car got scraped up, again. not my fault, again. possibly happened in my own driveway, again. same exact damage (maybe a bit more severe), again. signs all point to the old dude, who denies it this time. argh ( Read more... )

this is making me want to cry. national texting championships? humans dressed as emoticons trying to distract contestants texting tongue twisters? texting while going through an obstacle course? i am surprised there wasn't a texting-while-driving round. AND, the winner's text bill once managed to be 294 pages. PAGES. wtfbbq ( Read more... )

last week i gave the old guy across the street a copy of the estimate for the bodywork required to fix the damage to my car--about $850. i talked with him on monday, and he said he wanted me to get a second estimate from his guy. ugh. so i got the second estimate this morning, after waiting 40 minutes for someone to show up. THEN they charged ( Read more... )

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earlier this evening, i was sitting in the office, which overlooks the dead end street and looks out onto the indian grandfather's house, talking to someone on the phone. i watched the family pile into this giant suv and the indian grandfather climb into the driver's seat. i watched him back his behemoth vehicle out of the driveway. i heard a ( Read more... )

DFW trip all freakin' week next week. i leave BOS at 8:30pm sunday and get back next fri around 7:30pm. i've been coordinating the transport of various bits of equipment down to the tower all week long--cameras, voice recorders, batteries... etc etc ( Read more... )

i am turning into a crankypants stressball today. why? OH, let me tell you.( the rage, the rage )

an article on how to continue abortion rights activism got me thinking, not only about how i perhaps should finally get off my butt and do something about the state of options for pregnant women, but also about how i have all sorts of perverse tendencies and latent rage ( Read more... )

it's no secret that i'm a bit of a language/spelling/grammar dork. the boy, however, is an abysmal speller. today we were g-chatting about trees, and he said something about a "fur tree". i snickered and wrote back, "fur trees? PETA would have a field day with those". he wrote back with a mini-rant on how vowels are all the same and have no ( Read more... )

argh. i was just at the grocery store, where i realized that in the bay area, baggers are much more highly trained than here. perhaps my sample size is skewed, though, as i usually use the self checkout here. or maybe people in the bay area just have more common sense ( Read more... )