Well…had to get this one out early today to give you a car update….don’t want to say so just yet but I may have fixed it…it has started every time since I replaced the switch Friday aft…but the one caveat is that it had resumed starting before I put the switch in…it was the best damn feeling having the thing turn over when I went out for the newspaper a few minutes ago. I did have a nice day yesterday….went out to have a couple with K and I’m a little confused that she is so concerned that I am alone right now…but I have resigned myself to living the rest of my life alone….no, resigned is not the right word…that denotes some sadness in my situation and I’m certainly not sad…I’m uniquely suited to being alone and I welcome the long silences that come with it…it’s one of the things I’ve always said, that I just love coming back here after being out and knowing there will be no one here…selfish maybe, but not sad. Not much to do today…..going to read the paper and continue on with a movie I started on Netflix when I got up….I’ll try to write more later but you know how that works on the weekend…
Oh, one thing I haven’t shared….got an e-mail saying that I can have free access to the NY Times for the rest of the year after their paywall goes up tomorrow….yay…I was really going to miss it….
Well…a fun day yesterday with talking to T all day and laughing like crazy…she just cracks me up and any day she is in is a good one…I did get the part for the car and it did start this morning so I have my fingers crossed that I found the problem and fixed it….but, the intermittent problem has taken the aura of reliability away and I won’t be sure I fixed it until it starts every time for a week or so. It was nice to not have to push the thing down the hill to start it….it was cocktail night last night so I don’t feel the best this morning but I may survive it…have the coffee going and I’m waiting for it to finish so I am going to stop here…not yet, not much to do today…might meet up with K for a couple later and there are races to watch….I might be back later but you know how it is on the weekend…
Well…kind of a bore of a day yesterday with the car being down….I never go anywhere anyway but it is different when you can’t go anywhere…I hope the part I’ve ordered is the one that has failed or I’ll have to take the wreck in to have it fixed…it has been such a reliable car but I think I’ve used it up and have to get started looking for a new one. If I can’t fix it, that will mean 4 or 5 days of not being able to go anywhere but the bike may be an option to go out for coffee…I don’t go on the weekends so maybe it will be warmer Monday. Not much to do today….I will have to push start the car since I do have to go to G’s and the bank this morning, and if I’m out, I might just as well go for coffee…will have to leave the car running for the whole time and that is kind of weird but you gotta do what you gotta do…..more later…
Well…it has just been one of those days where reality squashes my creativity and crowds out most other thoughts…and without the newspapers today, there was less raw data to draw from. So, you didn’t get anything topical but if you’ve been here before, you shouldn’t be surprised, I have these problems sometimes….I think part of it is that winter still won’t release it’s grip on Michigan and it is a pain to have car troubles when it is so cold….
I did get the paperwork into my financial guy…but I had to suit up and take the bike out to the mailbox since they didn’t deliver the mail here today…in a building with 6 units in it, you would think there would be some kind of mail for one of us…but nothing today and that included my Netflix dvd that was supposed to come today. Yep, I’m a little cranky…as you can tell…but maybe tomorrow things will be better….I will be able to pay my rent for April, after all…..more tomorrow…
Okay, here’s one topical thing that made me laugh so hard I thought I was going to cough up a lung…..Michelle Bachmann is going to run for president……don’t blame me if you die laughing…..
Well…the car is still not running so I didn’t go out for coffee and papers today which does put a cramp into my commentary…I am now reading the online papers to find a topic but it’s not going too well right now…I did just read an article by Brian Dickerson in the Detroit Free Press online that is almost an exact copy of mine from a couple of days ago…I don’t know if I’m to be flattered or a little irritated but I guess the truth is the truth no matter who says it. I’ll keep trying for a while but I’m not sure if I can get anything to form up….
Well…it was an okay day yesterday except that the car is giving me trouble again…I did order a part that I think is the problem but it won’t be in until Friday so I’ll just have to leave it running after I push start it…or it might start and that would be even better since it is slick. Had a nice surprise with a lunch with T that wasn’t planned and that made me smile the rest of the day…then, when I got back, my printer started working again….maybe the good luck will hold and I’ll win the 303 million in the lottery Friday…I can always hope. Not much to do today….just have to get the papers back in the mail to the financial guy and then probably clean this place up a little…and I promise I won’t do any more Manny columns….I will do the work to be lucid later and add something to the discourse…more later….
Well….fun day yesterday but feel like crap today…worth it, but haven’t felt like this in a while….I did lose at pool but it was a hard fought loss so I don’t feel bad about it. The frickin Netflix wasn’t working last night so I watched my concert dvd’s and may have had it too loud….did the DT thing, too, which always makes me cringe when I get up in the morning but I think my friends understand….hope so…not much to do today….need to keep trying to fix my printer and I think C is coming into town…might have a lunch with T if everything works out and that should be fun. As I said before….I feel a little crappy so I’m going to stop now…more later…
Well…an interesting day yesterday and I had a bunch of stuff to do which is really unusual as you know. I did get to meet my new financial guy and found out that I’ve made a bunch of money since December and I feel quite a bit better that I’m not going completely broke. The repair guys came for my dryer but there is more work to be done there so that makes more work for me in the next couple of days…oh, well. It looks like I’ll be able to pay the rent for April so I’m even going to go grocery shopping this morning…I am getting so tired of chicken that I’m not buying any this week, going to buy a lot of stuff that is bad for me but tastes really good and splurge a little…well…turkey isn’t that bad, is it? I am going to buy some chips and some burger but I only eat red meat about once a month now so that’s not too bad. Need to get some more broccoli, too. Not too much to do today…you already know part of it and I am going out to shoot pool today…the veil of darkness is starting to lift and the brain is working again so you may get three today….more later…
Well…a long night and day yesterday when I come to think of it….still kind of down and have shifted into low gear to cope with it…have a bunch of stuff to do today and none of it is anything I want to do…but that’s what life is getting to be like right now. Had to get this place ready for the maint guys to come and service my dryer…I guess they don’t want it to start on fire….it will be nice if they fix the vent since it has been dumping into the place for a couple of years…but it’s an electric dryer so no fumes…maybe that wouldn’t be bad…to have fumes, that is. Other than that, not much to do today….need to go out for supplies after I see my financial guy…a new one since Matt quit and I am not looking forward to meeting him…but I need cash to pay the rent so I guess it’s a necessary evil. I will try to get a couple out with new topics today….
Okay…here’s an update…battery was dead in the car this morning and the weird thing is that Tom and I talked about dead batteries yesterday…I was able to get it started by pushing it down the hill (something to be said for sticks) and left it running at Kava…it started after I pulled in here so maybe I just didn’t get the door closed after I went out for a paper yesterday…it might also be that I haven’t taken it anywhere except to coffee for the last two weeks and it gradually went dead….it is time for a new battery, though…about every three years…we’ll see if it starts when I have to go out later this morning…still going to park it in a hill when I stop, though…..
Well…this one is going to be short since I just have nothing to say…it looks like a curl up on the couch and lick the wounds day and I don’t know if I can even read the paper….so, more later after the darkness lifts….
Okay..still not much better but i still feel a responsibility to add a little more right now…had to clean up my washer and dryer since they are coming to service them tomorrow…and that means a lot of other work for me in the morning….I am looking forward to seeing if Michigan is real in NCAA’s against Duke this aft…I think they screwed Bristol up when they repaved it…it is just not as much fun to watch as it used to be…and you couldn’t get a ticket to go in person for almost 10 years but looking at the stands today it looks about 30% empty….and, as I’ve said, I hate these new cars….not much else to do today…need to take a shower and get ready for the game so I’ll stop here…