The National Kidney Foundation came to my house and towed away my car yesterday. It’s a donation, theoretically, though that implies I have passed on to them a thing of value. My car is old enough that I had to pay them $30 to take it. A fair deal to someone who doesn’t want to deal with junkyards. I suppose if they scrap it, it’s valuable. I scrambled but could not find my camera in time to snap a photo.
I felt more sad that I expected to see the car towed off. AND I think it was resisting being taken. It allowed its alternator to break, meaning it couldn’t be driven. It got buried under 2 feet of snow. It [...]
- I started the new day job last week. It’s also fun, as far as these types of things (jobs) go. I’ve been catching up on the web development world, reading about Ruby on Rails, Ajax and any number of other acronyms that have blossomed since I last paid close, close attention.
- Got to participate in an Improv Everywhere mission this past Saturday. Great fun. I will describe it after the mission is made public on its site.
- There wasn’t much parking in Manhattan on Saturday. The city of New York was gracious enough to remind me of that by towing my car. I was parked illegally just off of 8th Avenue (I didn’t know it was an illegal [...]
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No Bones by Dinosaur Jr. from "Bug"
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