Okay, this is weird. Initially, it looks really cool, and then you see the price, and it's insane and unreasonable. And then you see the options, and it makes no sense at all.

Seriously.

I should say something to my mother, really -- she knows I'm online all the time, and I'm logged in everywhere on my home computer (and this one, too, but that's neither here nor there), so it would be easy to get on and post, but I don't know if she'd think of it.

I already told a work friend to call the cops if she doesn't see me for a couple of days and I don't respond to her texts, after a local news story about someone being dead in an apartment for days.

:: runs to Premium Cable just in case ::

There's the service that will take care of pets, etc., when people get raptured - think they'd be willing to do something in the event of a natural death of someone unlikely to qualify?

:: runs to Premium Cable just in case ::

I was not posting from beyond the grave just now and punking you all into thinking I am still alive*. AS FAR AS YOU KNOW.

*(Would that be a Reverse Gus?)

I was not posting from beyond the grave just now and punking you all into thinking I am still alive*. AS FAR AS YOU KNOW.

Pffft. I'm totally posting once I'm undead. Ouija boards come with wi-fi these days, right?

Yes, that would be a Reverse Gus, otherwise known as a Sug.

Just got the first estimate. It's the primary oxygen sensor, which is NOT one of the ones under recall, and to fix it will be about $600. ::sigh:: At least I have a job, but I haven't even received my second paycheck. And with the IMA battery likely to go, and the starter being finicky, I think it's time to start looking for a new (to me) car. Probably a small SUV or small pickup with an extended cab.

Bollocks.

It's the primary oxygen sensor, which is NOT one of the ones under recall, and to fix it will be about $600.

I have a hole in my exhaust system (the front pipe, IIRC, and possibly elsewhere). Back in May the dealer told me the whole exhaust system, from tailpipe all the way through the catalytic converter, would have to be replaced, to the tune of $1800-ish.

I have since been advised by car-ish people that the dealer says the whole thing needs replaced because they are not inclined to cut out sections of pipe and weld in new ones, like an exhaust shop will.

So it could be less expensive at an exhaust shop, but I'm still braced for a huge bill. Bah. And I really need to get it in this week.

Cars! What are they good for?

Part of me wants to friend what's-his-face in order that I might make Special Comment face in his general direction(of course, if I had glasses, it would work better.) He can't help being weak and pathetic...in retrospect, I do wish I hadn't wasted so much time believing I was entertaining a man in a sickbed, but actually that was probably the only honest thing he said about himself. A true Special Comment on such a subject might feature a quote from Marshall McCluhan, and Casey Stengel, or somebody, but I'm not feeling very profound right now, so(looking at second camera) Mr. Straley, or, you know, let us be honest, whatever the hell your name really is(maybe Lazarus), your problems were, and remain, deeper than the internet. I have one piece of advice for how you may reclaim the tattered shreds of your identity. Do the world a favor, and disconnect now.