When I went out to leave for work this morning, the Jeep wouldn’t start.
I had to walk up and down the hill between the house and the barn several times. First to find the charger. (In the barn. Not in the garage or honey house.) Then I had to find an extension cord. (Not in the garage, house, barn, or honey house. In the yard, in a pile.) Then I hooked it all together and plugged the Jeep in, and went inside and watched half of some morning show about well-balanced, clear-skinned virgins with good morals.
The boy, a virgin, asked his friend, a virgin, to double-date with him and the cute new girl, also a virgin. The friend, I believe, was in love with the boy and was pissed at being an extra on a dumb double with some other guy who had no lines. They all looked like they were 25, yet they were playing highschoolers. Dawson’s Creek, I think it was, or some shit.
Anyway. Then I went out and started the Jeep up and drove to work. Got here a freakin’ hour late, damn it.
The reason the battery dies is that I sit in it with the door open a lot, since I’m often too lazy to go find a lawn chair. The dome light kills the battery quite rapidly. I need a new battery, but am and will be too broke to buy one for another month or so.
(After that length of time, my DH assures me, he’ll be working a nicely-paying job and has plans to BUY. A. MOTORCYCLE. He never, ever, EVER stops buying stuff. I am so serious. I’ll be struggling to get my never-to-be-sufficiently-damned credit cards back under control and he’ll be shopping for ANOTHER. FREAKING. BIKE.)
Have I mentioned I want a Mac? (A Mini. And a powerbook. Yum.) Yes, I officially hate Windows now. The opsys I use is five years old, I hate XP too much to use it, and I’m certain the next Windows entry to the opsys world will be another bloatware behemoth. (I’ll keep at least one Windows box to run all my warez on, natch.) OSX, here I come!
Er, here I will come, if my husband ever stops shopping long enough for me to buy new geek equipment!
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Why on earth do you sit in your jeep with the door open? I bet you have a fridge on your front porch and a washing machine in your yard that doesn’t work. (snort!) One must send one piccies!
I sit in the Jeep to smoke, because we’re quasi-civilized and we don’t smoke in the house.
I have a dryer and a deep freeze in my yard, and they BOTH work, thank you very much. But no appliances on the porch – the porch is very much under construction and hasn’t existed long enough to collect such accoutrements!
When it’s hot in Iowa if you sit in a car without the door open for very long your brain will melt! On the other hand, if it’s winter….then you’re going to freeze to death in your car. You just can’t win!