Hec, what kind of car is it?

98 Geo Prizm.

If the car's totally FUBAR I get the bonus of an 8 hour bus ride to SF.

It's just...we've already spent $1,250 we couldn't afford (at all) on this car in the last month: $1,000 to get the boot off, and $250 for the window. We only paid about $3,000 for the car in the first place.

But I've got to have a car to get Emmett back and forth. This is forcing our hand to look at pulling Matilda out of preschool and having me stay home with her to save the money. ($1,100/month)

But then I can't really job hunt because there's no place to put Matilda if I do get a job. She'd lose her spot at the preschool quickly (two year waitlist).

But she'll have another opening at a different preschool come September. And that place is cheaper. So might could just do it until then.

Aww, fuck. I'm feeling so failure-ish on the provider front.

Weirdly, I've been working really hard this month: wrote liner notes for a couple hundred, wrote several HiLo pieces and my next will be my 10th and I'll get a check. Unbooting the car, getting it fixed, baseball with Emmett, putting in about 30 hours of work on the iSearch, driving 6 hours on 3 1/2 hours sleep to do the bus tour and make some money. Did some job hunting in there and got a hit on my resume - that didn't pay off but, pushing on that front.

So a lot of scraping to little avail.

I'd much rather have a 9 to 5 to show up for with a cup of coffee in my hand then be in nonstop hustle mode.

Earthquake? Wobbly building.

Yeah, I still feel like I'm swaying.

6.9 in Baja. Whoa.

Dude, my mom just called from Camarillo asking about the quake. Link?

Damn. All the way from Baja. That's not good.

Quake report: [link]

Yikes!

Dammit, I tried to fill out the "did you feel it?" questionnaire and it won't take my final submission. I am so not doing it again in another browser.

That's really not good.

Thanks for the link, ita. My ninja-fast shakemap finding skills have suffered since leaving SoCal, clearly.

But I've got to have a car to get Emmett back and forth. This is forcing our hand to look at pulling Matilda out of preschool and having me stay home with her to save the money. ($1,100/month)

But then I can't really job hunt because there's no place to put Matilda if I do get a job. She'd lose her spot at the preschool quickly (two year waitlist).

Hec, have you looked at ModestNeeds.org? They're kind of built for people who are getting by until one unexpected expense screws everything. (So car repairs turn up on the applications fairly regularly.)