Blessed Humpday to you and yours. TinyTown has clouded over, the temp is tolerable, but the skies are dreary. The coffee, however, is warm, toasty, and just what I needed this morning.
Yesterday, we drove around the prairie all day. Shawshank walked up to work at the normal time, made sure the place didn’t burn down over the weekend, and picked me up an hour later. He surprised me with a soda.
It was a nice day for a drive. I checked the hourly forecast, which said we might see some rain while we were out. They were correct, and we drove through a bit of a shower around midday. I’ve been to or through most of the towns before, but we did stop into a couple of new ones. Shawshank picked a town about two hours away, and we hit every place along the highway between here and there. If the place was big enough to have a sign along the highway, we would stop and try to find a place to tack up a sign. Only one place was a total bust.
One town had a secondhand shop, and naturally we stopped to see what they had. Thrift shops are my favoritest thing in the world, and the stuff they hoard until Halloween is the best. I think some local high schools donated a lot of things, because there were band uniforms and theater costumes. I looked through the rack for something I could use, and found a basic nun’s habit, with both the tunic and the headgear, so I grabbed that. After joking with Shawshank about making blasphemous smut with it, I put it back. Realistically, I wouldn’t use the tunic, and thought it would probably be a waste of money.
Five minutes later, at the other end of the rack, I found another hanger with nun stuff. Unlike the first, this one was only the veil/coif/guimpe combination. I grabbed that, found some red vinyl pumps, and viola. Blasphemy. Shawshank grabbed another book for his Twilight collection. As he predicted, we made it home late in the afternoon, maybe an hour later than expected. We finished the day by gorging ourselves on popcorn chicken and poutine before we crashed for the night.
Today, I’m drinking a lot to make up for absolutely dehydrating myself yesterday. I was supposed to record my custom video, but the guy messaged overnight and asked if I’d be willing to use his name. Not only should I charge him extra*, but he didn’t even give me his name. If he had, I could record this morning, then send his video with a PPV charge equal to the upcharge. Instead, I have to reply and wait for him to give me his name, and he only ever messages around 3am. I was all set to do it today, and now it’s pushed back a day.
Oh well. It’s time to start a day, put on some real clothes, and try to be a human and that makes us money.
* Typically, the general practice is that pretty much any custom content can be re-sold as PPV to others. Creators will usually add an extra fee for using the buyer’s name to make up for the “lost wages” that come with exclusive customs. No one wants to spend $50 on a POV video where I’m obviously berating someone else.
