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I hate losing things. Recently I lost my pocket knife. Now this upsets me because I lost the knife that I liked, and my dad gave it to me, but on top of that I have to “lose” money to get another one. Today I was looking around and realized that they might not even make that knife anymore. Now the jury was still out on the little LED light in the thing, quite frankly a pair of tweezers would have been more useful, but a couple of times while using the pen I needed the light to see what I was writing. But, the things it must have are a pen, a knife blade, a pair of scissors, a nail file with a flat screwdriver tip on the end, and a bottle opener with a phillips-head screwdriver on the tip. I use all of those things, so losing one might piss me off. The problem is that I can only find them without the bottle-opener / phillips head, and that annoys me. I use the screwdriver and the bottle opener a lot.



Oh well…besides that I’m annoyed at losing my 4 year streak of not being pulled over. Just like the last time they pulled me over for doing 42 in a 30, exactly what my last and only ticket was for. I’ve decided that 30mph zones are the bane of my existance….they will forever haunt me on 3 to 4 year intervals. At least this guy was nice enough to notice I have a completely spotless driving record for the last 4 years and let me off w/ a fix-it ticket for my muffler…but that is to the tune of $120 !!!!!

Why in the hell should a fix-it ticket be $120? And it isn’t like the muffler is cheap to fix on this car. This is an upper exhuast problem and it is going to cost an ass-ton if I have to replace any of this stuff.

A guy at work said I should just have someone weld a piece of pipe in there, where the hole is. I have to actually find where the hole is, which means draggin my ramps downstairs and climbing under the car and looking at it. Well, at least I’ll have a chance to figure out where it is leaking oil, or where that burning oil smell is comming from. MAN, I don’t even have the tools to start working on my car…this sux…I need a garage and a really expensive tool-set, that would make this better.

You know what the kicker is? That half the guys who work here have those Rice-burner mufflers and they are way louder than mine. Hell, this car sounds tons better than when the muffler fell off. That sucked a lot. I don’t know why my car’s noise would bother anyone…I just need to get a new car, that would be good. But first I have to pay off the saturn, which was giving Lauren a hell of a time with starting this morning….God bless extended warranties.

Other than that…small group tonight. That should be cool, usually a good time. Lauren says I should lead discussion, but that would require effort right now, and I haven’t been much motivated to do that…plus I keep forgetting to read the devotionals Jeff made for advent which is what we are covering, so as long as I’m not motivated I probably won’t want to do that. Plus I’ve been re-reading stuff lately in acts, cuz I haven’t read acts in a while, and finding encouragement out of that, but it isn’t pushing me in a way that I think would be conducive to share in a group…but maybe….I’ll have to think about that.

Thats all folks…enough complaining for me today.

EDIT: I’m up to episode 109 in naruto after skipping (or skimming as Jeff does with books) the running part which I hear sucks. I’m stoaked to see what is coming up in this show.

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General Posts

Annoying

I hate loosing things. Recently I lost my pocket knife. Now this upsets me because I lost the knife that I liked, and my dad gave it to me, but on top of that I have to “loose” money to get another one. Today I was looking around and realized that they might not even make that knife anymore. Now the jury was still out on the little LED light in the thing, quite frankly a pair of tweezers would have been more useful, but a couple of times while using the pen I needed the light to see what I was writing. But, the things it must have are a pen, a knife blade, a pair of scissors, a nail file with a flat screwdriver tip on the end, and a bottle opener with a phillips-head screwdriver on the tip. I use all of those things, so loosing one might piss me off. The problem is that I can only find them without the bottle-opener / phillips head, and that annoys me. I use the screwdriver and the bottle opener a lot.

Oh well…besides that I’m annoyed at loosing my 4 year streak of not being pulled over. Just like the last time they pulled me over for doing 42 in a 30, exactly what my last and only ticket was for. I’ve decided that 30mph zones are the bane of my existance….they will forever haunt me on 3 to 4 year intervals. At least this guy was nice enough to notice I have a completely spotless driving record for the last 4 years and let me off w/ a fix-it ticket for my muffler…but that is to the tune of $120 !!!!!

Why in the hell should a fix-it ticket be $120? And it isn’t like the muffler is cheap to fix on this car. This is an upper exhuast problem and it is going to cost an ass-ton if I have to replace any of this stuff.

A guy at work said I should just have someone weld a piece of pipe in there, where the hole is. I have to actually find where the hole is, which means draggin my ramps downstairs and climbing under the car and looking at it. Well, at least I’ll have a chance to figure out where it is leaking oil, or where that burning oil smell is comming from. MAN, I don’t even have the tools to start working on my car…this sux…I need a garage and a really expensive tool-set, that would make this better.

You know what the kicker is? That half the guys who work here have those Rice-burner mufflers and they are way louder than mine. Hell, this car sounds tons better than when the muffler fell off. That sucked a lot. I don’t know why my car’s noise would bother anyone…I just need to get a new car, that would be good. But first I have to pay off the saturn, which was giving Lauren a hell of a time with starting this morning….God bless extended warranties.

Other than that…small group tonight. That should be cool, usually a good time. Lauren says I should lead discussion, but that would require effort right now, and I haven’t been much motivated to do that…plus I keep forgetting to read the devotionals Jeff made for advent which is what we are covering, so as long as I’m not motivated I probably won’t want to do that. Plus I’ve been re-reading stuff lately in acts, cuz I haven’t read acts in a while, and finding encouragement out of that, but it isn’t pushing me in a way that I think would be conducive to share in a group…but maybe….I’ll have to think about that.

Thats all folks…enough complaining for me today.

EDIT: I’m up to episode 109 in naruto after skipping (or skimming as Jeff does with books) the running part which I hear sucks. I’m stoaked to see what is coming up in this show.

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