Last night should have probably given me a clue of how today would turn out. Went to Philippine Grille for dinner, made plans for Saturday: rosary, movies, and drinking. Headed downtown and after a lot of hemming and hawing found myself at Barleycorn's. It's a much different scene than when I was last there. It was a room full of Hot Topic rejects, no offense, (I think that's what they were aiming for so it should actually be a compliment. ) The band that was playing was f-ing with the crowd, I'm convinced they have no lyrics and just scream and head bang a lot. By the way, all the songs sounded like each other, and their last song had the longest instrumental. I was physically ill, I'm sure not because the place was wrong, I was wrong, I didn't need to be there. A really awkward moment came when I had to interact with one of their locals. Left alone while Carissa took a bathroom break this semi-decent, not-at-all-intimidating kid came up and asked how I was doing. He probably thought I was damaged because of the perma-look of confusion and fear I had on. The convo went:

Him: How are you doing?
Me:(Barely audible)Fine (Look at Carissa already laughing her ass off at me.)
Him: Cheers! (Raises bottle of beer to me.)
Me: Okay (Clinks bottle against glass of amaretto sour.)
Him: Damn rednecks in the middle!
Me: (Looking around)Which middle?
Him: (Tries to chuckle.) It's something you drink to.
Me:Oh (Watching Carissa still laughing at me.)
Him: I guess I'll go dissappear now.
Me:Thank you.

Seriously I didn't mean to say thank you, he wasn't bothering me that much, I was just completely out of place and didn't know what else to say.

Crazy! And speaking off, my precious much loved A630 is broken. I know I haven't broken a phone since the Verizon era standing in line at the Brickyard, but atleast I have insurance. I still have to file a claim and wait for shipping so in the meantime I have Dad's Samsung D415 which was originally inherited from Ching, I'm about to search my apartment for an extra SIM card to activate so I can still have phone usage. Unfortunately my old SIM is also "broken."

The worst part is having to drive to Derby to use Mom's house phone to suspend the line, finding out there's an extra phone and I need a SIM and having to drive back to Wichita, just so I can drive back to Derby to use the phone again to activate the SIM. Good times.

Maybe I can log all this expenses due to phone loss and see if someone will compensate me for the hassle.

Alright - gas for back and forth travel $10
deductible for insurance claim $100/$110
expedited shipping $20
the possibility that this happened for a reason - priceless

There's somethings money can't buy, but for immediate gratification ... I'll take VISA.