Got the first step in fixing the Subaru done, and picked it up today (new calipers, rotor, pads, transmission cable and bushings...). In excess of $1K.(*insert happy cash-register sound here, followed by short gasp*) Good thing Barclay just raised the limit on my credit card ( Read more... )

Someday I will write about these last few days. About cars and pooling. About hemorrhages of cash. About sounds and grindings when LEAVING the place of repair. About Peter and Paul and the robbing and paying thereof ( Read more... )

Graded until a bit after 10, so brain is too active to let me sleep ( Read more... )

This week has been a strange one. There has been vehicle drama (sing with me now "Dead car in the middle of the road/Dead car in the middle of the road..."), followed by less than successful rescue/salvage attempts, mechanic magic, and the final pronouncement "it could die on you in two days or go five years...it's a crapshoot." Then there was the ( Read more... )

The monsters of grief and loneliness are scratching at the door, but I'm resolutely keeping the door shut. I don't have time right now to let them in, deal with them, in the face of everything else that must get done, attended to, finished ( Read more... )

FWIW, I hate XPlay in its current incarnation. But I guess I'm not the primary target audience.

So...( Cut for those who aren't into melancholy at the moment )

It came!! This is as gorgeous as I could have hoped for.

These are worth every penny (and probably would be worth paying more for, but don't tell KnitPicks).

I'm going to this this afternoon, especially since I use this when I teach this.

Tomorrow the Forester may be done. I may go drinking with the department tonight. Or not. Last time I went, he ( Read more... )

...for them to fix my car. New transmission cable. Supposed to take an hour/hour and a half. And, well, brakes ( Read more... )

-Ping is really enjoying his "little-brother-free" evening ( Read more... )

Work phoo
Car phoo
Boy birthday postponed due to Masonic phoo (but he did get a card, dammit!)
That is all.