HAPPY BIRTHDAY rhettfoxcoon AND fenrix!

So, here's the scenario. It's about 6 degrees out...has been all day. I think the high was 8.

Due to an unfortunate accident of timing, my low fuel light went on the moment I started my car to drive to work this morning. It stayed on for 15 miles of bumper-to-bumper (about an hour), sat in the parking lot all day, and then stayed on for another 19 miles, since there are literally no convenient gas stations between Job 1 and Job 2, and I had to get to work.

An hour ago, after unloading a truck, I hop in my car and it starts right up. In having a VERY brief conversation with a coworker in his 60's, I mention that I have to go get to a gas station, because my 'low fuel' light has been on for the last 34 miles, and the theoretical minimum range is 50...so I should probably, like, get on that.

Said coworker is mildly horrified, leading to a side conversation about how far cars have come, in that my $15000/new xB was not only capable of such feats after 60K and no maintenance, but expected to perform them. And he's right - it didn't even occur to me that the car might not start, unless I'd done some tragically bad math. I still don't know why it wouldn't - do fuel lines really freeze just like that? I'm pretty sure an Aveo could have survived the same treatment.

My coworker suggested to me that, were this 1979, no amount of money could purchase a car that would have started up in the dead of night after being subjected to such treatment. Obviously, I have no frame of reference for this statement, as I would not even be born for another 2 years.

So...confirm or deny?

Current Location: the parking lot
Current Mood: cold

I find this bizarre and terribly funny. But sometimes I suspect I'm easily amused.

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I just finished putting up my new tree and it looks rather nice. This is my first Christmas in my new home, and it's going to be nice and cozy with rukario71 visiting for the holidays. :) He arrives on the 23rd, departs on the 4th of Jan and I'm off the whole time. I've already got the turkey, gifts, and artificial wood stove. It's nice being prepared early and that mainly happened because I'm off to Toronto next week for more work stuff.
My ear is about 90% back to normal but it was very... uncomfortable for a couple of days.

I think I had more to say but my mind is drifting, so I'll just post this babble for now. :)

Tags: christmas
Current Mood: indescribable
Current Music: Charlie Brown Christmas music

A female werewolf jumps into the branches of a dead tree, a better vantage point to locate what the crows are warning her of.

Original is watercolor and colored pencil on 11" X 14" Bristol Paper.

Long overdue art trade with Melody Pena ^.^

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On furbid, here!
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Could you say no to that face? Theoretically speaking? :P

Ok, so I JUST saw this on TV and found it on youtube...so it's possible everyone has already seen it. Even still, it had me LOLing.



I love this suit! XD

Current Mood: amused