Feb 12
Lukas and I eventually made it back from Dump City, New Jersey… although not without a completely unnecessary amount of drama. The high-low-light of the trip revolved around Lukas’s busted-ass car. Just before we left on our multi-day odyssey he casually informed me that the car’s heat was totally broken. I reminded him that we would be driving across the country during the coldest time of the year, to which he replied, “It’s okay. The seat warmers still work!”
During the first leg of our trip, carrying us from New Jersey to a friend’s dorm at Case Western in Cleveland, we found ourselves suffering through the constantly bizarre sensation of fending off frostbite in our hands and feet… but having almost scaldingly hot butts. We would increasingly turn up the heat of our seat warmers in the feeble hope that the excess warmth might flow from our asses to the rest of our body. Spoiler Alert: It Doesn’t.
Halfway to Cleveland we stopped at a truck stop so I could buy a pair of mittens. Once in Ohio, though, the temperature had dropped within a few degrees of zero and even the seat warmers couldn’t hold off hypothermia. Literally shaking in our seats we pulled into a gas station to get Lukas’s sub-zero-rated sleeping back from the trunk. The passenger would wrap themselves in the mummy bag while the driver froze, then, before any real damage could be done, we would switch places.
It was horrible.
And then a funny thing happened on the way into Chicago. In a frigid stupor I must have accidentally pushed a button on the car’s dash because the two of us began to notice the car getting warmer. It took two Northwestern grads about ten minutes to realize that the car’s heater had turned on. It took us another five to realize that the reason the heater had turned on is because I had pushed the “ON” button. Yeah… the heat had worked the entire time… we just had not bothered to turn it on.
I blame Lukas. Although technically it was my own fault in that I should have never believed him when he said, “Don’t touch the heater because it doesn’t work.”
Ugh… at least we made it to Vegas, and once here we quickly got to work. After a few days of research and phone calls we now have an official LLC and PO Box. Our office is set up, complete with an already covered white board, and we have webhosting and registered domains. Things were flowing fairly smoothly until a few days ago when we got some bad news.
Lukas’s grandfather was sick and in the hospital, but he finally passed away last night. The funeral is going to be this weekend and so he will be flying home for the next few days. It is obviously a rough time for him and his family, but hopefully we can still keep on schedule. Even though Lukas will be away for a little while the good news is that I finally (finally!) finished playing Fallout 3. Distractions removed (Lukas included) I will hopefully be able to put my head down and barrel through a lot of the pre-launch programming.
Anyways… I better get back to it…