searching with my good eye closed

well, i am not watching satellite dish tv right now, and i am not at all happy. the dudes got here, walked around a bit, and then told us they couldn’t install it because they would have to drill through the wall and they aren’t allowed to do that. it would have been great if they could just say that over the damn phone instead of setting an install date, coming out, and then deciding it couldn’t be done. so that deal fell through.

then i called directv and they said they could just use the existing cable wiring to set it up, which is what i thought dish network would do. but i’m thinking now that it would be better to just get cable tv and stop messing with satellite. i love satellite, and if i ever own my own home, it will be all i ever have. so i’m going to call tomorrow and cancel it. i hate being so indecisive. i love it. no, i hate it.

you want some good news, eh? yeah, eh? kids in the hall always makes me feel a little canadian. anyway, the good news is that i am now a certified arizona citizen. i got my license and all that good stuff. my car passed the emissions test. they didn’t even put the vacuum hose under the hood or anything like i saw in all the pictures. the guy just attached a code reader under the dashboard and turned the car on. it was pretty sweet. i think they did something to my gas cap too, because it was kinda loose when i went to fill up later in the day.

the license part was really cool. they took my picture and in 2.5 minutes i got my card. and it doesn’t expire until 2046! i’ll be an old man by then. geez. i may not even be in this state anymore. a lot can happen in 41 years. i might have a family, a nice car, a modest house in a modest neighborhood, and a satellite dish on the roof of that house. or i might even be dead. that would be cool.

see, i’m aware of my mortality, but it doesn’t bother me like it does most people. i look at it as the next great adventure. whether i’m burning in eternal damnation or basking in the golden rays of nirvana, i’ll just be happy to try something new. my hope is that i can stick around here long enough to exhaust all the infinite possibilities on this planet.

i’d love to see artificial intelligence take over and show us humans the errors of our ways. and i don’t mean like how movies always do it, with the machines killing everyone or enslaving humanity. i just mean like when machines become self aware and show us all the obvious solutions to our problems. “dude, you guys should just stop fighting.” i hope the machines have keanu reeves’ voice. it makes sense if you think about it.