View From the Bushes

This hasn't been my week. I detailed the whole annoying OfficeMax thing and then there was the $850 I got hit with in car repairs, but then, just when I thought the worst might have passed, my wife calls me this morning and tells me that both of the boys are sick and throwing up and that all the stuff (toilet, sink, shower) in the upstairs bathroom is draining slowly. For those paying attention, this is basically the same problem I spent $700 on back at the beginning of October. Oh? "Well then it must be under warranty," you say? 90 day warranty... Today is day 93...

But perhaps the most annoying thing of all happened last night. When I bought my Nissan Sentra about a year ago it had around 90,000 miles on it. Since that time, I have been the driver probably 99.5% of the time. Well, the car has been approaching 100,000 for quite a while now and I confess I was a little excited to watch it turn over, but because the other car is in the shop, I ended up having to trade cars with the in-laws and in the time they had it, the odometer rolled over. That 0.5% of the time I wasn't driving it turns out to be the very time I wanted to be driving it.

Okay, not seeing the car's odometer turn over is not that big of a deal, but I can't help but feel a slight sense of loss nonetheless. Moving on... I realize the links have been sparse the last few days, and that's not likely to change, but I thought I would post a link to yesterday's Order of the Stick. Normally I wouldn't bother posting a link to a D&D themed webcomic, but since this one was a take-off on a well known Monty Python sketch (with a nice twist at the end), I thought I would link to it.

Illegitimi Non Carborundum
Ross