In case you all don't know already, never, ever buy your car parts from a dealership before checking online. I should know better. I have always done this, but I just got ripped off by Jim Coleman Honda like no tomorrow. Going over train tracks a few months ago, smashed up the plastic undercar protectors in the front of my Accord. Popped into ( Read more... )

So I went for a run this morning with Saima, after being a slacker for four months or so. Oh wow. My alertness here at work is probably double, my sense of smell sharpened, and I feel happy. All that, is a very big change from the normal, where I was cranky, sleepy, non-alert and needed usually more than one caffeine shot to get me going in the ( Read more... )

severe. burnout. every morning i feel like i've been hit by a truck. exhausted. physically. mentally. everything. yesterday morning i was sleepy when leaving for work and scraped the side of my accord on the bumper of the previa. damn does my car have some thin sheetmetal. it didn't just dent (four inches in), it tore. now i will duct tape ( Read more... )

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Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after he was found on the streets of the capital drunk and naked apart from bondage gear ( Read more... )

...is coming in handy for lubricating everything that squeaks in my home office/bedroom. I just filled a needlepoint applicator with it and have used it on door hinges, a squeaky hole punch, and my Victorinox SwissTool. It is colorless (clear) and odorless (UNLIKE 3-in-1) and what squeaked, squeaks no more ( Read more... )

...is to wreck the handwriting skills of a whole generation, and another one, of computer users. According to an article posted on the door of a professor in the Electrical Engineering dept., most schoolteachers in the DC district don't even bother teaching handwriting anymore. They blame a lack of capable teachers, no funding, and "even if the ( Read more... )

so this morning my dad found the tails of three young rats neatly arranged in a line on the back porch doormat...and a very sated Billee sunning herself. This evening she appeared at the back porch door with a baby mouse in her mouth, and mewing through her teeth to be let in. Now there are four tails on the doormat ( Read more... )

...from my Numerical Methods textbook. Heh, heh, heh.

...is that the larger and more expensive vehicle people drive, the more aggressively the SOB's tend to drive. Not using one's indicator when changing lanes is one of my pet peeves, as is people tailgating me in their Hummers and Mercedes-Benz S600s...and then as soon as they get a chance, they swoop into the lane next to me, and cut in front of me ( Read more... )