The money set aside for our property taxes just went to fix Elric's car: the entire exhaust system and catalytic converter rusted out and broke in half, leading to a disaster costing almost $700. Everything I had ( Read more... )

The appointment with the PCP was unexpectedly short -- he had a student with him, which means the student took up 25 min of my 40-min appointment taking a history. A history. Which is (1) contained in my documentation, which goes back 30 years, and (2) is already known very well by my PCP. And then he had to go give said history to the PCP. Another ( Read more... )

Business picked up a tad today, but we're still averaging about $30/day during the 5 days a week we're open right now. This is not sustainable. If it's a usual year, after July 4 we'll start to get much more business, but last year that didn't happen; even through summer, fall, and Christmas we did less than half our usual business ( Read more... )