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[noahgibbs]

Yesterday, by rights, should have been really bad.

My motorcycle battery died, so I was in a massive rush to get home and scramble to Berkeley by 6:30.

Work still sucks. And I was late coming in.

On the way home, my car's "check engine" light came on, and I don't know what I'm going to do about repairing it while trying to get my bike dealt with.

But y'know, I just don't feel very attached to most of my day-to-day activities. It was about time to get the car serviced, I've just been lazy. The bike thing may keep my off my bike for a couple of days but that's about the worst of it. And work -- it sucks, sure, but then I care less.

I feel like sort of a weenie -- things haven't been really, really good for me for quite awhile, and things are never all that bad. I guess I'm just wishy-washy rather than melodramatic and angst-ridden. If they ever make a movie of my life, I'm seeing Kevin Spacey ala "American Beauty" as me. Or at least, as the current me. I don't know who would have played me-in-college. A young Christopher Walken, perhaps.

Eh, whatever. Back to work.

Comments

[lusty.livejournal.com]

And here's where you say "But it wasn't really bad, because of all these good things . . ." >;->

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

You bet'cha. The Neil Gaiman thing wasn't the end-all and be-all of my adult life, but the book was quite good. I've satisfied myself that hearing him speak doesn't show me a wealth of new and hidden meaning in what he writes :-)

He reads well, though.

And, as you point out, much slower than I do.

[lusty.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. I didn't realize that your life really does suck horribly. At least it must, if that's all you can come up with from yesterday that was good.

[bk2w.livejournal.com]

Ick. Check engine lights are annoying to deal with. It'd be far nicer for the tech-savy if the car simply told us what the problem was, instead of just giving a "ack! somethings wrong!" signal.

If you'd like help diagnosing or attempting repairs, I'm quite happy to lend tools and time.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

I'm a wuss, I'm just gonna take it down to the dealership for the scheduled maintenance I most recently missed :-)

Won't be so bad once I've got my bike happy again.

[ironangel]

this happened with my truck - ford explorer. apparently, it's a sensor for emissions foo. the car won't blow up, you can drive it as normal. they probably have to check the intake stuff.

there, technical enough for ya? ;)

[stephtoth.livejournal.com]

when the check engine light came on in my dodge shadow it was for some sensor in my gas tank that checked to make sure the levels of oxegen in there were correct. Isn't that weird? The things your car does that you don't even know about...but you still have to pay 150 bucks to fix.

[sheenaqotj.livejournal.com]

It would be easy to get frustrated with that, but I'm glad you can shrug off less than perfect days.

I have had days like that and even whined melodramatically (especially in my journal), and then realized that life is still good.

Just a pat on the back...

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Thanks!