I'm very sorry if she tipped off anyone about your cunningly concealed herd of cows.

Simon ,'Safe'


Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


omnis_audis - Sep 22, 2010 11:45:29 am PDT #3671 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Gah. The check engine light is on in my car.
Step one: Open hood
Step two: Verify Engine is there
Step three: Nod Yes if it is indeed there
Step four: close hood

Viola. Task is done!

t /no help at all!

Yes, a trip to the auto shop of choice would be a great idea.


Daisy Jane - Sep 22, 2010 11:47:47 am PDT #3672 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I guess technically the first step should be to go to AutoZone and have them hook their magical thing up to tell me what code my check engine light is related to.

I wonder how much those magical things are.


Steph L. - Sep 22, 2010 11:48:36 am PDT #3673 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I guess technically the first step should be to go to AutoZone and have them hook their magical thing up to tell me what code my check engine light is related to.

I wonder how much those magical things are.

You mean, to have one of your own? Because I think the AutoZone people will do it for free.


tommyrot - Sep 22, 2010 11:48:59 am PDT #3674 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I wonder how much those magical things are.

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Shir - Sep 22, 2010 11:50:26 am PDT #3675 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Step three: Nod Yes if it is indeed there

I think you misspelled "Profit!".


Daisy Jane - Sep 22, 2010 11:58:17 am PDT #3676 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

You mean, to have one of your own? Because I think the AutoZone people will do it for free.

They do, but I have, I dunno, a thing. Like it would drive me nuts until I was able to get to the Auto Zone, and if I just had one in the car I would be able to just go, "Oh, okay! It's just the floozerwhatzitz!" and go about my business instead of getting my panties in a wad and going, "Click and Clack say it could be a sensor, but it can't be that all the time. OMG MY ENGINE IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE!!!"

You know, as you do.


Steph L. - Sep 22, 2010 12:01:38 pm PDT #3677 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

"Click and Clack say it could be a sensor, but it can't be that all the time. OMG MY ENGINE IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE!!!"

You know, as you do.

That's actually been the exact loop running through my brain for the past hour.

And now I leave to go home and freak The Boy out with it.


Daisy Jane - Sep 22, 2010 12:03:04 pm PDT #3678 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

But go to the AutoZone first so you'll know it's just the flooziwhatzitz!


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2010 12:06:54 pm PDT #3679 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I had a friend who had a cable and app he ran on his laptop that read VW chips. It was kinda nifty.


DavidS - Sep 22, 2010 1:46:34 pm PDT #3680 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Ugh. We got a call from Grattan Daycare and they have a slot open.

If this had happened - oh, a year ago - that would've been awesome and positively affected our lives.

Now, however, Matilda is ensconced and very happy at her daycare at UCSF. So we don't really want to make a change.

However. We can only afford to go to UCSF 3 days a week. So I've got her two days a week, and that severely limits my ability to bring in an income to freelancing.

We would pay less for five days a week at Grattan.

And Grattan is where we want her to go to kindergarten, so it would serve the dual purpose of (a) making that transition earlier; (b) give us a stronger chance (probably very high) that we would get Grattan in the extremely difficult school selection process.

Ugh. Really all the pluses are on the side of making the change except it will really make her unhappy.

The question is: will she be unhappy for a year? Months? Weeks? Days? Hours? Where's the tipping point to balance her unhappiness and upheaval versus the other benefits?