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January 8th, 2003

cjsmith: (b&w fancy rob)
Wednesday, January 8th, 2003 09:28 am
The repair bill was large, but I have to give the shop credit where credit is due: unlike the place I've been taking this car for the last ten years, THESE folks LISTENED when I said it was doing something weird. The owner test-drove it and got on the phone to me, confirming just what things he should be seeing. He drove it enough to make sure he saw both of the behaviors I had described. What's more, he FIXED them.

I'll keep y'all posted on whether they stay fixed. "California's Best", on Evelyn by Mary in Sunnyvale. I may be a new convert.
cjsmith: (cjlo joe1)
Wednesday, January 8th, 2003 12:15 pm
Just before [livejournal.com profile] joedecker came over yesterday I spent perhaps five minutes in Emergency Tidy Up Mode. Ten or fifteen pounds of accumulated mail and other such junk went into a big box promptly shoved out of sight under my desk.

Now it's time to pay the piper. All the mail I received over the three weeks I was gone, PLUS anything that had been sorted and had been sitting on my desk when that pre-holiday storm blew through one window and soaked the whole area, is now in a big tangle in that box.

*sigh*

When will I get over the feeling that if every last piece of my mail is sorted, filed, answered, paid, thrown away, or shredded, as appropriate, then I will be a grown-up?
cjsmith: (cjlo joe1)
Wednesday, January 8th, 2003 04:29 pm
The house next door is being tented for termite fumigation. Perhaps it's time to re-inspect our house.