And now I'm curious what romantic line was happening two millennia ago. When the Virgin Mary told Gabriel, "You had me at hello"?

...and not just a little "ewww"

Hmm. Romantic lines from two millenia ago? "Is that a xiphos under your toga, or are you just glad to see me?"

Nah, probably considered tacky even 2000 years ago.

Anyone up and around?

I am. I'm stuck at home becuase my car won't start.

What'd you need?

Stupid car not starting for Askye! Bad car, no turtle wax for you.

I'm worried it will be more than the battery. I need to change the oil, and I haven't, so I have maybe an irrational fear that I've totally and completely fucked my car and it cost hundreds of dollars to fix.

That depends on if you needed an oil change a couple thousand miles (generally speaking pushing the Oil change issue by three zeroes is, well, not wonderful, but not drastic) ago or by 50,000 miles.

Did you get the tick-tick-tick of dead battery-ness when you turned the key? This is more sympathy/curiosity than any actual hope that I have a clue about your car problem.

It never hurts to jiggle the battery cables and clean the terminal connectors. Unless one has an uncontrollable urge to do so with one's tongue. You most likely have been more able to stay on top of your vehicle maintenance than I was at one point. Because I can remember a time when for "jiggle the cables" I had to, on more than one occation, remove the connectors, peal back some of the insulation, clean corrosion out of the cables as far back as I could with a pen knife or screw driver, trim off damaged bits on the very end of the cable, and put the connectors back on. Again.

The car sputters when I tried to start it. definitly a sputter.

Dad came by and said it sounds like it might be the battery, but neither of us have jumper cables so he went off to get those if the car starts (please god) then I'll be off to get a new battery and waste more of my day doing that.

I have got to talk to my supervisor and find out how close I am to being permenant, I know they are working for it, and this no benefits thing is killing.

Oy. Car-ma, askye (also job-ma, but that comes without the linguistic irony)

General-ma to Fay and car-ma to askye.

Wow. What a coldblooded thing to say about someone. I suck.

Nah. If anything, you're doing him a kindness in realizing this now and acting accordingly, rather than just going along with the relationship out of boredom or politeness until you have to break his heart.

Fooey on askye's nonstarting car.