so , reading arron's backlog of blog entries has made me feel guilty, so here's one for me today. (not that anythign interesting happened...)

i woke up feeling better this morning. i've been mildly sick the last couple days, though i say mildly in comparison with everyone else i see who is sick, as they're totally miserable & missing work, whereas i'm mostly just uncomfortable. the lungs are plegmy, but i'm on my way out of it now, so it's ok.

i took a shower and then went outside to deal with the flat tire. on friday, i had gotten in my car to leave work, and drove maybe 50 yards before figuring oput that the weirdness was a flat tire. i was still in the work parking lot, so i pulled into a spot and went to work changing the tire. in the end, it took me about 45 minutes, because the jack was being weird at one point and not raising up all the way. it turned out that there was some glass shards stuck in the grooves. weird.

so anyway, that was friday evening; yeasterday evening i had gone out to the car to discover that the spare had gone flat. sweet. i didnt bother with it yesterday, but today i had to. i hesitate to use fix-a-flat, but it seemed my only solution. it raised the tire pressure enough so i wouldnt be driving on the rim, which enabled me to drive to the gas station to fill the tire the rest of the way.

i pulled into the lot to discover some jackass in a pickup truck using the air hose. i call him a jackass not because he's using the air (which was inconvenient) but because he was parked at an odd angle that took up two spots and required me to park three spots from the hose. that in turn meant moving once he was finished, and more driving on the flat tire. grr.

after a minute of waiting, i saw he was pulling away. before i could put the car in gear, though, i also noticed that some chick had pulled in next to him at the same stupid angle he'd been parked at. jay-zus. she airs up her front-passenger tire, gets in her car, and pulls forward. i back up, so that she can pull though, and she stops her car. that's right, ladies and gentlemen: she is now parked parallel to the curb, blocking all four spots and leaving me without even a place to pull back in. genius.

eventually, she finishes, and i air up my tire. i drove it around a bit so that the sealant could do its job.

after that minor debacle, i got some coffee at sitwell's, though no espresso because they were ONCE AGAIN repairing the machine. suck. shake it was next, where i picked up Clerks X and Dogville. A couple records, too, but nothing of note.

Back here, then, to watch the longer, original version of Clerks and chat woth the Toast in China. We're very excited to unleash Montana & McDeviltoast on the public. Good times.