Monday, January 24, 2005
Today was not a normal day. It's only halfway through and already it has the feel to it of "one of those days". Often, days like this are talked about years from now, but this one - well, maybe months, at least.
Doomsayers are calling this "The worst day of the year", which would be a start, because the car didn't. Had it towed to the dealership and I got to the office less than two hours late (which wasn't as bad as it could have been). At 3pm I got a call saying the problem had been fixed. Seems the brake pedal sensor was faulty, so that the car did not know when the brake pedal was pressed. Not good for taking the car out of PARK, but even worse doing 100 and wanting to slow down in a hurry. Anyway, just off to collect the darn thing ...
We'd also planned on having a nosey round Best Buy this evening, to look at a big TV. With a view to purchasing, you idiot - not just to LOOK at a big TV. Tsk. Maybe that's still on the cards. Let you know ...
I had a spare minute to answer a few questions at http://politicalcompass.org and it told me that my political position was somewhere between Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. I can live with that. More Liberal than most, more Anarchic than most. Yup. Seems to fit. I'll dig out the link to the belief-o-matic if I find it. That told me that I'm a Secular Humanist when it comes to belief/religion. Again, seems to fit.
Carryball is having it's "Superbowl" in a couple of weeks. Count me as someone who'll be washing their hair when it's on. [Ooh, must get it cut sometime soon]. We were in a bar yesterday, and the choice on the TVs was either a really foggy golf game, or some too-soft-to-be-rugby-players standing around watching a clock tick down to zero. We went with neither and talked to each other. Much better :-)
As for what else is on TV, I try to make an effort to watch The Amazing Race, Corner Gas and Lost. If you don't have Lost on TV where you are, keep an eye out for it. It's great. Very character led storylines, and more often than not finishes each week on a cliff-hanger or jaw-dropping revelation. Ask your local provider when it's on.
Gotta go - have a date with a car dealer. Yuk.
Doomsayers are calling this "The worst day of the year", which would be a start, because the car didn't. Had it towed to the dealership and I got to the office less than two hours late (which wasn't as bad as it could have been). At 3pm I got a call saying the problem had been fixed. Seems the brake pedal sensor was faulty, so that the car did not know when the brake pedal was pressed. Not good for taking the car out of PARK, but even worse doing 100 and wanting to slow down in a hurry. Anyway, just off to collect the darn thing ...
We'd also planned on having a nosey round Best Buy this evening, to look at a big TV. With a view to purchasing, you idiot - not just to LOOK at a big TV. Tsk. Maybe that's still on the cards. Let you know ...
I had a spare minute to answer a few questions at http://politicalcompass.org and it told me that my political position was somewhere between Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. I can live with that. More Liberal than most, more Anarchic than most. Yup. Seems to fit. I'll dig out the link to the belief-o-matic if I find it. That told me that I'm a Secular Humanist when it comes to belief/religion. Again, seems to fit.
Carryball is having it's "Superbowl" in a couple of weeks. Count me as someone who'll be washing their hair when it's on. [Ooh, must get it cut sometime soon]. We were in a bar yesterday, and the choice on the TVs was either a really foggy golf game, or some too-soft-to-be-rugby-players standing around watching a clock tick down to zero. We went with neither and talked to each other. Much better :-)
As for what else is on TV, I try to make an effort to watch The Amazing Race, Corner Gas and Lost. If you don't have Lost on TV where you are, keep an eye out for it. It's great. Very character led storylines, and more often than not finishes each week on a cliff-hanger or jaw-dropping revelation. Ask your local provider when it's on.
Gotta go - have a date with a car dealer. Yuk.
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