that darn car
oh, the civic. about a week and a half ago, the front left tire started leaking air at a prodigious and unfortunate rate, and the muffler decided it didn’t like itself, and enacted a bit of self change. so, for a week and a half, i’ve been driving around in a noisy, slightly lopsided car.
given the option of replacing the tire or fixing it, i chose to replace it. i spent the time my tires were being changed out wandering around circuit city (i purchased a $2 copy of abe’s oddysee), and enjoying the fine cuisine of happy wok. a bit later, after the car had been fetched and a bit more of supper consumed, i drove over to the barnes and noble. they didn’t have exactly what i was looking for, but i found a $3 copy of a book i wanted to read. i was going to sit down and enjoy my book with a nice cup of coffee (er, decaf? or maybe tea, given the hour), but they were piping this awful christmas music through the air, and it drove me straight out of the store.
and home again i rest. as an update, the new computer is very nice, thank you very much, but the re-reading of ender’s game has put me on to a bit of a reading kick, i think.