Posted by Erica on Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Tags: Garage Door, Garage Doors, Garage Door Opener, Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Replacement, Garage Door Installation, Garage Door Service, garage door prices
When she shoots him, it’s with the silenced side-arm she’s drawn from her left thigh-holster, not her spinal rifle. He doesn’t see it coming. His eyes slide cross-wise as the bolt of EM radiation hits his face, soaks through his skull. He wavers precariously, still balanced upright, and in that tiny space before his body collapses, she throws the small side-arm behind her head, at his beaters, to a chorus of surprised cursing.
She hears the click of the shotgun’s safety, not a foot behind her head.
“Nope.” She grabs the barrel of the shotgun behind her, twists it and smashes it back into the face of the moron who was aiming it at her. He reflexively lets go, and she uses it to club him over the head. As he’s going down, she bludgeons the shocked man to his left. The last four aim their gats at her but they’re too slow, she’s already flung the shotgun at them and they flinch and one of their guns go off but it’s not at her and just like that, one two three four, richocheting off the smooth garage door walls, they’re on the floor. Her spinal rifle is warm in her hand.
She really loves that thing. She blows some air over the front of it, as if smoke were really rising from the barrel.
The whole thing has taken about seven seconds and six men are fried on the floor, twitching. She probably hasn’t killed any of them but Felix Rama, seeing as the rifle was set on low. The rest of the bar paused during the violence but already the beat of the music has swept them back up.
Blue flags down the cute waitress. She seems new, a little perturbed by all the bodies. Big baby blues gone wide.
“Sorry I left you such a mess, sugar,” Blue says to the tiny brunette, easy-like, and the girl’s face sets, resolute.
“Yeah, yeah,” she says.
Posted by ESP on Monday, 29 August 2011
Tags: Garage Door, Garage Doors, Garage Door Opener, Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Replacement, Garage Door Installation, Garage Door Service, garage door prices
“Felix. You really wanna rethink that message you’re sending, cause everything’s fine here. I know you’re gonna be reasonable. You gonna ask for, let’s say, half your original price. Then we gonna walk away happy. You send that mayday message, maybe we don’t have such a happy ending, you picking up what I’m setting down?”
“You will not shoot me,” Felix says. “You will never get your weapons. These are the new G-series, fresh from Talos. Cueball cannot be happy if you come back empty-handed.” He looks so sure he’s won, Blue wants to rip his face off. Can’t stand it.
Screw the plan.
“Your guns ain’t nothing to me or to Cueball you little idiot.” Blue knocks the table clear with the gun, shattering glasses and rattling the lamp. Felix ducks. She stands over him, rifle now cradled in the crook of her elbow, fingers caressing the trigger. “They don’t call me Crazy Blue for nothing. I give exactly zero. Take your fingers off your communicator or I’ll fry you.”
He calls her bluff. Presses his finger to his palm for send.
“I warned you,” she says, turns the tri-function flip, which gives a satisfying click.
“I warned you,” he replies, and she becomes aware that she’s been made. She turns her head slowly to take in the six moronic beater-types who have just walked in through the garage door entrance, all packing heat and standing menacingly around her in a semi-circle. One guy has a shotgun, standing right behind her. Overkill.
She turns back to see Felix’s stupid smirking mug. He did say his people were on the way, she really should have seen this coming.
“Are you scared yet, Miss Blue?”
“You wish.”
Posted by Erica on Thursday, 25 August 2011
Tags: Garage Door, Garage Doors, Garage Door Opener, Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Replacement, Garage Door Installation, Garage Door Service, garage door prices
She knows she paints a nice picture, her massive assault rifle strapped snugly along her spine, leaning back in the dramatic blue side-lighting of her favorite juice joint, The Dirty Grus. The walls are all made of metal and glass garage doors, a new fashion. She’s sitting at a table with a soft inner-worlder who thinks he can tangle on Metis. In Jack City, the capitol. She knows her long bare legs, her steel-tipped commando boots, her bulky, low-slung belt, and her little vest filled to the brim with high-freq recharges makes her look threatening and alluring. It’s the combination that always makes them twitchy.
“Metis IV is one of them planets in the twilight, you know?” She starts lazily, swirling the head off the top of her brew. “Between the inner and outer spheres. Half-core, half-peripheral. Swanky and skuzzy. Halfwise orderly and half-ways lawless.”
Her current assignment/dealer (prey) looks smug. Felix Rama, some cocky rich boy from someplace tame, someplace central: Zohpos or something. Pressed suit. Latest brain-implant gear. Overly-done eyebrows. Thinks he’s better than her. (That won’t last long.) The plan is to intimidate him into lowering his prices and staying loyal to the Cairo.
“The tourists love the capitol, course. The tourists, they think it’s a freeride town where anything goes and everybody live on powder and juice.” Rama is nodding at her. “And seem like that’s true, for the first few weeks, don’t it?"
“I never have a problem,” Rama says.
She smiles. People are usually afraid of her smiles. “But really, this just a mob-run planet. You know that, don’t you, Felix? You stay in Jack City long enough, you either get with a gang or you die.”
His face pales but he’s still smirking.
“Boy, you din’t even know which territory you crossed through this morning, you idiot. Din’t even know we was all watching you. We police better than the goo.”
Posted by ESP on Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Tags: Garage Door, Garage Doors, Garage Door Opener, Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Replacement, Garage Door Installation, Garage Door Service, garage door prices
How people react to garage door openers that don't work says quite a lot about who they are as people. You might not think that is the case but with a little thinking and quiet interpretation, you can absolutely find out interesting things about people.
For example, an acquaintance of mine named West was having some trouble with his garage door opener recently, though he didn't report it to me. (I had to witness the situation firsthand to even come to know baaboutout it) He's not the kind of person who reports problem he's having: either he solves them himself, or he simply tolerates something being wrong.
So apparently he was tolerating his opener just not being operation for several entire months. He figured, the problem wasn't that major, eh could lift the door himself over and over. So one day he picked me up in his pickup and took me to his house for some lunch and a chat, and as we're pulling into his driveway and his garage, he says to me, "hold on a sec," pops out of the car, runs over, and hauls the door up by hand. He then gets abck in the car and drives it in.
I was stunned. It may not seem like such a big deal, but anyone else would have sheepishly explained the situation as they did it, or complained to me about the door not working (seeing as it IS the area of my expertise.) But West, he just quietly dealt with it. And then when I asked him what the problem was, he shrugged it off and said he'd fix it himself. I warned him, garage doors can be very very dangerous. He seemed unperturbed, and actually mildly confused and uncomfortable with my concern for him.
He seems to be under the impression that no one ever in this world will ever help him with any problem he is having. He is constantly baffled by offers of help, or suggestions to go to a professional.
I think perhaps he wasn't raised with a strong parent figure who ever did things for him, os he's gotten used to just doing things himself, for better or for worse.
Posted by Erica on Monday, 22 August 2011
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Preserving the natural tree life in your backyard while also making home improvements can be difficult, especially if the tree is interfering with the installation of a new garage door. But it is possible.
Some homeowners might not care so much about preserving the original trees and natural flora of their backyard and driveway, but for others it is a very important goal.
The most important thing to do is gather information, first. You can not simply make such a decision without having facts about the situation. So, you should do some research about the trees in your areas and which ones are antive and therefore precious, and which ones are not as native or even thought of a pest trees.
Also, the age of the natural flora can contribute to the overall judgment if it's worth taking hte time to save. If you have a dilapidated twenty-year-old poplar tree, maybe you'd rather have your new driveway and your new garage door. But if your land includes gorgeous, centuries-old behemoth, you'd be doing your neighborhood an absolute disservice to cut it down in favor of a little redecoration.
Make sure to talk to family members, friends, and neighbors before coming to a final decision.
