I got my Forte back with, as far as I'm aware, all requested corrections and repairs. GEICO was a boss, they told me I could drive my rental to the repair place to make sure my Forte was good first instead of returning the rental then looking at my Forte. I mentioned in my Karening that on Monday when I gave up my rental first I felt trapped for ( Read more... )

From reeby10, for the December Posting Meme: What's the first thing you remember watching in theaters? Did you like it then and do you like it now?I don't actually remember being in theaters watching movies as a child for some reason. I remember loving how a local Queens theater in the '70s showed classic Disney animated movies in the summer, something ( Read more... )

My car-related hell continues. Waited at a place for two hours, alone for 95% of the time, after the scheduled pickup time, only to find out then there's still a missing disc-shaped piece of the bumper they're waiting to have arrive, and there are three. new. dents. that weren't there when I gave them the car November 22nd! So I'm scheduled to come ( Read more... )

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My horrible month continues to be horrible. My car hit someone's car Friday. Because he sped up but that's unprovable so fault looks 100% mine. I haven't had an accident prior to this for over five years. No injuries at least ( Read more... )

The Kia Forte, with fence shadows.

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Amazing. I went into Manhattan tonight to see the Christmas windows, only to find out once there that Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Kleinfeld Bridal still haven't unveiled theirs and haven't announced dates for when they will. C'mon, it's the 19th already. I'm glad I didn't try the 16th, which was the original plan. Meanwhile, ( Read more... )

I've been getting some kudos in the last few days on an X-Files fic I wrote in 1998, "Addictions." I wondered where it's being recced.

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It's funny reading Thousand Autumns after the other danmei I've been doing like Heaven Official's Blessing, The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, and The Husky and His ( Read more... )

Getting some kudos and a few small comments on my old X-Files fic led to me reading some of them, and I'm wondering if the lusher, somewhat more florid writing there, also with more metaphors and similes, is because I read more published fiction back then while these days read a lot of fanfic and Chinese danmei (which has some similarities to ( Read more... )

My credit check for the car was not approved; they didn't feel I get enough money a month. We're trying different configurations of things to try to make this work. The wrangling continues tomorrow.