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I am not surprise that with the Altima reaching 300K miles that many parts are starting to fail, it is just annoying that they are failing now. I been having a problem with engine stalling at low speed for the past few months. I went to Auto Zone and got the check engine error codes read for free. The code point to problems to Mass Flow Sensor and the anti knock sensor. I was planning to fix those this week, but I do not have the car at home.( Car Woes )

October 11

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I've posted on this before, and I did say I'd post on it again. This morning, huskiebear is doing the Step Out Walk To Fight Diabetes at The Detroit Zoo. If you can pledge anything, please go here, and for more of her perspective on it, please go here. Many thanks.

Too many Strongbows + too much blathering at Randy = Sarah forgetting about the other THREE tubs she carried in here & now has to go through before open.

Oops.

Guess I can't sleep late tomorrow. At least I'm used to getting up early.

Think me sleepy thoughts, please. Nite nite.

For those of you keeping count that's 6 Strongbows. But, hey! Randy rather likes filk & thinks Tom, Luke & Frank are funny.

I love it when my worlds collide. :)

And, Tom, at least I am sober enough that I played your music instead of calling you. :)

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Now if I can just find her.

He's not here yet & his freakin' phone is off so I can't find out where he is. Grrrr... If he's not here soon I'm going to bed & waking him up when I get up so I can get the stock before we open.

October 10

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Rather than typing my astrology homework I'm going to type at you... because you'll forgive me more if I start blathering from all the Strongbow. :)

I'm in Ohio. I finally talked to Cat, she caught a cold from going back to Indiana (told her she should have stayed at my house) so she's not coming up. Ok, she did say she'd be here tomorrow if she felt better but I told her to just stay home because I have someone who can work and do it well. I've already got messages out to Sky that I think I could use her to work tomorrow, hopefully she'll get them and come check in with me tomorrow morning.

Right now I'm trying to stay awake until Randy gets her with my new stock. I have to merge what Cat's sent from Michigan to me into the shop and make room for it all. Personally, I love having this problem but it's going to take time and if I wasn't waiting for Randy I'd be in bed already.

We've hit another episode of the chemical years; I'm on Strongbow #4 right now and I have to tell you it's only making the bed look more comfy... no matter how much I know it's going to annoy my lower back.

I swear, as soon as Randy gets here I'm bringing in the cases he's bringing me, giving him the ones I emptied in prep for what he's got and then going to bed to worry about it all tomorrow morning. Because I'll wakeup early enough to get done what I need to do. :)

Oh, and while we don't have the tickets yet.... I get to go see Zappa!!! :)

"Zappa plays Zappa" is coming to Ann Arbor the Monday after Ohio closes and I'm going to get to go!!! :) I'd (coincidentally) already taken that Tuesday off so I won't even have to get up early the next morning. Bonus!! :) The one thing I can see myself lacking that week is a companion for Oasis on Tuesday during the day when they're cheap... I'll work on that.

And speaking of "companions"... I know where Mr. Cute and Disposable is, he's not that far from my work, but still I'm not calling him or actively looking for him... evidently I'm not that concerned about it right now... and part of me wonders why.

On yet another tangent.... in Bristol I loathed mosquitos, it was (after all) built at least partly on a swamp like Michigan is, but here in Ohio I loathe ants. I don't have a single bit of food on the counter, let alone the kind of food they'd be after, and they're on it every time I look. Anyone feel up to helping me open my laptop once this show is over and cleaning the fried ants out of it?? Hopefully there aren't any but part of me is worried.

Ok, battery getting low. Time to get off the net and put the laptop back on the part of the counter where it can be plugged into the power. Hopefully I won't be up for too much longer.

Feh.... need to put a note in here. The song currently coming out of my iTunes... Scott Hendricks is more commonly known as Axel the Sot, I haven't seen him in several years and I am quite sad about this. If I have anything to say about it I will get to faire where he's performing and get to see him again. Otherwise I'm going to have to find out if the phone number I still have for him works or not. Please feel free to remind me of this next March because I suck at contacting people like that right now. :(

I just called a man about buying a car. Whee!

I am now at 75 pieces.  But more importantly, I have now posted *all* of the drawings I did for Capricon, including a boatload of Capricious drawings.  Well, technically, all of the drawings that made it onto my computer. There's a huge stack of Capricious doodles that were never scanned in and never used for anything.  Maybe someday I'll scan them, but I doubt it.   Next up, Flamingoes!

On The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson last night.

Betty White is a goddamn national treasure.

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I went out to see my dad's high school's production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest last night. It was a really weird thing to watch a play that I've been in; I'd never actually done that before, except when watching a recording of myself. It was really good, and I was surprised at how expressive all the actors were. Others apparently felt the same way; it was sold out, and even with my dad moving a few extra chairs in, he had to turn away fifteen people at the door. My brother, akreaveter also was there and we sat together as we watched.

During intermission, I talked about my memory of doing the show and the things that I wished I'd done differently. I talked too about how seeing Cuckoo's Nest makes me want to be in a play again. I'd think about trying out with Lakeside Players, the local community theatre again, but even apart from strange politics, they don't do a lot that is really interesting to me. Comedies are ok, but don't really grab me. And the other stuff they do is mostly drama revolving around deep personal issues and relationships between characters. To be honest, I don't think I understand people well enough to be really interested in being in a play like that. I'd love to be in something like Cuckoo's Nest again. I love Cuckoo's Nest because of what it says about broken people not always being as broken as the 'normal' people, and what it says about the nature of society and of the pressure to conform. Playing Chief Bromden wasn't that big a stretch for me; I just pretended I was in high school...

I want to be in something unusual, bizarre, or absurdist. Something that digs deeply into obscure realms of philosophy like Waiting for Godot or No Exit. Plays that involve broken ideas or broken people with divergent neurology, like Fuddy Meers. People whose brains are broken in some way that's similar enough to me for me to readily relate to. Does that make any sense? I guess that's why I liked Elizabeth Moon's The Speed of Dark. Maybe I should write a play about someone with prosopagnosia...

So the play was really good and made me think about a number of things. I'm glad I made it. Plus, one of my dad's students gave me this kind of chocolate bar I'd never had before that has a bunch of bubbles in it and is labelled in French. It was pretty good.

====And now for something completely different.====

I'm worried about my dog this morning. Andrea woke me up at three o' clock or so to tell me that he'd vomited a clear foamy liquid several times, pooped upstairs (something he does not do as a rule), and was having trouble getting downstairs. I found him lying down on the landing, panting and salivating a bit. We tried a few times to get him to come down the stairs, but he wouldn't move. When he did stand up, he sat down again with what looked to be great effort or soreness.

I was mulling over possibilities like taking him to an emergency vet or waiting until the local clinic opened at 8 and taking him there as I sat with him and petted him and tried to get a sense of how he felt. After a while, he did seem to be getting a bit better, and eventually he got up and came downstairs when I called him down for a walk. In fact, by the time five o' clock came around he seemed to be halfway recovered, and didn't have a problem getting upstairs to lie down in his crate as I got dressed (he knows that's the signal that I'm leaving and he should go in his crate).

I'd decided that I'd go over to my parents house and ask akreaveter to stay at the house and take care of him while I'm gone. That way if something happens, he can let me know and I can get up there. It did not occur to me until I was on the way to work that my house has no phone. So Akreaveter, if you read this, please email me and let me know you can get in touch with me if you need to. If you need me email address, please post here and I'll screen your comment and email you back.

I made an appointment to see the vet with him at quarter to nine tomorrow morning. I'm hoping that he's just not dealing well with the new food we're giving him, but this is the second day he's been eating it and we've changed foods before without too much of a problem. Admittedly, this is a food he's never had before, so maybe that's all it is. But I'm worried about my pup. I'm really glad I didn't have to leave him alone today, but I still feel bad about not being there.