Friday, August 19, 2016

won't crank

My starter's gone bad. That's not a metaphor, I really mean it - the starter on my car has gone bad. That means it mostly works, except when it doesn't, and when it doesn't I might be able to get it to work again by banging on it with a piece of rebar.

So I have a car, maybe? And now there's this constant question of whether it's worth trying to go do stuff. I may get my errands run and come home without incident. Or I may wind up sitting in hellish heat in a parking lot, waiting for a friend to come by and scoop me up.

I'll have the money for a new one soon enough, but until then I'm trying to be philosophical and see the whole thing as an exercise in handling uncertainty. Plus, I don't work today, so I guess I could just get really high and clean my house.

I've had worse ideas.

10 comments:

  1. A bad spot on the starter motor. Darn things.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Yep, exactly. This is not my first piece of rebar.

      Delete
  2. Two recommended activities. I just hope either way you go, you have a fan.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I've helped choose pictures for a nudie calendar I make every year, I've cleaned a little, and I've done that other thing and so all is quite pleasant here. I also arranged rides to work for the next few days, so no worries at all.

      Delete
    2. hahahah! Can we see the calendar?

      Delete
    3. Sure! But not until it goes on sale November 12th.

      Delete
  3. Don't clean. Watch Netflix. Wentworth is good.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I cleaned a little, but not much. I'm rewatching the last season of Archer and took a break for this week's Steven Universe ep.

      Delete