On Life and Love

Whatever is making or breaking my day.

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    Oh, for the love of… a gas cap?

    9/6/2006 /

    So that Check Engine light? Totally my damn gas cap not being fully tightened. I’m usually pretty careful about that shit, courtesy of watching too many Hollywood movies where cars blow up if anyone looks at the gas tank the wrong way. I was charged 30 bucks for that shit, too. Frown. While I was there, I went ahead got some other maintenance done (i.e. got some near-broke shit fixed): I got my drive and timing belts replaced. Based on a quote I’d had from about a year before, I thought I should be out $500, but it was only $300. Shit, my ass doesn’t even know what a drive…

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    Just one of them days

    9/5/2006 /

    I got a physical today, and got some surprising (but not more than vaguely scary or bad) news. My car’s “Check Engine” light turned on… and is staying on. Car problems are sadly expensive, and this one (whatever it is) will also require me to be at the shop at 08:00, and possibly to miss class and more work. I got weighed today. Frown. WO and I are both short on sleep, so we’re tired, emotional, and grumpy. Did I mention that car problems are expensive? I didn’t meditate today. I didn’t eat well today. I didn’t get any exercise today. I’m sore as hell from yesterday’s weight-lifting–my first since…

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    Midnight linkage

    8/30/2006 /

    To Grow Roots, or Not Grow Roots: That Is the Question | BlogHer » I tend to feel the same jealousy this woman does when my friends can point out their elementary and middle schools and were in the same school district for longer than two years. Mobility has its advantages, but having a home may have more.

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