nah...

i'm going to hang on to them; used tires aren't particularly hard to find for free, and there's enough rubber there for a few tries.

why not try it? nothing to lose.

i wonder if it's possible to just buy a sheet of rubber and cut it up with a drywall knife.

yeah. that should be possible. hrmmn.

actually, you know what? i bought some goo. i'm going to see if i can hack something together.

that's too big for tape

the one on the other side is a little smaller, but the same basic problem.

if i actually *could* scan it and feed it into a printer that could print out the right size...

those shoes were actually split right down the sole, both feet. if somebody told me that a nefarious shoe vandal broke in overnight and used a machete to slice right through the bottom, i'd agree it was a plausible explanation of the state the shoes are in, if a little less credulous an explanation regarding the path of them getting there.

i hadn't checked the bottom until now. well, i could see holes on the front, so i didn't have to get that far to come to the conclusion that the shoes have holes. the rubber is worn through around the places the sole is cut, creating what is almost a "sinkhole" kind of effect.

just literally worn out.

....meaning i'd need more than epoxy or shoe goo to fix these things. i'd need plastic and rubber. and a 3-d printer might be useful. really, it would cost less in both labour and currency to replace them. they're dead.

so, they are now drying in the sink, until i can get them to a proper disposal centre along with a bunch of electronics and other things i've put aside. they were a pair of gravis skate shoes that lasted close to five years, which is not bad at all considering how much walking i do.

nothing to be done about that.

you should be able to see the slice through the material.

i'm actually surprised i couldn't feel this, except for the wet.

routers are universally marketed as wireless nowadays, but it turns out a lot of them are also wired - which is what i need. always have to ask, though...

i got the following response back from somebody:

"it has five wired ports in the back"

so, i think - a five port router? unusual, but not unheard of. i only need four, but why not...

ugh.

price after exchange rate conversion: $30.02

paypal balance: $30.

amount of time to wait to transfer the extra few cents: 8-10 days.

hopefully, the exchange rate will modify slightly in my favour before then.

actually, it already has.

a live rate says it should be $29.17.

and, you know, they advertise being up to date. bullshit. well, unless there's a hidden service fee.

i'm going to put it through and see what happens...

yeah, the rate they're using is just flat out wrong. 0.874590. but it hasn't gone that low in years. it's been down a little over the last month, but never below 0.89.

the rate hasn't been that low since summer, 2009.

some up to date exchange rate...

ok, there's a hidden fee, at 2.5%. adding 0.025 gets the current rate.

that two cents is still an incredible annoyance. hopefully, they just put it through. if not, it's not particularly unlikely that the rate will go up over .9 in the next day or two...

it was even over .9 this afternoon. low close.

lol...

it doesn't matter, because it's an e-check anyways, meaning i actually just wasted a week. ugh again.

<----- clearly using paypal for the first time. well, with a bank account anyways.

now my bank account is basically frozen for a week as i wait for the $30.02 to come out through e-check and the $30 to go back into the bank account from the paypal account, as i only had $45 in there. it should wash itself out, but i don't want to go under $31 as the e-check will probably clear before the transfer back in does.

*shrug*. i've got enough to eat for a few days.