I bitch more than I probably should about bad drivers, I admit it. But every so often, there's an incident that makes me feel justified in my jaw-on-floor awe of the stupidity they allow behind the wheel ( Read more... )

Friday was an extraordinarily disappointing day. Some of you, I've gone over these details with, go ahead and skip this (though there's probably more detail here than I shared with most of you ( Read more... )

I know I said I'd do this today, and for once I'll be keeping my promise to do something on a specific date (and it's not as if going to bed now would help, since I know I wouldn't be able to sleep anyway ( Read more... )

Work fucking sucked. More than it should have for the six hours and change that I was there ( Read more... )

Watching your car be towed is the most helpless feeling. Certainly so at least in my life. I was standing them there watching the tow truck crew loading her up, and I was feeling so powerless, like I've never felt before ( Read more... )

A story from work I forgot to relate: Sunday before last (I think) I had a young woman whose last name was Amato. That happens to be my paternal grandmother's maiden name, and she had the distinctive unibrow that's common to that part of my family. I struck up a brief conversation. It was interesting ( Read more... )

Got the oil changed in my car before I had to go to work. The timing was perfect. I'll have to remember that they're open on Saturdays (I didn't know that) and that they're a lot less busy in the mornings ( Read more... )

Took Fatphin (pyrophin) to the airport today. That was about 90 miles. The weirdest thing happened at the Fletcher / Nebraska intersection. The cops were directing traffic a block around, due to a telephone pole having fallen (or been taken out by other means) and flattening the roof of a Toyota. The amusing part was that the Toyota was parked in the ( Read more... )

I've bitched about it before, but on the way home from work tonight, I was almost slammed into by some asshole in a minivan who didn't signal a lane change in crowded traffic. She almost slammed into my driver's side fender. Would have, if I hadn't stomped the brakes and laid on the horn. Took a good couple of seconds for her to get the message and ( Read more... )

I did what I said I was planning on.

First, I left the house today shortly before noon to go pick Fatphin (pyrophin) up in Seminole to take him to the airport. I was almost a half hour early, so I stopped into a shady used car dealer who had a couple of Escorts on his lot. A silver 1995 and a red 1993. The red one (despite being older) seemed to be in ( Read more... )