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Jun. 14th, 2013 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariSo. Despite today's earlier missed appointment, I apparently have a car again.
Dean is back in Austin for a few days finalizing some Austin stuff before moving back to Pennsylvania for a good number of months. And one of those things was his car.
When I moved down from Seattle, without either the White Elephant or Cheyenne, and not wanting to get "entangled" in anything before I was ready, I was going to use public transportation. While I hate public transportation, Seattle's was so well put together, I could get anywhere I wanted to anywhere I wanted fairly simply. Austin's public transportation is one of the best in the state, and I figured I'd be able to do the same. I forgot that that state was "Texas."
There are only two buses that go near my house, and aren't far to get to. The problem is, unlike Seattle's massive transportation system, Capital Metro is mostly in the heart of town, versus any of the suburbs. In Seattle, I could literally take a bus all the way up to Vancouver. Snoqualmie, almost thirty miles away, was part of the Seattle bus systems.
Austin, however...I have two busses that come by my house, that go right into town, but not to any other real places in suburbia itself, where the tech jobs seem to be. The only reason, it seems, I get two busses is I can walk to the freeway from here and there's a mall nearby.
Anyways, I've come to depend on Dean's car. A lot.
One of the things he was going to do when he came down was sell his car. The more I thought about it, the more I realized I needed that vehicle myself. Dean was willing to sell it to me to keep it in the family, and even go under blue book calue for it. I couldn't make it work, though...
...however, my parents decided to help out by getting a car loan which they'll pay while I'm unemployed - and I'll take over once I am employed.
So I have a car again! This is good!
But it's an entanglement. Something I'm trying very hard to avoid right now.
Not that I'm saying having the car is bad, or getting the loan is bad. But there's a philosophy I began to grasp in my last years of Seattle, just after we signed the two year lease for the house. "Disentanglement."
While I was pushing hard for the Nintendo job until just before the end, when I realized that after five attempts to get hired, a sixth was not going to happen, after signing the lease for the house, I began to "disentangle" myself from Seattle.I began paying off debts, closing out contracts, reducing the numbers of things holding me to Seattle. It really worked out well, and allowed me to make a clean break from Seattle once it was time. As of right now, I only have one "entanglement" to Seattle I can manage from here, and once I'm hired, will be gone.
In fact, if it wasn't for the work needed on the White Elephant, broken hardware, new shoes, overpayment on the moving truck and so on - I wouldn't be as financially in dire staights as I am, as one of those disentanglement strategies was to have a ton of money when I left.
The flip side was once I was in Austin, to have as few entanglements as I could manage, and, at the same time, only once I had a job. This isn't just an entanglement before I'm ready, it's not quite what I want. I was hoping to buy a brand new pickup to replace Cheyenne (damn, do I miss her), but instead and inheriting a used Mazda. It's not what I want. It's what I NEED, but not what I want.
So I have a car now. Let's hope there are less entanglements down the road, and that I can get out of this one as quick as I can.
Dean is back in Austin for a few days finalizing some Austin stuff before moving back to Pennsylvania for a good number of months. And one of those things was his car.
When I moved down from Seattle, without either the White Elephant or Cheyenne, and not wanting to get "entangled" in anything before I was ready, I was going to use public transportation. While I hate public transportation, Seattle's was so well put together, I could get anywhere I wanted to anywhere I wanted fairly simply. Austin's public transportation is one of the best in the state, and I figured I'd be able to do the same. I forgot that that state was "Texas."
There are only two buses that go near my house, and aren't far to get to. The problem is, unlike Seattle's massive transportation system, Capital Metro is mostly in the heart of town, versus any of the suburbs. In Seattle, I could literally take a bus all the way up to Vancouver. Snoqualmie, almost thirty miles away, was part of the Seattle bus systems.
Austin, however...I have two busses that come by my house, that go right into town, but not to any other real places in suburbia itself, where the tech jobs seem to be. The only reason, it seems, I get two busses is I can walk to the freeway from here and there's a mall nearby.
Anyways, I've come to depend on Dean's car. A lot.
One of the things he was going to do when he came down was sell his car. The more I thought about it, the more I realized I needed that vehicle myself. Dean was willing to sell it to me to keep it in the family, and even go under blue book calue for it. I couldn't make it work, though...
...however, my parents decided to help out by getting a car loan which they'll pay while I'm unemployed - and I'll take over once I am employed.
So I have a car again! This is good!
But it's an entanglement. Something I'm trying very hard to avoid right now.
Not that I'm saying having the car is bad, or getting the loan is bad. But there's a philosophy I began to grasp in my last years of Seattle, just after we signed the two year lease for the house. "Disentanglement."
While I was pushing hard for the Nintendo job until just before the end, when I realized that after five attempts to get hired, a sixth was not going to happen, after signing the lease for the house, I began to "disentangle" myself from Seattle.I began paying off debts, closing out contracts, reducing the numbers of things holding me to Seattle. It really worked out well, and allowed me to make a clean break from Seattle once it was time. As of right now, I only have one "entanglement" to Seattle I can manage from here, and once I'm hired, will be gone.
In fact, if it wasn't for the work needed on the White Elephant, broken hardware, new shoes, overpayment on the moving truck and so on - I wouldn't be as financially in dire staights as I am, as one of those disentanglement strategies was to have a ton of money when I left.
The flip side was once I was in Austin, to have as few entanglements as I could manage, and, at the same time, only once I had a job. This isn't just an entanglement before I'm ready, it's not quite what I want. I was hoping to buy a brand new pickup to replace Cheyenne (damn, do I miss her), but instead and inheriting a used Mazda. It's not what I want. It's what I NEED, but not what I want.
So I have a car now. Let's hope there are less entanglements down the road, and that I can get out of this one as quick as I can.
