this week has been anything but good for me, really. on tuesday i was headed to tilton when my engine decided it was time to ping once or twice, then blow more smoke than the last two years of the clinton administration. it's gone. kaput. the engine blew and what remains of my tiny, rusty, old, weathered and beaten car is laid to rest at some junk ( Read more... )

i've become stupidly aware that i never post here. i emphasize "here" because i also have the myspace...though i never update there either. frankly, i am a bad updater. but i've had this idea about doing actual blog type stuff...a weekly essay, like a bad column. but i'm not sure ( Read more... )

today i submitted my last paper of my last class...and i'm sad. i have now earned my masters degree, and i'm thrilled about that, but i sort of love being in school a whole lot, and now i'm not anymore ( Read more... )

i got my car back the other day. all the work came to just shy of a thousand dollars, but on the bright side it's running like it's a mere twelve years old ( Read more... )

car update: it was towed to certified mechanics of plymouth. they called and told me i needed a timing belt and it would cost 3-400 dollars. then they called back and said i needed new engine valves, and it was all adding up to just over a grand...a tad more than the retail value for my car. so, i stated looking for a new one ( Read more... )

after it snowed the other day, i moved my car to shovel around the space in which it was parked, but when i went to start it the next day, in all six degrees of warmth, the engine turned a few times but just couldn't fire. i checked it again yesterday and just a little while ago, but i had no luck. bear in mind that my automotive savvy ends where ( Read more... )

since we moved into our house in holderness, i've been more active than i have been in years, including a daily workout that kicks my ass, and i feel great because of it ( Read more... )

actual story taken from cnn.com (well, just the first few paragraphs ( Read more... )

we have a new bird feeder, but it's lonely right now. it has been hanging from that tree for a good fifteen to twenty minutes, and not one bird ( Read more... )

i stumbled across this earlier, then hid in the basement because i didn't want to get picked up for all that seaweed i've picked up in my lifetime ( Read more... )