u/arghyepirate

If anyone’s interested.

I wrote a psychological horror book. Roughly 75K words and I need a cover design for an 8.5x5.5 paperback.

The front cover is of a stone - a black/purple obsidian stone.

Two lines from the book, for exact tone: *"It was more like a gem. Glassy, and black for one minute, then purple the next. It was like looking at the night." "...held up high so the torchlight catches it, black-then-purple-then-black, is the stone."*

The defining quality is that it shifts. Obsidian black or bruised purple.

Would like the stone to sit alone, small with tons of negative space. Off-centered, left.

Palette:

Dark. Overwhelmingly dark. This is a horror book. Near black background - like night, a cold night. The only light is on the stone like a match or candle catching it. Single light source.

Leave space for typography - title and authors name. Please let the know if you have any questions.

I wrote a psychological horror book. Roughly 75K words and I need a cover design for an 8.5x5.5 paperback.

The front cover is of a stone - a black/purple obsidian stone.

Two lines from the book, for exact tone: "It was more like a gem. Glassy, and black for one minute, then purple the next. It was like looking at the night." "...held up high so the torchlight catches it, black-then-purple-then-black, is the stone."

The defining quality is that it shifts. Obsidian black or bruised purple.

Would like the stone to sit alone, small with tons of negative space. Off-centered, left.

Palette:

Dark. Overwhelmingly dark. This is a horror book. Near black background - like night, a cold night. The only light is on the stone like a match or candle catching it. Single light source.

Leave space for typography - title and authors name. Please let the know if you have any questions.

Last July I had a microdiscectomy for my L5/S1.

I haven’t recovered - pain has managed to get a lot better. However now having been a year out I have pain, numbness going down both sides. I even have bouts of caudia-equina when my inflammation gets to be too much.

I think the worst part in this entire thing is the effects it has on you sexually. When your entire saddle goes numb it’s like beating a dead stick. It’s very depressing.

Doc told me my facet joints are wearing out rapidly.
Which means I won’t be eligible for an artificial disc replacement. I’ll have to get a fusion, instead. Wish me luck - putting in for the ADR surgery.

First month in the car, drove 1700 miles. 1st ever speeding ticket today passing a car going 35 in the left lane on the interstate. Cop dgaf about other car said my speed wasn’t prudent.

In my gas car - at gas stations or 7/11 shops I would leave it running to run into the store.

Do you leave your mach e running for short stops? Takeout pickups? Why or why not?

When fast charging, I usually leave it running. Do you? Why or why not? The car will automatically shutdown though - found this out the other day.

Just had my charger installed - happy I won’t have to park a mile to charge level 2.

Ford charging station app - what is the point of this app? I’ve connected, paired but it doesn’t load the app. Forces me to repair.

How do I locate the battery health?

Blue cruise does not like sharp turns yikes. In DC on 295 the thing overcorrected into the shoulder and then back into the lane before flickering red and shutting down.

When the car gives you the number 100,99% efficiency what does that mean? I understand it has to do with the deceleration and that I’m being 100 or 97 efficient. But what’s the rate of return? How many or partial kWh?

What’s the kWh consumption per drive mode?

Is your blue cruise as squirrelly as mine? Constantly adjusting right, left, centering? Like a nervous teenager with their first experience. I half expected to be pulled over for drunk driving with how many corrections it had on my way to my In laws.

However the cool thing i discovered today was that the ford dealership near my in laws have four superchargers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachE/s/41RwMZJcas

Previous post.

CX90 broke down today less than two weeks after getting it back from dealer. I limped it to the ford dealership and asked to help me get into a mach e. We spent all morning but we found one nearby and its on its way over.

Initially - I wanted eruption green GT with the perf package, ventilated seats glass roo & bronze rims. - holy cow, I drove one of the workers car that had the installed exhaust sounds over the speakers which I thought was really cool but man does that thing move. I wanted it to be faster than my car and it's considerably faster.

However, I couldn't find one with a glass roof, (none left in the entire east coast) or ventilated seats and come to find out, the seats have cloth with leather sides and ventilated is not offered on GT. I cannot use heated seats broke my back in Afghanistan. But the premium DOES have ventilated seats, full leather, a glass roof, and more range. further, my payment will be really close to what I was paying prior. But the most bonkers of this whole process is that the GT is cheaper to ensure. I don't understand that considering it costs more.

so, another awesome part is ford is giving me 1500 for military disc, as opposed to the standard 500 and Mazda was a real dick about it. Like I had to jump through hoops for it. Ford, log in to this system and they had my information before I even showed up.

I didn't get the rims I wanted but, I got everything else, and it's the first car I've bought in the last ten years that had almost everything I wanted on it. In fact this car has a lot more. Cheers.

Edit: just finally drove it home left it charging there all day and wow, I didn’t get to test drive it but I am overjoyed.

got in my car today, after having just received it from 6 weeks due to the hybrid battery repair and the car was dead.

had it towed, wow, would you look at that, the car has another dead hybrid battery. That is only like ten days old?

so, 3 hybrid batteries, power steering x2, and its still turns on it own and Mazda refuses to try to fix it, 1 radiator, 4 tires in less than 20k miles, the new ones I put on, are already almost half worn out, and the countless other issues that I can't even care to take my time to list.

so, lemon law, here's the thing, its real easy to say go talk to a lawyer, but every lawyer I spoke to I had to pay a consultation fee, and everyone took my money and was like I won't take the case. That got old real fast. Just pissing money away. I even tried banding with a few others in MD to see if I can tort with them and since my case wasn't as strong as theirs they didn't want me to be included.

The federal lemon law - even harder to prove. It's like they put these laws out there to quiet the masses. This isn't the first time I've had to consider resorting to the court systems to settle stuff but everything is in the favor of the corporations it seems.

Mazda buyback? they offered 23K, I got more at Carmax, Carvana, and another dealer. Even Mazda didn't want their own car back and it was really laughable when they offered it I just told the guy to get f'd and couldn't stop laughing at the absurdity of it all.

anyway, I wasn't planning on buying a new car today, but I'm over it. Enjoy the platform, I wish it was better, but I won't lie to myself. Hell, even the dealer gave me 1500 for my military service, whereas Mazda were huge dicks about it that wanted the physical form and they only would give 500.

2024 MHEV 36K

I bought a cx90 two years ago over the Mach e because I needed a third row. Unfortunately this car has been a bit of a nightmare and has spent nearly two months in the shop for repairs. It’s currently there now, this time for its second battery replacement in less than 36K. It’s also had the power steering rack replaced twice, the radiation it burns through tires and overall it’s just a huge headache.

I’m going to take a huge hit on it and I keep falling back to the mach e. Aside from not having a third row it meets everything else I wanted.

What have been the major problems? A quick scan
Through the threads tell me roof paint, and some hj3rb issue(?) what’s that. Probably spelled it wrong.

What else?

What have you loved most? The 90 looks great and drives well but breaks often.

Has anyone as they've grown in their practice, found that breath counting no longer allowed you to advance to access concentration & jhanas?

I've begun to notice that I cannot make it there anymore with just breath counting alone. I have to transition to either loving-kindness or Tonglen. Sometimes listening for my heart beat and matching the cadence of my breaths works.

Also, last night, I had my first experience with extreme time distortion. I meditated for over an hour but tbh felt like 20 minutes. When I ended the sit I was like wow.

Anyway, wanted to ask the masses before I meet with my teacher in June.

2024 of course hybrid turbo

Engine - I-stop & hybrid malfunction. Stranded. 37k.

Power steering rack replaced at 22k & again at 35k.

Radiator at 20K

Tires replaced at 27K

Battery died & replaced at 5K

Idk guys. Ima bout ready to say f this car.

Edit: pulled my service records and updated post with everything so far. Will speak to lemon law attorney but I may be outside the window. Yeah Maryland is 18K and less than 2 years old.

Hi - during my therapy session today with an ifs therapist my therapist connected with an exile and uncovered a rather horrifying traumatic memory. Until now I never understood why I was always anxious around this person. Anyway, all they left me with was to take easy, the pain & grief will come in waves. And they’re right, like since then more memories are coming and I had to pull over before it became too overwhelming. But is there anything else I can do? Like I’m angry one minute but next I’m crying. Anger was the protector so I understand why that’s surfacing.

But wow I was skeptical about all of this and when the protector surfaced saying I couldn’t handle this person because I didn’t know who they really were. Holy f like I’m not in Kansas anymore.