It's bothered me all week and now quite suddenly don't give a crap. Things are actually pretty nice. This economic collapse has all kinds of upsides. Traffic is actually lighter, customer service experiences at stores have been great and in the nervousness of the times my friends have made a special effort to stay close and stay in touch. It's nice. Yes, I occasionally have to work late, even a weekends on projects and most of my vacation was annoyingly peppered with thinking about and managing the finish of some illustrations. The payback was I got to work with an amazingly talented artist in Berlin who I've wanted to work with for a long while and he did a fantastic job with the project. I just printed them out and sat there on the floor with them feeling all glow-ey about the whole thing in spite of some pesky nitpicks in the background. When that satisfaction goes away, I guess I'll be jaded--but I'm not--and don't have a coherent strategy to get jaded and all cynical. A person needs a plan to get disingenuous because you don't start out that way and only sheer stupidness can make a person deeply angry. Or mean. Mean comes from fear. Being either is not worth the effort and frankly is a kind of poison that the New Testament more or less warns us off of but since most Christians have little idea about any of that a person needs to just sort of avoid most of them. How did I take that turn?
On another note, having gone to the auto show made me feel bad that I have only driven basic cars ever in my life and at the moment my Jeep is 4 years old and the floor mats, no matter what I do are permanently filthy. They just make you want that new car smell instead of (this is possible) the smell of salty brackish water all over the bottom of your car.
So I ordered full set of brand new floor mats for $90.
Cheaper than a new car and just the sensible thing a 48 year old would do I guess. But that's not till tomorrow.
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