While commuting last night and this morning, I've spotted a number of interesting vanity license plates ( Read more... )

My two nephews are participating in something called the "Pinewood Derby" as part of Cub Scouts. Basically, you build a little wooden car and roll it down a track. I did something similar when I was a kid, but it's all a bit slicker now. We started off the project down at the hardware store, where they had a guy with a bandsaw cutting out the ( Read more... )

It was extremely clever of me to arrange to drop my car off at the body shop and pick up a rental car during one of the biggest rainstorms we've had in months. It was even more clever of me to choose* a Volkswagen Jetta, knowing from experience that Volkswagen designs elegant yet unintuitive controls for their vehicles. This was confirmed when I ( Read more... )

Got off work, went for a nice stroll, had a nice dinner in Palo Alto with Daniel and his parents, who are in town for the summer. Driving back along University Ave., I reach an intersection where a driver is stopped for no reason I can determine. I stop too. Car behind me doesn't stop. Crunch ( Read more... )

Got a phone call from Daniel a couple of hours ago - he had a tire go out while he was driving on the freeway. Daniel's okay, car's okay, could have been much worse. Still, what are the odds?

Got the tire repatched this morning. The work was covered by warranty, and thus didn't cost me a dime. Nice. We'll see how long the patch holds out.

Daniel and I did get up to Berkeley on Saturday, and I did get comics: She Hulk: Single Green Female and She Hulk: Supernatural Law. I also picked up Naomi Novik's latest in the Temeraire series, an ( Read more... )

Having gotten the spare tire onto the car, I am now Officially Done with dealing with the car for the weekend. I'll take it to the tire store first thing Monday morning ( Read more... )

I go to leave for work this morning, and lo and behold, I have a flat tire. Again.

I swear, this happens to me every fall. I don't get it.

Sigh. I was actually having a good morning, before this happened.

Grumble.