07.12.06
Dead Car
Well, my car overheated crazy today and I pulled over to a gas station to let it cool off. Added some coolant and after a good wait, I started to drive off again. Then crazy white smoke started coming out of the tailpipe. Fuck. I pulled over immediately and fortunately, I pulled into an auto repair place. So I dropped off the keys into the dropbox, grabbed my laptop, and headed off down the road. I called a cab at the gas station and that’s that. I noticed a car donation center across the street from the repair place and my car will most likely end up there. I’m pretty sure my engine is blown. I’m not going to put any money into this car so it’s finally time to get a new one. In the meantime, I guess I’ll be working from home until my brother comes this weekend to bring the pickup. I’ll be looking for a new car right away. I’ll most likely get a Subaru but we’ll see after I do some test driving.
Knowing I’m going to have to gather some funds, I logged into my Second Life account. I have about $200,000 in Linden cash there. I started in Second Life on launch day and while there, I made some decent virtual cash selling the Roach Coach, Pimp Wheel (a Big Wheel with gold rims), along with buying & selling land. These were vehicles I modeled and scripted. You can even drive them around.. we’ll in virtual space. The Roach Coach would give out tacos if you clicked on it. While driving, you could shoot tacos at people too.
Anyway, I haven’t been active in Second Life in some years now and all that virtual cash has just been sitting there. So just now, I sold it all back. For the current exchange rate, I was able to get $617.84 US Dollar for $200,000 Linden Dollars. I’m having that money sent to my Pay Pal account.
