I got the car back today.  The repairs cost less than $2000... but only before sales tax.

We're still going to pay the other half of the furniture purchase so as not to waste the first half, and we still need a mattress set.

But other than that, we'll have to be careful.

I think that means we'll have to find a free place to stay tomorrow night in ( Read more... )

Three things I accomplished today, my second day of medical leave:

• After a successful saving throw vs. constitution at 6:30 in the freaking morning, I got my car into the garage and arranged a rental while they're working on it (squeaking brakes are a lot easier to ignore than a check-engine light and an engine that idles at 800rpm, no make that ( Read more... )

Three things that made me happy today:

• Helping the people looking for Jim Gray
• Playing chess with a stranger and with a friend I went to high school with
• Thinking about my friend Toad enjoying a hoppy birthday

Three things I did right today:

• Put photos of Pied onto Jodi's iPod
• Got the car to the garage and back again (even though I'll have to do it again ( Read more... )

Three things that made me happy yesterday:

• Finding out that some of my PaperBackSwap books have arrived in their new homes
• Reading a Callahan's Crosstime Saloon short story ("Dog Day Evening") to Jodi
• Learning how to use Google SketchUp (work-in-progress below)
  
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The car won't be ready for the weekend; most of the work has been done, but the body shop discovered that the headlights they ordered didn't include some hardware that was necessary for mounting them in place.  So those will arrive Monday, and I'll likely have my car back on Monday.

Tomorrow morning, we were planning to go to Davis Island to meet ( Read more... )

State Farm has agreed to pay to repair my car, minus the deductible; after talking to the body shop about the procedure, I've authorized them to do the work.  They'll begin Monday morning.

I'm taking the online class now.  As predicted by the helpful folks in ( Read more... )

I'm renting a gray 2006 Hyundai Accent (interior, exterior).  It fits me well, although the rear-view mirror hangs lower than I'd like; traffic approaching from behind will look like traffic coming from the right until my brain retrains.  The error seems to be on the side of caution, though, so that's okay.  And the contract-negotiated price, ( Read more... )

I've spent the last hour trying to get a rental car.  Various branches have been suggesting I call each other, and one eventually said they'd call around to find me something.  They'll call me back when they have something for me ( Read more... )

I got into a crash this evening.  Here's the front of my car:


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