Showing posts with label truck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label truck. Show all posts

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Family Tales


I totally enjoyed International Talk Like A Pirate Day yesterday even though I was all alone. It's always a good day to be a pirate.
Today we have errands to run, grocery shopping and all. My bf wants to go to four different grocery stores. I'm more of a 'one stop shopping' person. I get tired being dragged around from place to place. So much for the stereotype that women like to shop more than men.
I still haven't gotten up to Central CA to see my first grandchild. I'm trying to save the money for the trip, so of course I just got my business license bill for another $100. Ugh. I'm going up there anyway for a gig on Oct. 25, but it's hard to wait. I feel like everyone is seeing my grandson before I get too. I had planned to just catch the very next train up there, but then my bf and I had a fight about it and it sucked all my enthusiasm right out of me. He doesn't have children so he doesn't see what the big hubbub is all about.
Then a few days after I would have gone was that big train head-on collision in Chatsworth, so that made me feel a little funny about riding on the train. I guess the whole situation with my truck not being safe for long trips and family stuff and money stuff all just wears me out so I stick my head in the sand.
Speaking of which my truck was vandalized again. I got in it to drive to KFC last night and someone had written 'fukyou' on the driver's mirror. I think the poor spelling bothered me more than the act itself. Luckily it wasn't permanent marker like I thought. It rubbed off with a wet paper towel. But still. This neighborhood sucks.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Carjacker

Someone tried to steal my truck last week and boogered up the ignition. So today we got the part in and tried to fix it. I couldn't figure out why there was a piece of metal blocking the key slot. So I pulled the screw driver out of the glove compartment that I found on the seat the day it happened, and sure enough the tip was broken off of the screwdriver and lodged into the key slot. We couldn't get the assembly apart, but we found a way to at least start it long enough so I can get it off the street for the street sweeper tomorrow. Then we can take our time figuring out how to fix it right.