Friday was for dealing with the little stuff at work that had been neglected as we tried to gather as much supporting information as possible for the newest NSF grant. The grant is out. We'll hear back no earlier than October. Please don't ask before then.

Then mairi2 and I braved the HighlandFest for Harry Potter, which was absolutely worth seeing. ( Read more... )

My pie is baking. That means that it's time for silly. Since I don't get to eat the pie until tomorrow.

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Rest in peace, beloved scarf, which is probably getting driven over and pounded into the pavement of Grand Avenue as I type. That, or it has managed to totally conceal itself in Ellie's car, and we'll find it years later. I made that scarf about seven years ago, and it took me a long damn time. Partly because I kept ripping it out and starting ( Read more... )

So, when I take my car in to be welded back together, the repair is supposed to last more than a week, right? Because a drive to S'dy and $54 isn't bad for a car repair... unless you have to do it every five days.

Grr.

the hedge abides.

Carolyn and I dropped my car off this morning at the exhaust shop in S'dy that my mechanic said a lot of other customers recommended.

They called me half an hour ago- my car is done.

And it cost...

$64.

Sa-weeeet.

[EDIT: I misheard them on the phone. It didn't cost $64. It cost $54. Ha!]

the hedge abides.

Sputnik's got an appointment at the exhaust place in Schenectady on Wednesday. I've decided to go with the generic fix, because I'm not loaded. And because $1300 in parts is dumb, even if you are loaded. So I'll need new catalytic converters for sure, and I'll know soonish whether the current custom pipes can be reused. Then they do a bunch of ( Read more... )

I got the worst kind of message from my mechanic this morning: "we need to talk to you about how much your car is going to cost to fix before we start working on it ( Read more... )

Damn you people. My sleep schedule is totally fine. It's all y'all and your waking up early that's bonkers ( Read more... )

I have my car back! I love my car, despite everything. It may be time to look into working at price chopper overnights or something, though. I worry that they'll be even more neurotic about pink hair than Macy's was, though. I often see checkout people there with band-aids over facial piercings (a solution I just cannot get behind). I'm sick ( Read more... )

So, having slain the giantess who killed her father, Sputnik's family was avenged ( Read more... )