Look, I remembered I have a blog! :D
I’ve been quiet lately. Stuff’s happened. Let me tell you them.
Bullet point the first:
We acquired a car, a lurvely 14-year-old station wagon, and for the past month it has been my extreme pleasure to drive hubby to work at 5am. Truly. It means he gets to sleep in an extra half hour and that we get some huggy time before his shift starts. There have been epic grocery trips, and a trip up to the Seattle area for my grandmother’s funeral and a small reunion with hubby’s sister, and his father, and boy howdy was that a good trip aside from the unhappy occasion that brought us up there.
A few days after we got back, the car went boom. I’m just thankful it waited until after the interstate trip to do that. We’re waiting to afford a mechanic to figure out how bad the damage is. We will NOT be employing a former friend who stole our first car and got it irrevocably towed, harrumph. So until it’s fixed, it’s parked. I made hubby get a bus pass for the month of November, because I’d rather we spend the money on that and not use it, than to pay full price sans employee discount for individual transit tickets. We’re due for another epic grocery trip, and it’s annoying trying to find someone to drive us. Yeah, we can use the bus like before, but damn it, we have a car and I want to use that. Ah well, enough griping about that.
Bullet point number B:
World of Warcrack (free private server) owns my soul again. I’ve been playing off and on (mostly off) for five years. Recently, due to car boomage and general lack of things to do because of said car fail, I installed Cataclysm to see what all the hubbub was about. They’ve changed some stuff, nuked a few cities, put a new lava pit in the newbie area, and tweaked the classes a little. I logged in to find all maxed professions intact but all recipes missing. I had four level 80s I’d spent the better part of a year getting to that point, which is annoying but ah well. I mention it in case anyone wants to join me there, I’m perpetually bored. Kick Ash server, PVE, Cataclysm. Install the trial client for Mac or Windows, tweak a couple files as directed, and you’re in.
Bullet point letter 3:
Apparently my brain thinks I can write five novels (totaling 250,000 words) during November, a series of related books borne of boredom and brainfarts. I have five complete and very long outlines and character sheets with some rather in-depth forays into conflict and other fluff. I don’t know if I’ll do all five, but it’s really nice to be able to choose the one that holds my attention the most. Or perhaps I’ll flit from one to the next as my ADD-addled brain demands.
Yeah, I need more to do. Amusingly, having the car made me very much not a slacker, with a full day’s worth of activities between schlepping two people to work and back, and the inevitable chores. I feel incredibly lazy now. Mostly because relying on a bus that takes 40 minutes to travel 4 miles is highly annoying for chores (bank, mail, groceries, errands) that require multiple stops.
The car should be easy to fix, but my extent of carspeak is, “It won’t go,” so I’m really pushing for a mechanic to at least look at the poor thing, to estimate what can be done for as little money as possible and still feel like it’s a better deal than not having one. I’m thinking it’s one specific issue and would be highly curious as to a mechanic’s opinion. At minimum it would require a new plastic reservoir and a couple of hoses. At maximum it would mean a new motor or something else horrible and undoable. Won’t know until it gets a professional assessment.
I’m going to step up my online workstuffs to see if I can pull up some serious moolah to either fix this car, or acquire a new one. Rawr!