Thanks for the pics, tommyrot.

Crappity crap, sj. Any chance you know how old your battery is?

Crappity crap, sj. Any chance you know how old your battery is?

I know I have changed the battery in this car at least once, but I don't remember when. If it was the battery wouldn't it just not make any noise at all?

Well, CRAP, Brenda. That's a big stinkin' truckload of no damn good. I hereby smite those in charge of the decision with the anxious cooties of a thousand thousand sweaty-palmed nerds.

ION, I've just skipped over 500 posts to say: I have a second job interview today at 11 am. It's 30 hours a week and benefit-free, so I do hope they're not going to insist on 5 days a week. The benefit of working part-time is the free time, dudes. Puh-lease.

Any ~ma will be greatly appreciated, especially if aimed at making my back pain recede during the appointment. It probably would look quite bad if I yelped or winced while getting up. Stoopid back. And after all the yoga, heat patches, hot tubbing and stretching it's been treated to lately. SO ungrateful.

I've called the mechanic that thessally recommended, since I don't have a mechanic here yet. He is going to call me back, so I am eating, because it is the only thing I can do right now.

Interview~ma and back~ma, KB.

What is it with the bad jobma this week? Did we piss off an elder god or something?

ION, this link is especially for Aimee.

GIANT CAMELS!

I want one.

This is not a surprise.

And here's one for Jilli.

Oy, I think I need a personal banker. But they probably charge money that I can't afford, which defeats the purpose.

Actually, the lady I work with is at Wachovia, my bank, and it doesn't cost me anything. I started working with her years ago when my company made some sort of deal with the bank (it wasn't Wachovia then...some bank that Wachovia subsequently subsumed) to come talk to the employees here about changing banks or whatever. It was a good time for me to change so I opened an account. So my PB helped me open my account and then she'll call every 6 months or so to find out if I have any new financial issues or questions. I don't think I did my initial mortgage through them but a year or so after I bought my house she helped me refinance and then get a line of credit and she's done other things for me over the years. And now she's helping me get a new mortgage that will let me consolidate all my stupid credit card debt AND it's going to shorten the length of my loan AND cut my monthly payment substantially (where Wachovia makes the money off of me is that now they will hold my mortgage, see?). She's using some kind of financial voodoo I guess. And she's also very patient and not condescending with me even though I'm a financial idiot basically.

Pouring out the good-job~ma to Brenda and KatieB and ita.