April 12, 2004 - 9:50 p.m.
Uh oh. This is bad.
My new housemate David has set up a "server" that all of our "computers" are "hookinated up to." He's sharing 12 gigs of MP3s.
I only have 8 gigs of free hard drive space.
So the big, wonderful news around my parts... wait, that sounds bad. See, I meant to write "these parts," but that implies an area possibly as large as the state of California. And I doubt that all of California cares about Laurie's car. So let me try that again.
The big, wonderful news is that Laurie's car cannibalized another car and rose from the dead!
Wait, that sounds awful. Laurie's car is cute and resembles a panda more than a zombie.
Oh, hell, this writing thing just isn't working out. I'm sorry. It was a long day at work today.
OKAY: Laurie's car, as you may or may not remember, recently electrocuted itself, damaging many major components and totalling itself. Laurie's mother told the mechanic to go ahead and repair it, not expecting the repair bill to have four digits.
So the amazing thing is, somebody ELSE took THEIR 1986 Honda CRX to the same mechanic. Their engine, it was discovered, had exploded from a lack of proper maintenance. So the owner of the exploded CRX decided to buy another car, and, on a whim, the mechanic asked if he could have the car, since trying to salvage any worth out of it would probably be more trouble than it was... uh... worth. So the guy magically donated his CRX to the garage.
With me so far? I know I'm writing incoherently, it's hard to make this story seem as miraculous as it is.
But get this: the mechanic jacks up the exploded CRX, tears it apart, and shoves the important bits into Laurie's car. Laurie's car runs fine now. So Laurie doesn't have to pay for parts, only labor. So it's completely affordable, and she has a running car again! And not just A running car, but HER running car! Corgi, a.k.a. The Panda Express!
Think about it, what are the odds that somebody with the exact make and model of car would donate all the necessary parts? Pardon my French and outdated yet somehow ironically hip slang, but, how fucking rad is that?!
Okay, it is definitely time for me to stop trying to write. Yeesh.
