Back to work today in the newly-fixed car. During the drive to work----paraphrasing what my father used to say----my ass was so tight with nerves, you couldn't have driven a railroad spike up it with a sledgehammer. Made it there and back OK......no car incidents........which I count as a positive. Little victories. One day at a time. Etc ( Read more... )

Got the car. All told, $840 [w/rental]. Oh...and the drivers side door won't open from the inside now. [The outside can be opened, but pulling it askew, and has been that way for a while; according to them, they're connected and 'the link to the inside latch just happened to finally break while we had it.' Still, it runs ( Read more... )

Between the fever/coughing yesterday and the fact that I'm driving a rental car on wehat promises to be an early treacherous road spell.....no work today. Felt bad about it until my boss said he was leaving at 9 [he lives in Granbury and the roads were already getting interesting in Tarrant County.] Am cancelling the appointment, as I'm not sure if ( Read more... )

Welll....went for trying to fix the car.....least of two evils. Should know something tomorrow. Running a fever now, so maybe the antibiotics are doing their thing.

Things are seldom as bad as you conjure them to be in your mind, are they?

Went to the doc ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Ooh, scary!

Don't know if any of you have MySpace accounts, but I have one there, too [handle, of course, is Treblephone ( Read more... )

Enjoyed the fruits of a clean house. I've noticed that it makes my mood better when the house does not look like the Library of Congress after a hurricane ( Read more... )

Went to Lollipop Shoppe tonight at The Cavern. Made it for the last two songs of Silk Stocking...can't really come up with a comparison at this time of night, but they were interesting and I wish I'd got there earlier. Black Arm Band was really good. [Takes balls to open with an Otis Redding song, too.] Had the energy, the songs, and the playing ( Read more... )