a new car! (That's not the actual car, just an image I snitched from a dealer's site ( Read more... )

A stuck idiot. I stupidly tried to go to work today. Got the car out of its spot, most of the way down the alley, and then got stuck right at the entrance to the alley. Called AAA, they came and said that the snow mounds prevented them from getting their truck positioned. So they couldn't help. We've been trying the old standbys - cardboard ( Read more... )

Just before I got to work yesterday, my car started making a horrible, high-pitched squealing noise. Not wanting to be stuck somewhere in cold and snow, the first thing I did when I got back from court was to make an appointment to take it in for service, and put in for the day off. Naturally, when I left work, nada, niente, nothing. Quiet as ( Read more... )

The first day of spring was marked by the last opera of the season. Operas, actually, as it was Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, which are nearly always paired. Mark Delavan was Alfio in Cav and Tonio in Pag; otherwise, the casts were completely different, but both were excellent ( Read more... )