I had a very expensive repair needed (again) for my car today--like "pay this to get it fixed or your front wheels will stop working and/or come off"--but I still had a better car day than the neighbor who found out his SUV had been smashed from behind last night with the collider somehow taking off and vacating the scene. Seeing the damage, I have ( Read more... )

I found a substantial dent in the back passenger door of my car today. Some paint is scraped off, and one part of the door's edge no longer lies flat against the frame, though at least the door still opens and closes. I say "found," because as is usual for neighbors scraping or hitting my car, the perpetrator was too chicken to leave any ( Read more... )

Having suffered long enough, today I opened up and rearranged my air conditioner in its wall hole, something that also requires moving a lot of everything in my small bedroom to even get in there. It's the first time I didn't have help, since my dad now has even stronger restrictions about lifting things after his recent surgery than I do from my ( Read more... )

I finally got my cell phone photos transferred, so now you can see the disaster I wanted to show you guys when my downstairs neighbor's car rammed my parked car at what must have been ludicrous speed in January 2012, an event that occasionally haunts me as I look for new car insurance today. I am so glad I wasn't in it when this happened. ( photos of wtf )

People are talking about going to Escapade this year, which makes me wistful as usual. The one time I went over a decade ago I really enjoyed it and figured I'd come back someday ( Read more... )

I waited in an over-air-conditioned room at Honda Service for three hours for my car, only to have them tell me at the end that it turns out they need an inflator they don't have and wouldn't know that in advance just from knowing the make and year, so they have to order the part, which will arrive Tuesday, and I have to come back and wait for ( Read more... )

My car's odometer flipped over to 100,000 miles today, especially amazing considering all the craziness in January 2012 that made me almost give Civic up. In less happy news, the side back bumper on the driver's side was scraped while my poor Civic was parked and minding its own business. Once again, my neighborhood is one of the reasons I can't ( Read more... )

I spent $410 on my car today, though not on struts as I expected. Frank from the body shop that fixed my car after the accident has been hard to reach. I called him a week ago Friday and left a message and still hadn't heard from him today, so I called again today and didn't reach him again but left a message ( Read more... )

Today was eventful.

A chunk of filling in one of the teeth filled in January came out while I was brushing my teeth, leaving a deep hole with sharp edges. I had to get that filled. I think it was a matter of the filling material being faulty because the piece that came out was so smooth.

I got a letter from Enterprise Rental Car that although ( Read more... )

I can't sleep. For some unknown reason I opened up some of today's mail before going to bed and found a notice from Bank of America that State Farm didn't pay the check for the $6,257 I cashed for my car. State Farm's claim department doesn't open until 7 a.m. State Farm's 24-hour "good neighbor" service has nothing to do with claims and can't ( Read more... )