IOQCN, I'm going through it from the beginning for the second time.

Huh. Me too. Why are we doing that? Did he make some anniversary comment?

I tend to hit "Random" a lot before I go to bed. I loves me some Hanners.

There is an app for telling whether a watermelon is ripe.

There's a story up about my car on a site called leftlane news, and they just called me to confirm some things.

I can't get to it here...it doesn't say I'm craxy, does it?

Burrell, hope the followup to your mammo is as full of nothing as mine was last week (and is considerably less painful!!).

Zuma Rossdale is a cutie.

I have to work out if it's worth asking the CIO for an exception so I can get email and calendaring on my tablet. It passes the security bar (system-level encryption), but they haven't tested it yet. Worth making a noise about? Hmmm.

I need to do laundry tonight. I'm either going to wear this shirt or this one to suck up to my boss.

Speaking of Jason Momoa ... in a radio review over the weekend the reviewer referred to him as "Joshua" Momoa. Of course, according to the reviewer, Conan is from "Crimea". sigh

Oh, and Burrell - even if they do a biopsy, it might well be nothing. My first mammo, they called me back for ... something more definitive ... and ended up doing a biopsy. It was nothing (nothing to worry about, anyway). So, regardless of what happens, it's probably nothing to worry about.

Fingers crossed for nothing, Burrell.

Allyson, I can't get that site to open right now.

Also, Peru apparently had a 6.8 earthquake today.

The article is here [link]

They don't say you're crazy.

In a rather bizarre case, the owner of a “well-maintained” 2004 Chevrolet Cavalier recently had the misfortune of a $50 replacement part break while driving, and after a series of events, was told by a dealer that her car must be scrapped.

While this may sound unbelievable or as if the whole story isn’t being told, it’s actually true. The problem rests in the fact that the part that broke (part of the accelerator pedal) is no longer being manufactured or available and due to federal safety laws cannot be replaced with a used part – rendering the car totally undrivable on public roads.

The owner of the car, blogger “Paperdol” took to the Web to share her story in hopes of a solution. PaperDol says that the entire mess began two weeks ago when she thought her foot slipped on the accelerator pedal, only to realize the pedal itself had broken and was loose.

The owner then took her car to her trusted mechanic of 10 years, who identified the need for a $50 replacement GM part. After searching, her mechanic was unable to find the part and sent PaperDol and her undrivable car to a local Chevrolet dealer, Allen Gwynn Chevrolet, in Glendale, California.

That’s when the “nightmare of mind-searingly bad customer service” began, according to her blog. The dealer first said the part was on its way, but that obviously wasn’t the case as no example of the part exist on any online inventory list. In fact, it was determined that the final example of the part was sold just three weeks prior.

Once the mechanic at the dealer realized that fact, he reportedly told the vehicle’s owner, “There are no guarantees in life,” in response to frustration.

To make matters worse, the dealer then apparently attempted to push the Cavalier’s owner to purchase a new Chevy, something she said couldn’t afford and had planned to do in a year. The dealer went as far as to propose seven-year financing as a means to make the new car fit in her budget, to which PaperDol questioned why she would buy another Chevy that could potentially be rendered useless on the day she makes her last payment.

A seemingly fair question, but GM corporate has so far only promised to “get back to her,” without yet contracting her with any solutions.

As of today, PaperDol has no resolution from GM or the Chevy dealer, but did joke that while she had intended to trade her car in for a Camaro in 2012, “[now] the Mustang looks good."

Whether GM has any control to restart production of the part at this point is unclear, but Leftlane has placed e-mails to both the owner and GM regarding the matter. Stay tuned for updates, as this one owner’s problem will inevitably spread to others who find themselves in the same situation if no solution is found.

Stay tuned for updates, as this one owner’s problem will inevitably spread to others who find themselves in the same situation if no solution is found.

Exactly! You are not the first and won't be the last person this is happening to. Now if only GM would get sufficiently embarrassed to do something about it.