
weekend, if that's what needs to be done.
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Sweetie:
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:04:25AM -0500, Haynes, evile writes:

> 1. Please sell the blue trooper ASAP.

You know I want to. I figure that if I can't sell it in two months
for
cash (preferable), then it could go to Goodwill or the Slavenation
Army
for the tax deduction.

> 1A. Is it possible that one of your friends has driveway space for

one of

> your cars if you have the blue trooper & the vanagon at the same

time? I

> don't want a car out in the street.

It's possible. Or, I could pay to put it on the corner there at
lamar and
barton springs. Or, I could see if there are any consignment places
around.

> 2. How are you going to get this vanagon from IN to TX?

Flat towing with a tow bar.

> 2A. I will be avail. for some kind of insane road trip on mem. day

weekend,

> if that's what needs to be done.

I was thinking of doing it as early as this weekend.

me:
Okeydoke. It's your $. Drive careful. I am trying not to be mad. I
love you, even when I am mad. I hope you know that... :)

Sweetie:
I know. Thank you. I love you even when you're mad at me too. :)
Just think how nice it will be to go to, say, TRF and not have to set
up a tent, the stove, etc. Just park, pop the top and make sure the
propane is full.

me:
Can you make me a sign with the Blue Trooper for me to have put up on
the bulletin boards here at work? Preferably with photo?

Sweetie:
Sure! That would rule.



Me to J-Law:
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 09:36:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Resolved:

I'll be glad to ask e. & it will be nice to get
into 'her' world for a bit, in a good way rather than
being bored to death listening to her and her friends
talk about various races & trails.

Sweetie is on the Bad List today: he bought a vanagon.
Without selling the blue trooper first, and without
asking my opinion...JUST like when he bought the
damned Ghia & left me to entertain festive & Dave all
weekend by myself. I really *was* over that...but it
is really hard to let bygones be bygones, when someone
does the EXACT FRICKEN THING to you AGAIN!!! The
opposite side of the "I forgive you" coin is "It won't
happen again"...Or at least that's the impression I
had.

Anyway, here's a picture of the newest addition to our
ghetto-ass driveway:
http://www.freaks.net/~mack/van/ek_11.jpg

Comments

1425Re: *gouging hole in head with repeated strikes*

[evile]

May 15, 2003


evile: I got phone duty, so I'm done at 3:30 today :)

Mack: Oh! Cool

evile: yup :) Maybe I can nap & feel like doing something later.

Mack: It's thursday, y'know.

evile: Yup.

Mack: The shitty adhesive I bought didn't work. Does E6000 hold up
to outside heat?

evile: e6000 doesn't hold up, period. It's crap.

Mack: Hrm.

evile: I have some other stuff on the wall, jewel bond or something
like that. Well, it should be on the wall if I puti t back where it
belongs. By the solder on teh back wall of my wk rm.

Mack: I held my imark's outside mirror glass on with gasket maker
once. I wonder if that would work.

Mack: SOLDER!
Mack: That makes me think. Maybe I can use JB weld.

evile: possibly.

Mack: Seems to be working for the moon mirror

evile: yup. No outdoor conditions, but lotso f humidity.

evile: I really *was* over the 'other woman' mem-day-weekend-with-the-
daves thing. But it's hard to let bygones be when someone does the
EXACT SAME THING to you AGAIN... It makes me feel very disrespected
by you. I am sorry....I will try not to be ugly, but I really feel
like you're just going to do what you want to do and not care about
how I feel.

Mack: What do you want me to do?
Mack: I'm sorry
Mack: It was really really hard to tell you.

evile: Why should I keep forgiving you when my understanding is "I'm
sorry" and "I forgive you" are followed by "This won't happen
again"...but with you, that last part just doesn't happen? You keep
doing whatever you want and I keep having to be mad and get over it.
evile: I know you wanted a van. I know you wanted a diesel. I figured
you'd get one at some point, but how hard would it have been to
say "I'm thinking of negotiating for that bus that got unlisted on
ebay" BEFORE you did it. YOu don't give me any place to go when you
just present tehse 'done deals'... I either have to accept it and go
on, or ??what? No options for me. Your way or the highway.

Mack: I'm sorry. I jumped on it because they're so hard to find.
Would you feel any different if I had already sold the blue trooper?

evile: If you'd told me beforehand, we could have at least pretended
I had some input.
evile: We need to bust our asses to get the blue trooper out of the
driveway.
evile: Preferably before the Van is here so we don't have ghetto ass
house more than absolutely necessary. Plus we have seen 2 parked cars
on our street get hit.

Mack: True. One twice, even.
Mack: I'm no good at signals.

evile: I want to see a Very Big Effort to get that Blue Trooper
sold. Please.

Mack: I thought "I want a grease car" and "I'm sure g/stepdad would love
to see you" were a green light. :(

evile: That was sort of 'theoretical, piei n the sky' not "I'm
leaving tomorrow to get a car"...
evile: Like I say I want a new bed or new flooring for the kitchen,
but I'm not going to go out and have that done without ASKING you
first.
evile: How would you feel to come home to a gas stove if I hadn't
showed it to you, said I was getting it, etc. I mean, yeah, you know
I WANT one, but I have not actually gone otu and bought it without
telling you...Does that make ANY sense or am I being sillY?

Mack: Honestly, I probably wouldn't mind that particular example.

evile: When I had made no arrangement to get rid of the old one so we
now have a ghetto-ass old stove sitting out in the yard or whatever?
evile: That would be OK with you?

Mack: As long as the ghetto-ass thing wasn't permanant.
Mack: I could just donate the blue trooper to goodwill right away if
you really really wanted me to.

evile: Be sure and make it my fault that you didn't make $ off your
hard work to fix it up...

Mack: No... I'd still make $, just not right away.

evile: I didn't say that. Please try to sell the Blue Trooper first.
But put a definite time limit on how long you will try before you
donate it. And then stick with it. And I really don't want cars in
the street in front of our house, so please try & find a way for that
not to happen.

Mack: I told you. Two months is the donation threshold.

evile: two months from when? Date?

Mack: From when it goes on sale.

evile: And when will that be?

Mack: ASAP
Mack: Either now or when I get back.

evile: Please do what you can to insert firm dates into this
equation.

Mack: I don't want to put you in the position to answer the door to
non-english-speakers asking about el camion se vende

Mack: So I guess when I get back.

evile: I want a for sale sign to put in my building tomorrow.

Mack: Okay.

evile: One of these days Iwill get used to the idea that I dont'
count and my opinions dont' matter and you are gonna do wahtever you
want. I am trying...

Mack: Now you're just trying to push my bottons.
Mack: buttons

evile: Well, what am I supposed to think? Do this to me once, I get
over it, and then do it to me again and expect me to just keep being
OK with it?
evile: So I either have to be OK with you doing whatever you want and
not discussing or asking me my opinion first, or I have to ? what?
die? leave? what are my options?

Mack: You know, you can still say no, and I'm only out a couple
hundred bucks.

evile: And then you can be mad at me for being so unreasonable and
awful. What would have been so hard about telling me your plans
before shelling out the deposit? What would have been so hard about
getting the blue trooper sold as soon as you had it fixed up?
evile: I will get over being mad. you will get what you want. win
win. until you do this to me again.

Mack: 1) I was afraid of what your reaction would be. 2) I'm lazy
2a) I'm a perfectionist.

evile: I'm sorry

Mack: No, I'M sorry. I should've just let it go by and sold the blue
trooper, THEN started looking again. I'm sure one will pop up around
here somewhere after I bring it home.

evile: water under the bridge. Please make me a for sale sign that I
can post at work, with whatever contact info (phone, email, whatever)
you want people to use. I will do what I can to get the blue trooper
out of teh way for the van to come home.
evile: I can always do the UB thing and call it "My" van...
evile: You could pretend it was my birthday present and let me
decorate it like a harem...

Mack: Or I could just throw a motor in it, and turn around and sell
it for a 200% profit.

evile: g/stepdad really will enjoy a visit (as long as you give him a
little advance notice & dont' just show up on the doorstep)

Mack: I *KNOW* someopne will buy it.

evile: It's your Van & your $.
evile: Maybe when my lease is out, I'll grab the van & call it 'mine'
anyway... :P

Mack: I wouldn't have a problem with that at all.

evile: Okay then. History is rewritten. Sweetie makes Heroic Journey
to get E a Birthday Present. :)

Mack: I might even sell the maroon trooper, too. Who knows.
Mack: Heck, it might not even make it back.
Mack: But that's why I got AAA

evile: They're yours to sell. *fingers crossed for your safe trip*

evile: Apropos of nothing, but humorous:
http://userpic.livejournal.com/4200437/507237

Mack: Apropos of nothing indeed.

evile: just came across it in the childfree msg. boards. :P

evile: So tell me how this weekend is going to work; I may need to
find a nickiesitter for Sat.

Mack: I wonder if that's something that someone made or if they
grabbed it from Fox's site.

evile: I dunno. These LJ people are clever like that.

evile: I love you, my sweetie. It will be OK.

Mack: I love you too, my sweetie. I've been trying more and more not
to be my selfish uh.. self. But I guess it isn't working. :(

evile: Don't give up; I appreciate you trying. We will be OK. I'm
selfish too, sometimes.

Mack: You know, if you fuck up making biodiesel, you end up making
soap.

evile: .not a good thing to have in a car engine, but possible
novelty item: "Soap shaped like the inside of my engine!"