I found out today that my car's problems are much more immediate and worse than I realized and I'm freaking out about having to find a new, used, affordable car. Especially since I'm scared to drive this one much more with how the damage is ongoing. (It's burning oil super-fast now, which is now also ruining the catalytic converter. The repairs for ( Read more... )

I got some important things done today, both of them card-related. My Queens library card needed to be renewed, which was easy. I still needed to transfer money from my current, expiring disability Metrocard to the new one, and that was once again a pain in the ass ( Read more... )

The MTA claimed they weren't affected at all by the Crowdstrike thing but when I traveled specifically to one of the few stations that still has a person in a booth to move my money off my expiring disability transit card to my new one, I was told their computer system was down so no transfers could be made. Two groups of people in front of me were ( Read more... )

On sunny summer days, if I have a choice I try not to go outside until late afternoon, when the sun isn't as intense, but today I had a doctor's appointment in Manhattan at 11 a.m. so I went out into the burning morning, my body and especially my skin protesting it.

While I was trudging the streets and sidewalks melting, I saw some things.


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( I may be stuck in a hole car-wise that I can't find or spend my way out of )

Another week of not feeling well.

I had a major car problem today. Depending on what happens tomorrow.... My current thought is it's a worsened transmission problem plus the thing I already suffered last week. Right now it looks like that thermostat clip-up didn't work for a week, didn't work for three miles (drove the car home from the shop, drove ( Read more... )

My car hasn't had a moment of shifting gears during a stop since I started driving by barely accelerating and not doing four-wheel stops in the early minutes so my engine/transmission could warm up more before I really started accelerating and decelerating. I'm still not confident enough about driving in the cold to try to drive to Manhattan at 3 ( Read more... )

Today I walked the earth, like Caine in Kung Fu.

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Given how much sleep I've needed lately, to get things done I try to strike while I'm alert. That led to me driving into Manhattan around 5:30 am Sunday to see if any of the Chinese New Year window displays I expected were still up. They weren't, but I did catch some interesting stuff, maybe because it's Fashion Week and a lot of stores tend to do ( Read more... )

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