I'd be pretty freaked, if my car was out of service for a long time. I'd have to come up with some sort of solution to get to work. There's no public transportation, and we're really not set up to move closer right now.

I'm glad your online campaign is making waves, Allyson. That's a huge fuck-up by GM and there are a lot of those cars on the road.

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I think there's reason for concern for Apple without Steve Jobs. Maybe not right away, but will they be able to keep coming up with products that are blast-it-out-of-the-park successes years before the competition? Google has a good position in cloud services and suddenly they have hardware, what if they come up the next really cool thing instead?

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Too bad Gadaffi became a brutal dictator, he really missed his vocation as batshit crazy celebrity.

Rice/Gadaffi - man, only in Ple's warped dreams.

I know how car problems can toss your world into a total tail-spin of fuckery.

Ditto, for Team Zmayhem, and I keep the card that came with our Buffista car help money pinned up next to my computer so I'm looking at your names all day. And thinking grateful thoughts.

dittoing what everyone else said Allyson. It IS a big deal to be facing thousands of dollars of expense unexpectedly and for what seem to be a minor thing.

Yeah, Allyson, don't feel bad about being freaked out; this ain't nothing. You need your car.

I think I am freaked out because I have never worked for someone I just didn't mesh with, but who was still a nice person. I have worked for 3 people who need incredible amounts of attention and were also malicious, and everyone else who has been super laid back.

Allyson, you have every right to be freaked out AND outraged. I've never owned a car, but I can remember when there was a transit strike, and it's horrible to be stranded. GM could at least pretend to care.

Fruit Audit: Who's had a serving of fruit today?

::eating a banana::

I had two strawberry halves, a slice of pineapple, and...no, wait, that's it. I don't think that's a serving.

I had a banana for breakfast. I will not, however, get in the recommended 4 servings today.

I think it's just about time I go down ten flights of stairs and get myself a strawberry smoothie.

I'm also tempted by the cafe's fruit salads, since they don't seem to be 75% melon.