Teeth happens
I don't know why I am not as thorough as I should be when I do things.
August
When I got my dental insurance, I never bothered to check when I would be able to get an appointment. Turns out I had to wait almost two months to get an appointment because my name has to get on a list at my designated dentist office before I can go in. And the list just came out and a new one doesn't arrive for another month. After that, I can make an appointment. Two months after my insurance starts charging me before I can start using it? Ridiculous huh?
October
So I tried to make an appointment and found out that they don't open on weekends and I can only come in Mon-Fri 10-5. I don't want to lose a day of work for my teeth. Well, I promptly changed dentists. Of course the ubiquitous 2 month waiting term for the new list goes into affect. I thought I was being smart this time. I will call in to every office that I am allowed to go to and get their open hours. I found one that opened to 7 and on Saturdays. Yay.
December
And then I find out that my cheap HMO insurance only covers a single dentist in that office that only comes in twice a week after 12 PM. What the heck? And the next available appointment is 2 more months down the line. Of F this shit. I scheduled an appointment. I give up you got me.
February
And I discussed how much I hate the dentist. I came in 4-5 more times to do my crown. One good thing, the dentist that covers my plan quit so now there is only one other dentist in the office. I can come in anytime I want since she works the whole time. Oh yeah, I can go to any orthodontist I like on the list too, it makes the brochure look so good. But wait, there is tiny black writing. I have to wait 2-3 weeks to get the recommendation to go approved by the company. Oh happy day, how much longer do I have to wait?
March
I am really tired of this insurance. I got a lousy dentist and now they won't pay for my braces. WHY IN THE WORLD DID I HAVE TO WAIT THIS WHOLE TIME?????? SHEESH. And this orthodontist has a crazy amount of patients. So hard to make an appointment. But at least I like him a lot and he seems pretty darn good.
July
Oh no, I have 30 days before my insurance expires. Oh yeah, not gonna renew but I think I should go in for a last cleaning before I leave. Hey, I did pay for a year and you get 2 cleanings a year. Appointment scheduled for Tuesday, nice and easy. Still only one dentist there so I have my pick of times. I come in, oh crap, dentist running late, I have to wait an extra 30 minutes. Of course add on the usual 30 you have to wait and you have your grand total. No prob, I can wait. After I got on the dentist chair, the dental assistant says the last time I came in was March 8th. Oh no, you can't come in unless it is exactly 6 months. WHAT THE HECK? You tell me this after I've been waiting an hour here? Oh gosh, this insurance sucks. OHMIGOSH, this insurance sucks so much. As I think of it, 2 cleanings are free a year. But you can only get a cleaning 6 months past your last cleaning.. So if your second cleaning of the year isn't scheduled exactly 6 months afterwords, you're not gonna get 2 cleanings a year. Add in the administration time of two months to get on the list and it's an impossibility for the first year.
So what have I learned? I need to be more thorough when I check up on insurances. I paid for 3 months of health insurance before I realized it was crap. Now my dental is crap. I had a bad dealing with Farmers auto insurance. 21st Century Auto is so far really really good. Helps me forget that one bad incident that happened.
Let me end on a good note. I told my orthodontist that I wish I could change aligners more frequently because my teeth are only sore for 2 days. He said, alright, 12 days instead of 14. Neato. So I changed to my 4th/43 aligners on Wednesday. FREAKIN A, this is the most it's hurt ever. Maybe 12 days isn't enough. But no way is Dr. Yao gonna hear about this. It's Saturday now and it's still a little sore. But I'll take the pain, I am saving too many days. And if you are actually weird enough to have read through all this, you know I don't want to waste any more days.
Irony
Well, I don't know if it is ironic or not since the word is so freaking hard to use. I often hear people tell me it was used wrong. But whatever, it is ironic that So was able to keep his word and take me fishing on Sunday. Heh... it was scary for awhile. He said he was going to come at 2 and at 1:50 he called to say it was canceled. I thought, damm 4 in a row. But he was kidding around. He, Emily, and I went up to Benicia? bridge to fish with Gu and Tammy. It's a little far to go fish but they sure do bite. I believe between the 5 of us, we caught over 50 fish. You know me right? I never catch fish and neither do the people who go with me. Gu kept hauling them up one after the other. Not more than 30 seconds after her throws his line in and he is bringing another up. So caught 3 also. I caught 2. I would have caught 3 but So was having trouble with his line and I went to help, and as I left my line started to move and Tammy pulled it up for me before my whole rod ends up in the ocean. Yes, I am very satisfied. It was sad how girly So and I was towards the fish. Emily and Tammy had to help us unhook our fish and throw it back in the water. Oh yeah, fish had to be 18" or bigger to take home. I actually did my own fish and So's fish after Tammy showed me how. But So was still squeamish over having to touch it.
We stayed for many hours just talking and fishing. Not a care in the world. I'm glad, I can still spend days like that with my friends. Meeting new people is cool too, especially, when they are nice like Gu and Tammy.
Waiting by the telephone
My my, I've come up to my previous record; Three cancelations in a row. Wonder if I can shatter it with number 4 but probably not since I don't have anything planned today. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, I was left waiting by the phone. If I wasn't so lazy I would be mad. I guess I'm still fresh off the indifference of it all. Two Wednesday's ago, my friend called to say she wanted to come pick up a receipt of something I bought for her work so she could get reimbursed by her boss. She said she was going to get some fruit dessert with her friend afterwards and asked if I would like to come along. Sure, you know I love my Hui Lau San. It's been sufficently hot, and even if it wasn't mmmm.... good dessert. She was supposed to be by at 7:30 to pick me up. 8 o'clock rolls by and I know she is a super lagger. By the time it hits 9, I wonder if she is going to call me to cancel. The next day at work, I wonder if our conversation had gone awry. Did I say I didn't want to go? But then she still would have picked up her receipt which was the primary goal, right? She finally called me back on Friday apologizing. Apparently, her other friend could only go out for an hour so there wasn't enough time to come pick me up as well. So the question is
Why didn't you call that you weren't coming?
I forgot, I was in such a rush
Yeah, that's a lousy answer. I didn't say that
Why didn't you call afterwards?
Well it was like 10:30 and I thought you were asleep.
Yeah that's an even worse answer. I didn't say this either
The third question didn't need to be asked.
Why didn't you call me the day afterwards instead calling me two days afterwards?
I didn't want to put her in an awkward situation. There is definitely no good answer to that one.
Being that I had done a similar thing to Nam, I felt, yeah, you deserve it you bastard. And at least I could understand how she felt that night. She basically wanted to be with her friend more than me. Which is almost acceptable. But calling me two days afterwards to apologize? No, I have nothing for that. I had told her once about my paranoia about lateness and flakiness. She was questioning me about why I keep calling her the day before and the hour before we go out. We made the plans and we're going, there's no need to call. It was a thing between us. I would often sit outside her house 15 minutes on average past the time of arrival waiting for her. She would feel bad and life goes on. I started changing things to her driving me around. At least if she is late, I am at home to do things rather than napping in my car. 2 days... It was a shock to me coming from her. "When I say I will go, I will go." She has held true to that until now.
After apologizing she wanted to treat me to dinner that night. Yeah right, It's like a person who almost drowned in the pool. You don't invite them back in so soon. I said you can call me when we're about to go if you like. But I don't want to make any plans. (with you) I added those two words in my mind. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt for not calling me that night, but you should have called me the next morning. I want to like her. I want to find a good excuse for her, but I can't. Right now, I don't know if I am mad or whatever I should be feeling. She called me two more times the next week and we talked as if nothing was wrong. That's how I am. I feel if I am the one who has the problem with the person, I'll work it out on my own. Just pretend everything is fine and I will forget about. It usually works. Three more in a row? Just add it to the list of things I will try to forget.
Termites
Phase 3 of my diabolical plan has been set in motion. I reap the benefits in 30 days. If you see me in a sour mood around then, you will have known the outcome.
I hate it when things crop up that you have little information on. Worse, when you have little time. The termites will cost approximately 3300 dollars to fix. But who knows what other damage they uncover when they start working? It was only a surface check. And how does that fit in with home buying? Is this a common occurence? Do we pay? Does the seller pay? Termites were found at the place last November. Presumably, it was fixed then. Why are they back so soon? Too many questions. Too little time. The no contingency agreement needs to go out tomorrow. What do I do? Well, I took care of four things today so I feel pretty darn good. Cingular fixed my bill. Still owe 4 bucks in taxes. What gives? But at least it's over with. Called dentist to make appointment for cleaning. My insurance lasts up to the end of this month and I am very unsatisfied with the service. So I am taking care of my last checkup and canceling. And the third thing would be calling in warranty to fix my busted tv. It takes forever to turn on. The fourth thing I did is phase 3. I have to say, a lot of burden off my shoulder. Now we have room to throw other things on. Tomorrow's task include: Fastrak transponder needs to sent. I still have that fry's rebate to send.
It feels weird not looking at the keyboard to type. I wonder if I can keep it up. Just finished watching Friends. No not that Friends, this is a 4 parter Japanese/Korean collaboration. Again, super cute Japanese chick with an equally cute Korean guy and they try to get it on despite cultural differences. Heh, I feel so white thinking like this, but damm man, they're Asian, what culture differences? Nifty idea for a show, but entirely too cheesy and the end is awful. I like how they couldn't understand each other in the beginning and had to use English to communicate even though they were both extremely poor at it. We really need a universal language like Esperanto to be more prevalent. English is just too difficult to learn. One scene had the girl yelling at the guy and the guy explaining himself to a Hong Kong cop. Three different languages and and only broken English to get them through it all. Stupidly towards the 3rd episode, they were able to understand each other perfectly. Both speaking in their own tongues. Yeah, that makes sense.
Lui Mai
It's more of the same today as I trudge through another hot hot day. There is one good thing about doing this job: I get all the AC I want. The temperature changes are even more drastic now that I am doing my uncle's route. We have the morning fog over Monterey bay putting temps into the mid 60's. Once I hit 101 going to Gilroy however and temps soar to 97. In Daly City, it is so cold and windy, that you need to put on a jacket. And then back San Jose at a balmy 89. I like all the differences but it makes me think I am putting my body into torture. Like how deep sea divers don't just come to the surface, they need a hyperbaric chamber to gradually change the pressure. Sam with temperature to the body.
AT&T charged me a $268 phone bill. Sadly, I've paid higher for a month of service. Cingular decided to not cancel one of my lines. Bastards. I hope I can get out of it. There are termites in my new house. Going to cost about $3000 to fix. My new DVD writer says it is a 12x, but I think it's lying. It's so slow. It normally takes me 43 min to burn at 2.4x but this piece of shit takes 60 minutes to burn 2.4x. Lying machines, what has the world come to. I have a lot of marshmallows left from the bonfire. I don't like marshmallows. I finally reformatted my computer because that new 200 GB hard drive I had was doing The Click of Death. It still works so I put it as a data drive now. Andrew is so small. He sleeps with his hands up the whole time. Think of a baby who always has a gun pointed at him. That's Andrew... hands up! Nga let me borrow her GPS satellite system. This thing rocks. Tells me where I am, where I am going, how fast I am going, how far I have gone and so on and so forth. Max speed recorded by it is 109 mph. I know I didn't drive that fast. Have a few more things on my mind that I have to take care of but I am too lazy to worry about. I am doing one thing per day. So tomorrow, I think I worry about Cingular. All in all , nothing major to report today. Some odds and ends.
My new home
A New Beginning
Exotic. That's how you would describe this week. It's an exotic blend of tribulations, ownership, revelations, and final decisions. Phase one of my ambitious plan is went ahead as scheduled. The fruits of with will bloom in the coming weeks. Phase 2 will be accomplished by the end of this week, I hope.
We'll start with revelations. On Tuesday, my sister was bugging me about borrowing my camera for her maternity bag. "When are you going to give birth? Sometime in the next two weeks!!!" I don't want to go without a camera for two weeks. As fate would have it, Andrew Tsang emerged Wednesday morning, less than 24 hours after she packed her bags. He's a tiny little guy but very beautiful and precious. I don't really know how to describe the feelings. But I keep thinking he is the most beautiful thing in the world. I just want to make sure he is protected always.
Wednesday goes with decisions. I went to Hayward State to discuss enrollment possibilities. The counselor has instructed me in the ways. I just need to decide on what it is I want to do. I need two more classes to transfer and it was deteremined that it would be best to take them at Foothill and apply for the Winter 05 semester. I also need an additional two classes to make up the units required. So now I just need to decide what classes I want to take. I have until August 30th. That is my registration date. I think I will take some easy classes since these classes are required for me to get into Hayward. I don't want to take a risk with Math 1B.
Thursday becomes ownership as the news of the acceptance of our offer goes through. I will be the proud owner of a $495,000 little hole in Milpitas. What a relief. I admit, I haven't seen the home yet but it seems fairly decent, but now where near worth half a mill. Oh why are people so rich in Santa Clara.
Friday brings along tribulations as work again fatigued me with unrelenting force. Dad wakes me up at 1 AM to tell me to get a manifest. Uncle wakes me up at 2 AM another day to get the manifest. Uncle wakes me up another day to get rental information. Please leave me alone after 12 AM. Please? I need a new job. I need some kind of break from all this. TGIF!
Saturdays outings proved monotonous but wholly enjoyable. Spent the morning with Ying-Ying fixing her computer. I thought I had finally wrestled out the stigma of computer guy. But the effects still linger. Thank you Jack. THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY
BROKEN HEART. HEHEHE. We had some darn crappy steak. That's right, my veggie stint will go on hiatus for about a year as my teeth comes into alignments with the planets. Look out cows. Here I come.
Bonfire in Santa Cruz was predictable. Everyone arrives late. We drive around in circles for an hour. And then we sit around doing nothing but talk. I try to cook a variety of culinary delights, but I'm afraid only the hotdog came out good. Now, I know, cooking popcorn is impossible without a grill, you end up burning the popcorn and one side isn't cooked. Cocktail shrimp cannot be cooked. Marshmallows are too sweet. I enjoyed talking to Jennifer and Cathy. My conversation with Jack and S were somewhat subdued. She still had that penetrating gaze. Or perhaps I still have terrors from her two friends. Which is stupid because I didn't interact with them all that much anyway. I tried to get to know her but it seemed she had a silent partnership with Jack or maybe the exchanges could not be heard by a third party. Interestingly enough, Nam's drive provoked a giggle from her. Was it from fright? Not sure why he chose to increase speed of death at hairpin turns. Can slow drivers be that distracting?
Sunday is just mellow. Currently watching Summer Scent. Korean drama where a guy's girlfriend dies and donates her heart to another person. Year's later he meets the woman who received the heart of the person he loved. Cheesy huh?
My new nephew: Andrew Tsang
Pressure rising
Frustration and temper is rising. The time to act is nigh. I'm done with this passive wishy-washy go-with-it flow. I need action now. I am so over with this life. I am so done with waiting for things to happen. If I want to change something, I will have to do it. With determination... aggression if need be. I no longer want to linger. Work, life, companionship, duty, career... all of it is at a standstill because of my hesitation. Well, that is so done. I am going to do it now. No more sighing and going oh well. If I don't set things straight, I will regret it for the rest of my life. Wish me luck? No. I don't need any of that. I will do it. And I will succeed. Just you wait and see.
Oh yeah, gonna have dinner later with Mandy and friends. I love meeting new people.
My dvd writer is broken
Worked my uncle's route on Thursday and Friday. I have to say, it's pretty darn easy. Very few stops but way more miles to drive. Very easy drive too since it is during the night mostly and before rushhour. The only problem is that the times are too messed up. Finish at 1 AM is very hard on the body. I guess if I got used to it, it wouldn't be bad. But it's too hard to have dinner with friends. I barely made time for pho with Kim. I like to waste time.
I've been spending a lot of time with Ying-Ying lately. It's weird, she used to bring me down with her criticisms of how I spend my life. Well, she's not really like that, but it comes off that way, like a mom telling her kid what to do. But lately, things have turned around. Maybe she's matured. Maybe I just don't see my life as garbage anymore. I'll be really sad when she's gone to China next week. I used to see her like twice a year, but now it's weekly thing. I have to go make an antivirus cd for her before she goes. Have to remember that. We had some com tom on Thursday and she was excited about class. She had these neat little cardio kickboxing gloves. It's sad her mom is making her go to China. Sounds weird but it isn't. She really shouldn't go but they're non-refundable tickets. I'm going to buy a racket next month and play with her when she comes back.
Just finished watching "A Sleeping Forest." A different kind of JDorama in that it's a suspense thriller, whodunit dealy. Main girl is so stylish. I just love the look of a turtle neck sweater on a girl with a long dark slender dress and boots. Throw in a locket necklace for accessory. Now what can I wear to be stylish and relatively affordable...
What a nice day to cheat death
Bollocks
The other week, Kim called me out to go hiking. I wasn't really in the mood. I was thoroughly and still am entranced by the Japanese drama on my computer that I just wanted to sit and wittle my weekend away. But how often will opportunities come nowadays. I mean, I'm not very proactive in trying to get out at the moment. I just feel too comfortable by myself. Lately, I've just had a blast in shorts and a dirty t-shirt just lying on the ground doing nothing.
Anyway, we came back to Villa Montalvo. The last time I was here, I sprained my ankle. It put me out of commission for over a month so I wanted to conquer it this time. We decided to go to IHOP before tackling the little hill. I was thinking it could give us some time to catch up on all the little news and gossip that has happened the past couple of weeks. And yes, Kim is good. Not only was my stomach satisfied when we left but my ears was properly fed as well.
Kim's strange sleepiness and body pains came to haunt her as we started the hike. What a temperamental body she has to put up with. She really has to whip that body so that it listens to her. About 30 minutes into the hike, we came to a fork in the road. One led back to the car and one led onwards to a couple of hours more hike. I asked her, which direction would you like to take. She replied, I really want to go back to the car but I'm willing to go on with the hike. I took one look at her and thought, "Is she serious? She wants to go on? Why? She wants to go on for me? Why? She's been yawning and pushing herself just to get this far. Why would she be willing to suffer more? For me? Who am I?" It didn't make sense to me. People don't do things for me. People do things that are convenient for them. I said, "Let's go back to the car." As we walked back she tried to make up for "it" by saying we can go watch that Mandy Moore movie. Is she feeling bad we have to end the hike short? Why? Why does it matter to her? We ended up doing some good REI shopping. She gloated on her purchases. Her pains and sleepiness magically disappeared. Heh, shopping cures everything.
So, this is a new feeling for me. Someone who is willing to do something they really don't want to so they don't let me down. Friendship huh? Wow, I am blown away. Oh yeah, if you turn the tables, I would have done the same for her. So it's no big deal. But it's just she's doing it for me. It's just a weird and wonderful feeling. I just don't think I am all that important for anyone to care about. It's a little of that high school depression that I still have lingering about. I remember saying once that I will probably not know Kim in 10 years. Because of one thing or another, I didn't think our friendship would last. Distance, time, change in lifestyles, etc... It's not personal, besides Jack, I can't think of anyone off the spot that I will know for the rest of my life. But I can confidently say that I will make the effort to make Kim part of my life. Friendship like this is rare.
The other day, Nam told me his July 4th party is gonna be on July 3rd. Well, thanks for telling me early. Well, truth be told he called me 3 days in a row before I picked up. Heheh, when I got the call, I said, "I'll wait till 7 to call. He didn't leave a message so it's not that important." Of course, I kept forgetting to call back. Gotta love Korean drama... mmmm mmmm good. On the third day, I was actually there to pick up. But I already scheduled househunting with Nga Saturday afternoon. The stupid thing is, before we go, my sister said there will only be one house to look at. So I said, whatever, I'm gonna go to the park. One house is not worth my time, especially if it's that ancient Willow Glen house that I am completely not interested in. It was so hot and I wanted to lie down for a bit and just... eh... wait. Whatever for whatever reason. In the end, they saw 3 houses, 2 of which they liked. The 3rd one is that ugly old house. And Kim made shish-kabobs. So I didn't get to go to either thing. And I sat at home all alone. Kinda dumb. But eh, Song Hye Gong is so cute. No idea how to spell her name.
Well, to add to the stupidness of this weekend. Jack called to go to Marine World. Oh no, I have to work. ONE FREAKING STOP! ONE FREAKIN' PLACE DECIDED THEIR EMPLOYEES SHOULD WORK. I didn't care for Marine World, but it'd be nice to see Jack and his new belle again especially since I missed out the other day. And of course, the stop has to be picked up in the middle of the day. I arrive and what does the person say to me. "Oh I didn't know you were working today, so I saved them for tomorrow." Great. thanks a lot.
But there is a good side to this weekend. I feel refreshed. Cleansed and relaxed. I haven't shaven in 3 days and my mug looks like crap, but you know what. I feel good. Weekends should always be 3 days long...
Work
Per Jack's lack of knowledge in my seemingly blissless life, I will go into some sort of detail.
Uncle took on a new bid for several new stops. This bid covers a route in Sacramento as well. We will be picking up for a new lab company call Specialty Labs. They have totally different procedures and documentations than what we were used to with Lab One. Uncle made the mistake of starting the route without knowing exactly how much he is going to be paid. My job was fairly simple. My morning was extremely easy with a lot of time to spare. Afternoons are a little rough because I can't leave Santa Rosa until 2PM which makes getting back to San Jose by 5PM a close call. And of course, all the new stops take place in the afternoon precisely when I don't have enough time. There's so much paperwork now too. Every specimen has to be logged and tagged and blah-blahed. There is literally, a study session at my house at 6PM everyday. They're all sitting in the driveway filling out paperwork for 30 minutes.
Long story short, I work my ass off for 10 bucks extra a day. I put in an extra 90 min of work a day. I put in an extra 60 miles of gas per day. In the end, I lose money by doing these extra stops. My Uncle now has a schedule of 11AM-4PM a 4 hour lunch and then 8PM-1AM. I can see the white hairs popping everywhere on his head. His wife is covering his morning route using my car. So I am driving a new rental every week. Which is really annoying because I have to transport my workstuff in and out of the car everyday. And there is a lot of stuff: fastrak transponder, coins for the meter, manifest, bag for specimens, dry ice, etc.... FREAKIN ANNOYING! I forgot my phone charger one time. I had to waste 20 minutes going into Target to buy another one and at 15 bucks, I don't want to bother going back in to return it. All this for a loss? Stupid huh? And he can't back out of the deal. It would look really bad for him to accept it at first and then not follow through They already let him back out of the Sacramento route. I'm picking up stuff in SF that is forgotten sometimes. Weird schedules sometimes force me to go the airport when I am off work already. Seriously, I'd put up with it if I got paid. But 10 bucks??????? There is only one positive: job security. There is no way they are going to let us go because we are holding too many crucial accounts now. $225 is still a steal for my day's work, but it's just that I had such an easy time at $215 a day.
Oh yeah,
Kia Rio
Pros: Great ergonomics, seat height adjuster, 4 front cup holders. Great head room, strong engine. Easy and intuitive gauge cluster and HVAC controls
Cons: Buzzy car, buzzy engine. Vibrates at a stop light. Sways in the wind. Much too much wind noise especially around the side mirrors. Swallows gas, 31 mpg is not good for a 1.6 liter engine.
Conclusion: You get what you pay for, what a piece of crap this is.
Chevy Malibu (Classic)
Pros: Smooth quiet engine, plenty of power. Roomy. Automatic headlights. 30 mpg for a V6
Cons: Made for giant Americans, I could not sit comfortably, too low in seat and no seat height adjuster. Really crappy interior, HVAC controls are angled towards the floor. Door hard to close. AC turns on when you press recirculate. Sometimes I just want recirculate without AC. AC always defaults to off when you stop the car. So when you start again it's off but since the green "on light" is so faint, you don't notice until your back gets wet.
Conclusion: This is why domestics don't sell well. Nice car with good driving dynamics marred by shotty interior, and stupid HVAC controls.
Ford Focus
Pros: Powerful engine, 33 mpg, Very good sound system, Tight suspension makes you want to toss the car around
Cons: Suspension a little too harsh sometimes, door hard to open and key hard to put in. You have to pull at the handle at the right angle and the key in at the right angle. Door locks are hard to understand too
Conclusion: Finally a nice car. I could see myself buying it. Some things do hold me back though. Basically, the car is fugly. The updated 2005 model only uglified it more. The door locks is annoying. It locks all the doors when you drive; Good. But it doesn't unlock them when you stop the engine; Bad.
Let's see what car I get next week. I am still holding out for the Sentra.
Invisalign
What am I getting myself into. Two weeks ago when I placed this piece of plastic on my teeth, I was like: "Crap, I can't eat normally now." It didn't hurt too much. After 7 days, I was thinking of talking to the orthodontist about speeding up the process by putting in a new aligner every week instead of every other week. I seemed to be adapting quite well. Last night I put in my second aligner and motherf**ker, it hurts something fierce. The first aligner was probably just a teaser; bait and switch. I'm gonna have to go through this every 2 weeks for 2-3 days? God, kill me now. Why do I have to be so vain?!!?!? *sigh* 15 months to go...
