So, after the whole spare tire thing yesterday, I had hoped to be able to wait a couple days before heading to Michel Tires Plus (where I have all of my car work done) to get a new one.

Nope.

On my way to work, when I hit about 50 mph, the car began to vibrate like crazy. I stayed at around that speed all the way to Michel Tires and dropped it off. Usually they have someone available to give me a ride to work, which is a couple more miles up the road, but not this morning. I ended up calling our consultant Amy for the ride, as I knew she would be able to spare the time and wouldn't mind.

I pretty much knew the answer before they even called me back: the spare (which, of course, I'd never before had call to use) was shot. The result: two new tires for the rear of the hearse, with the good rear tire now becoming a spare. Total: $123 or so. Ugh. So much for not spending any more money on the goddam thing.

After I got home from work I watched the copy of Dogville I'd picked up the day before. I'd seen the first half with Laura a couple months earlier, but on that occasion I'd had to leave to play the Walker Project cd release show. So, I started where I left off, where, as Laura had related later, "everything went crazy". My opinion: Dogville is incredible, and definitely one of the best of 2004. I found out later that Ebert disagreed, but that's ok. I'll forgive him. ;)

After that, an uneventful (and somewhat boring) trip to the Lions, then back home to bed.