CUBEsMIND

Well I actually wasn't feeling well the other day so I didn't get much done. Had a headache by the end of the day, and the next morning as the headache slowly wormed it's way out a slight feeling of nausea poured into my trachea. Basically anytime I stood and moved around the house I'd feel slightly dizzy and an uncomfortable lump at the base of my neck, that was just dying to pull bile from my stomach.

It took me like an hour on the couch before I forced myself to quickly get up and make a couple of poached eggs with a dash of tobasco sauce. I wasn't sure if they would sit right or not, but amazingly enough they did the trick and everything started to settle down.

After a bit I got myself up and luckily there was some broth in the cupboard, for real always keep some kind of broth around just for days like this! I took that mixed it with some chopped onions, garlic, potatoes, carrots, celery, and broccoli. Seasoned it a bit and let it simmer for like 45 minutes, and then just had a bowl of that like every hour and half. By the end of the night I was feeling good again. I do feel like my body is still fighting something though, and it's kind of annoying.

Anyways, wokeup today and focused on getting everything in the van. I had ordered a bunch of stuff and was going through some things around my parents house, mostly cleaning up and had some items in boxes that I was planning on putting in the van. So I basically put all that in the van and then just sat in there with the doors closed and my heating system going, and started to go through everything. That seems to be the best way for me, is to like have everything in the room I'm in and just start spreading eveyrthing out. I need to see it all so I can figure out what I do and don't need. Then just started to figure out where everything needed to go in the van.

Everything is now stowed and I believe I've got everything taken care of. I had to move some web files from an old laptop to this one, mostly it's stuff for my personal website, so that I can start improving on it again. I think everything is good though. I just need to make one more quick stop at the storage unit to drop off a couple of things and then I'm good to go.

I was planning on leaving tonight, but at this point I'm thinking why not just leave first thing in the morning after a shower, because honestly showering is unfortunately going to turn into a more of a luxury on the road. Don't get me wrong I'm going to look into some things like truck stops or campgrounds, but it's probably going to be more of a once every other or every third day kind of thing. My brother did show me some cool shower ideas that are just built with PVC pipe and are mounted on the roof, but don't really have time for all that right now.

Remember how I said the Side Door was almost fixed, well it lied to me. The next day I went outside to get some things organized and the door stopped working again. Not sure exactly what happened. Everything was still connected, but it just wouldn't open again.

We looked at it again, and were thinking the cables might have got switched around. So we spent maybe thirty minutes on it then just kind of gave up, mostly because we couldn't get the door to just open to work on it, partly because it was colder, maybe also because my brother was going to have a late shift, but most definitely because we just didn't want to work on it again.

Made a few calls and only one place would have time to work on it the next day, as opposed to the other places that didn't have openings for another week or so.

It took them almost all day to get it done, well the door and an oil change, but at least it opens from the inside again. Sadly it only opens from the inside and that alone cost me like 80 bucks, which was only really for the man power since I had bought the parts and fixed the cables. But again it's better than it not being able to open at all, so got to look at the plus side.

I believe someone mentioned that for the outside it might actually be the door handle busted, not just the cable, so if that's true it will take longer and probably cost more to get fixed. So that's definitely not going to get fixed before I go. Once again, the positive side, is that I don't have to worry if I've locked that door or not because not only does the handle not work but the cable isn't connected.

Parts to fix the side door, 13.90$. Time spent with my brother fixing the Side Door, price...a lot! A lot of cold hours outside!!

Nawh, but it wasn't actually that bad. Glad my brother has more determination in fixing things than I do. Whenever he helps me save some money by fixing car stuff I'm thankful. After about two hours, I'm usually to the point of, "How about we just cram it all back in the door and I'll just pay to have them finish it?" My brother won't stand for that, and we continue into all hours of the day until we get it working. Which for me wouldn't be so bad if it was warmer, but I waited too long to get this stuff knocked out, so cold I must endure!!

I do start to understand why it costs so much to fix things that are relatively simple, and it's mostly because manufacturers make it a pain in the butt to get into the spaces where you need to reach. We had to take things off the door, that I don't feel we should have needed to.

We probably spent about three hours working on it, and got a good bit done but we need to finish it up today. So I can at least open the door from the inside now, just have to fix something with the outter handle so that I can open it from the outside. I'm guessing we are about 70% done, but I'm already feeling 100% better about it now!

Hopefully we can get it completely fixed before I have to go, I still got about four days left, so I'm feeling good about the progress.

Not your run-of-the-mill zombie flick. This had more of a psychological cabin fever kind of vibe. You see maybe a half dozen zombies in the whole thing. The movie is more about a couple stuck in their apartment and how they are dealing with the passage of time and their relationship, as they wait to be rescued.

I liked the acting and the drama that was involved, which was pretty much what the movie was about. So if you're looking for scense of people being devoured or zombie skulls being smashed in, then this isn't the zombie film for you. If you are into more of the psychological effect of an outbreak occuring and what it would be like if you stayed indoors trying to wait it out, then you may enjoy this one. It's just showing the other side of the outbreak.

Well I didn't hate the movie, but really it just wasn't close to as strong as the first one. Story, music, comedy, etc. was just kind of okay. I started to get worried at the very beginning, when it was less then 30minutes in and they already had three songs, non of which really stood out. Honestly none of the songs were memorable to me.

Story was just kind of...well standard. It was like they just took a Bending page from Avatar, and went with that. I don't know if her being the "fifth element" was supposed to be a twist, but it was kind of obvious. Where in the first movie that prince being a bad guy was a pretty solid twist, because he never showed his hand. I think my big poo-poo about her being the center of these elements, was that ice is just a property of water...so...yeah, like why would she be at the center of the elements but only control one state of one of the elements. I guess we could say that a new person takes over that central role every, well they are in olden times, so lets be generous and say every 60 years a new "custodian" comes along, and that person randomly gets control of one of the properties of one element. I don't know, maybe I missed something by the time the movie got to that point, because I was just kind of getting bored.

The movie was just to simple, it felt more like a kids movie, whereas the first one had more complexity to the story and felt more mature.

As for comedy, the funniest thing that Olaf did was reinact the first movie. They had him sing a song at one point, and I was just sitting there in a state of confusion as to why the "goofy" character was singing about getting older. Overall the funny parts just made me smile, but not really laugh.

The couple of things I don't want to mention, because they may be spoilers to some people, just didn't really feel like there was any reason for them. Like they didn't really get into exlpanations of things, so there was not much depth to a lot of the scenarios.

So it was Friday(the seventh) of this month that I had planned as my last day at my current job. I feel like I've saved up enough and honestly it just felt it was time to get going with this whole trip thing.

Well I have been busy building and programming, but that is no real excuse to not post anything for this long! Well today seemed like as good a day as any to start working on my posts and this site again, so here we are.

This past week has just been me finishing up a couple of small things with the van and of course cleaning up my parents' house before I set out. It's been an interesting couple of days.

Without a job I just go to sleep when I feel tired, which is always what I wanted. One day it was like nine, another day it was like ten, the other night it was like eight. When I had a job it was stressful to goto sleep, as odd as that sounds. I was always watching the clock, because I knew if I didn't get enough sleep I would be forced to feel crappy all day, and even worse treat people crappy. Now without a job I'm not scrambling to try and utilize the few hours after work, which I always thought I wasted not matter what I did, or even worse laying in bed trying to goto sleep when I'm not actually tired.

I haven't been rushing around or anything, just made a list of things to do and been knocking things off one after another. It just kind of hit me this morning, well not so much the feeling of calm, but that I was being very calm and collected...if that makes any sense.

I think the simple act of not feeling like I'm constantly rushing with the clock ticking on my free time, is well making it easier to relax and just get done what I need to get done. I no longer need to count or track the hours, and so far it's like this huge weight off me that I...well never knew was as heavy as it was.

I'm curious if this feeling will persist and the ability to calmly approach various tasks will continue to increase, or if this is just a temporary effect and the dreaded task list will start to get in my head once again. I hope that you come back to check on my progress, this could be an uplifting experience/experiment.