Sunny today and unseasonably warm. I am taking things easy. I am still tired and stiff from yesterday. I had to take the car in for new tires and a replacement for a burned out headlight but, as the saying goes, one damned thing after another kept me waiting there for five hours. And I am not complaining about the service--that was great. The mechanics found that the headlight assembly was shot because the insulation on the wires had disintegrated and the wiring corroded. They had to order the parts which took time. Then they found a similar problem with the wheel assembly and was dangerous enough that it really had to be fixed immediately. More parts had to be ordered and more time. So I wound up spending five hours there because I had no alternate transportation. If we had realized so much had to be done to simply get the original things fixed (new tires and headlights) I might have been able to arrange something so I could leave the car and pick it up next day. I took my NOOK reader with me so I could read a book but sitting there that long left me so stiff that I could hardly write the check. We did spend much more than anticipated but it wasn't anything we couldn't cover and the repairs probably mean the car will last past when neither one of us are driving any longer.
Bill Astore linked to a George Carlin skit from 2005 which is well worth a listen, or read since Astore included a transcription. Sounds an awful lot like what I have been hearing from the coterie around the Once and Future President.
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