Jun28

A clean car is a happy driver

June 28th, 2009 | by EverGreen

It’s easy to overlook the benefits of the little things in life.

Specifically, there exists an entire class of “creature comforts” which provide a degree of comfort and a sense of ‘at-ease’ that is greater than the amount of effort required to achieve said creature comfort. Pertaining to the title of this post, before going on vacation to Monterey for a couple days I took the liberty of washing my car both inside and out. I had been putting it off for some time and as a result, (pure laziness on my part,) my 2008 Corolla had accumulated some noticeable amount of trash within and an unsubtle layer of dirt without.

With a freshly clean car at my disposal, my vacation was already off to a happy start. Just knowing my vehicle looked nice was enough to put a smile on my face as I pulled out of the driveway on my way to the coast. I had cupholders free! There was room in the back seat for luggage! I could even see out the front windshield and side mirrors, they were so clean!

Overall, it didn’t take very long to get my car cleaned up, despite my best efforts to procrastinate for months on end. Now, I can take friends for a ride, drive my fianceé to a nice restaurant, or just better enjoy the ride to work in the morning, all thanks to what amounted to an hour and a half of automotive TLC.

It’s amazing how much comfort and happiness one can get out of simply taking care of a few things.

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Jun23

Paint me a vacation

June 23rd, 2009 | by EverGreen

So my computer is temporarily out of commission on account of me having to paint my office. As I type this on my fianceé’s netbook (which is SOOOO awesome, by the way) my computer sits powerless and disassembled on my living room floor. Of course, since I kinda need my computer to finish and publish comics, there will sadly be no comic coming out this Wednesday.

Why don’t I just finish painting tomorrow and hook my compy back up, you say? Well, my eager friends, I’ll be on a much-needed vacation with my lovely future wife and thus will be very much occupied for the next few days.

Oh don’t worry, you should be getting your Sunday fix on schedule. In the meanwhile though, try having some summer fun of your own and I’ll see you all in a few days.

Hasta la bye-bye

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Jun20

Delightful Dad’s Day

June 20th, 2009 | by EverGreen

Are you going to remember to call your father tomorrow?

I consider myself lucky in that I get to spend quality time with my dad (and the rest of the family) tomorrow morning. In fact, this entire weekend is turning out to be some good quality family time. Granted, it’s been seriously stressful trying to get the house cleaned up in preparation for my folks staying over, but it needed to be done anyway and if anything having my parents spend the night was a great motivator to finally get all that laundry taken care of. Now that most of it is finished (never mind that it should’ve been done a long time ago) I think we can relax just a bit – at least until I have to start painting the last two bedrooms on Monday.

But forget that I’ve actually got more work to do – what’s in store for Sunday? Well, taking my dad out to brunch for starters. After that I plan to relax a bit, and by ‘relax’ I mean ‘do Sunday’s comic’. Yeah, it’s been a long day for everyone so we’ll just go ahead and finish up the comic tomorrow afternoon it looks like.

Ok, Ok, what about dads, right? Well, I don’t know about your dad, but my old man likes Good and Plenty’s and mixed nuts – which is exactly what he’s getting from me. I figure that he doesn’t need another tie, and if he did I would just give him back the tie I borrowed from him last year. He also doesn’t need another plastic animal that poops jellybeans, though I know he gets a kick out of them much to my mother’s chagrin. He also doesn’t need the latest Tiger Woods game because I know his computer can’t keep up with them anymore, and I’m not about to spring for an Xbox 360 because, well, I don’t exactly have that kind of disposable income.

So what did you get your dad for his big day? Did you do anything special? I want to know!

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