My life is a joke sometimes
Jan. 23rd, 2026 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cornerofmadnessIt was a good day. I actually slept 6 straight hours without waking up. People were in lab and engaged. I bounced early and thought well it's still sunny, let me do the laundry today (I do it on the weekend) and then go to Jackson for gas/food things I don't have, don't need, but want.
I have big heavy clothes so I need all three washers including the hated front loader. I plug in my quarters and go to turn it on cool water instead of blazing hot and...someone has broken off the temperature control knob. Well that's fun.
Put quarters in the big heavy sheets one and realize...it says out of order in small letters on the screen. Won't give me back my quarters and I REALLY want the sheets clean if the power goes out this weekend. Now I'm yanking stuff from the middle washer before it gets wet and shove the sheets in.
Go to the car to run to Jackson while this washes. My battery dies. I'm praying it's the battery (AGAIN) and not my alternator. Call AAA. It'll be at least an hour (well at least now I can finish laundry before leaving. Call Dad to wish him a happy birthday and tell him I'm stranded in the RV park's back alley (AGAIN. My battery has died back here before). He arrives an hour later and he has the big wrecker that could haul three cars. I feel bad as he has to back it out.
I race my dead-battery to Auto Zone and the guy looks at me we can't replace them in a honda CR-V. What? You have before. What year is it 2015. Oh, yeah we CAN do that. Over 2018 we can't because if you make one mistake which is too easy to do and the computer dies. I have never heard of this and resolve to ask Dad who obsesses over cars and he has a CR-V too (he had never heard of it and is now on a mission to find out) Frick and Frack might just be incompetent because he couldn't even get the housing off my battery and needs to get his coworker. He manages it. The terminal cover snaps off. he drops the battery in sideways, barely gets it back out. I drive off 230$ poorer just happy they didn't destroy my car (try Advanced Auto next time. Also they couldn't find me in the system. I've been there so many times....)
Kroger's of course is a nightmare. And the assholes in Jackson jumped the gas price over 30 cents since the day before (should have got that at work where they haven't) I get all kinds of things I can eat cold if the power goes out. That'll be tomorrow morning's excitement. I go to the library to get the book that was on hold.
I get home and my computer is off. Did I already once?!? Nothing else is blinking but firefox and edge both say thanks for updating so I think an update was forced.
I bought myself Archway Ginger snaps as a treat. They one of the few processed cookies I actually like. I now have a tons of salami, PB&J, and hard boiled eggs plus apples. I will have food.
Saying a little prayer for everyone's power.
But there was one good thing today beside Dad liking the gift I gave him. It's also my book birthday. Check it o ut!!
here on Amazon Paper back, hard back and ebook
Fannish 50 recs. Plenty of them. You can read if you're snowed in.
A Reason For Living Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem
How to Train Your Alpha Teen Wolf
An Unacceptable Loss Stargate Atlantis
Defining Love Torchwood
Workaholic FAKE
Honoring Satedan CelebrationsStargate Atlantis
Adaptability Torchwood
Not Restful The Fantastic Journey
JACKASS.OCT.11.19XX87_1.TRANSCRIPT The Murderbot Diaries
Adjacent
An Unexpected Discovery Stargate Atlantis
Awkward Conversations Chainsaw Man
listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness Helluva Boss
Alive Again Torchwood
What Cowley Knows. The Professionals
Too Hot for Comfort Stargate Atlantis
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me). The Professionals
Pillow Talk 9-1-1
Reflection At Bedside A Study in Emerald
Winter Wonderland The Sentinel
But What If There Was a Demon vs Dinosaur Cage Match? Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Being Prepared Due South
The Fear of Not Knowing Due South
Premonition Doctor Who
One More Tattoo Teen Wolf
I have big heavy clothes so I need all three washers including the hated front loader. I plug in my quarters and go to turn it on cool water instead of blazing hot and...someone has broken off the temperature control knob. Well that's fun.
Put quarters in the big heavy sheets one and realize...it says out of order in small letters on the screen. Won't give me back my quarters and I REALLY want the sheets clean if the power goes out this weekend. Now I'm yanking stuff from the middle washer before it gets wet and shove the sheets in.
Go to the car to run to Jackson while this washes. My battery dies. I'm praying it's the battery (AGAIN) and not my alternator. Call AAA. It'll be at least an hour (well at least now I can finish laundry before leaving. Call Dad to wish him a happy birthday and tell him I'm stranded in the RV park's back alley (AGAIN. My battery has died back here before). He arrives an hour later and he has the big wrecker that could haul three cars. I feel bad as he has to back it out.
I race my dead-battery to Auto Zone and the guy looks at me we can't replace them in a honda CR-V. What? You have before. What year is it 2015. Oh, yeah we CAN do that. Over 2018 we can't because if you make one mistake which is too easy to do and the computer dies. I have never heard of this and resolve to ask Dad who obsesses over cars and he has a CR-V too (he had never heard of it and is now on a mission to find out) Frick and Frack might just be incompetent because he couldn't even get the housing off my battery and needs to get his coworker. He manages it. The terminal cover snaps off. he drops the battery in sideways, barely gets it back out. I drive off 230$ poorer just happy they didn't destroy my car (try Advanced Auto next time. Also they couldn't find me in the system. I've been there so many times....)
Kroger's of course is a nightmare. And the assholes in Jackson jumped the gas price over 30 cents since the day before (should have got that at work where they haven't) I get all kinds of things I can eat cold if the power goes out. That'll be tomorrow morning's excitement. I go to the library to get the book that was on hold.
I get home and my computer is off. Did I already once?!? Nothing else is blinking but firefox and edge both say thanks for updating so I think an update was forced.
I bought myself Archway Ginger snaps as a treat. They one of the few processed cookies I actually like. I now have a tons of salami, PB&J, and hard boiled eggs plus apples. I will have food.
Saying a little prayer for everyone's power.
But there was one good thing today beside Dad liking the gift I gave him. It's also my book birthday. Check it o ut!!
here on Amazon Paper back, hard back and ebook
Fannish 50 recs. Plenty of them. You can read if you're snowed in.
A Reason For Living Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem
How to Train Your Alpha Teen Wolf
An Unacceptable Loss Stargate Atlantis
Defining Love Torchwood
Workaholic FAKE
Honoring Satedan CelebrationsStargate Atlantis
Adaptability Torchwood
Not Restful The Fantastic Journey
JACKASS.OCT.11.19XX87_1.TRANSCRIPT The Murderbot Diaries
Adjacent
An Unexpected Discovery Stargate Atlantis
Awkward Conversations Chainsaw Man
listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness Helluva Boss
Alive Again Torchwood
What Cowley Knows. The Professionals
Too Hot for Comfort Stargate Atlantis
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me). The Professionals
Pillow Talk 9-1-1
Reflection At Bedside A Study in Emerald
Winter Wonderland The Sentinel
But What If There Was a Demon vs Dinosaur Cage Match? Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Being Prepared Due South
The Fear of Not Knowing Due South
Premonition Doctor Who
One More Tattoo Teen Wolf
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