Yesterday when moving my car, I noticed the prndl stick was sort of sticky. It was difficult to switch from Park to Reverse to Drive. It's been slowly getting sort of difficult to move, and I don't drive my car very often anymore, so I assumed it was gunked up and I'd just lube the heck out of it. Today I tried to start the car, and surprise, nothing happened. The electrical system was working, but the brake wouldn't really depress. I wonder if one of the cables or sensors connecting the brake to the gearshift has been declining (rusting?) and the non use sped that up. Anyway, the point is that I can't turn my car on, so I'm going to have someone come give me a hypothetical diagnosis and see if it's anything we can fix by simply rehooking a line or something. If not, I will get it towed to the dealership where I will proceed to drop a shitload of money into the car to get it operable again.

Thank God Garvin and I are carpooling right now.

I'm aggravated because I'm still making payments on my car. I know that maintenance and repairs are a part of car ownership, so that's not what bothers me. The car's actually been pretty good. Still---it sucks to sink money into something not fully paid off. I will continue to throw money at it until the frame falls apart, or I have to shove it off a bridge for insurance money, because this whole car payment thing is just not fabulous and when I'm done I want to put it off as long as possible.

Also, we found a plum tree in our yard, and two days later the plum tree fell over. Skip and Bryan hacked it up today with an axe. Easy come, easy go? I liked that tree, and now we'll need to find something else to support our grapevine, since the grapes were growing into the tree. The grapes are just starting to form, and I don't want to bruise them. Stuffed grape leaves, anyone?

I played Wii fit for the first time today, and it was fun, although the Wii is rather judgmental. It makes you set weight goals! Seriously? No. I made my goal to not change for a year, even though it yelled at me that my BMI is sickly and shrunk my Mii to an atrophied little stringbean. Wii fails to take into account the three body types. I resent the video game assuming I'm a mesomorph.

First society, now Wii fit! Uncool, dudes.

Here's how I imagine this whole rebellion thing got started:

Some dudes were sitting around on the docks one night after partaking of some of this country's fine "tobacco" cop. Have you ever wondered if "tobacco" is a euphemism for "marijuana?" Imagine that it is.

Dude one: "Maaan, my stomach doth feel the acheth of emptiness. Dost thou knwoest of a Taco Bell nearby?"

Dude two: "Thou art trippin, good Sir. Taco Bell has not been invented yet."

Dude one: "Surely this dock must harbor a delicious import from afar. Here! What is in this crate?"

Dude two: "Tea."

Dude one: "TEA?! Nay, I requireth something gooey and melty. What lies in yonder crate?"

Dude two (giggling to himself); "Tea."

Dude one: "Silence! Heeeeey....what if we, liketh, dumped ALL the tea into the harbor? Then we could bath our musky, unwashed colonial bodies in it and we could, liketh, ABSORB THE TEA?!"

Dude two (collapsing into laughter): "Awww, man....let's doeth it!"


The rest is history.
If it HAD happened like this, I'm pretty sure I would have paid more attention during fifth grade social studies.