Had my auto maintenance stuff dealt with today. It turns out that either the previous owner, or the dealership, should've replaced the spark plugs in my car before I bought it. Considering that this same dealership failed to so much as inform me that the spare tire was flat so that I could replace it (instead leaving me to find out the hard way), I ( Read more... )

Some of the things I've been thinking about recently beg the question of how I define "success" at the game of life. The simplest articulation that I've been able to come up with is "success is living my life the way that I want to live it". That hardly means getting what I want - a lot of that isn't even available in our civilization. But it does ( Read more... )

I reached my only 'official' goal for 2006, which was to have health insurance for all of it. Even with all the problems it's given me, it's still better than nothing ( Read more... )