Out of Gas

I ran out of gas the other day while taking Silvia to work, luckily we were only 3 blocks away. Never done that before. It actually did happen one time, but I was trying to start my car from a parked position. This time it was trying to get going again from a signal stop. No good. I saw it was low and pushed it too far. Like life - sometimes you push it too far and you just run out of gas.Waiting for Barta to come rescue me with the oil can.

Close Call

I was home this past weekend for my nieces first birthday and I haven't been home for so long that I forgot how dysfunctional my family was. I was reminded first thing in the morning as my mom was yelling at my dad for buying more stocks had probably lose lots of money on again. Anyhow I could go on and on about all the ways my family dysfunctions and just be patient because I will, you just wait but for now I just wanted to tell of why it's a miracle that I'm still here today.

So after a few days of dysfunction I was about ready to haul ass out of there and back to the peace and serenity of Oakland. But I decided to stay another night, baby sitting my niece really helped there. So the next morning at 6 I take off. I have the day off and I really wanted to enjoy the drive and take the time to process through the things I've dealt with the past 3 days. So I decide to take the 1 all the way back, a much longer but so much more scenic and enjoyable as it goes right along the beautiful Pac coast. This is where it gets crazy.

I'm just past Salinas and I hear the loudest sound of impact against my windshield I've ever heard. I look up to see if I could identify the source to no avail. The assassin could not be located. There a was a small bullet like crack in my windshield. It was aimed so perfectly that if it had fully penetrated the glass it would have hit me directly in the heart..instanteous death. Thank you Nissan glass division. It could've easily been a pebble launched out from truck tires but I'm convinced that I was the target of an assassination attempt. Why? I don't know. I have few enemies out there. Maybe some one is jealous of my beard. I've encountered life threatening situations in the past but this was definitely the narrowest escape, the closest call.

After getting over the initial shock of it all. I closely examined the tiny crater and decided I could live with it. Then I looked down just for a moment to change out the CD only to look up and find that a 4 inch crack had magically appeared. I knew it was over at that point. Every day since then the crack slowly grows about an inch a day. I could only watch helplessly as this invader creeps slowly across to the right on my windshield. Damn it!

Mysterious Car

So we're walking down geary st in sf and we see this car parked along the curb. we first notice that the entire front of the car is caked in mud but think nothing really of it. then we get to past it and see that the back window is completely shattered out. So we were going to call the cops but then we look closer and both license plates are missing and we find that right front wheel is completely shoved in, meaning the car was dropped off there and wasnt driven there. inside you could see that the car seats were completely soaked, plus there was definitely moisture all over the entire ground underneath and flowing from the car. its still a mystery but we basically surmised that the car was partially or completely submerged at some point and possibly the back window was bashed in to pull out the occupants during some rescue attempt and then for some reason it was towed and dropped off here. could it have something to do with the mob? we opened the door and popped the trunk just in case there was a body back there, we found nothing but shampoo.

Point One Percent

I didn't have to smell it to know. I approached the car prepared with my weapon of choice. This morning I had to drench my passenger seat with Febreze (reference post below). Febreze-kills 99.9% of odor causing bacteria. I went back at lunch.. smells fine, fragrant even but that o.1% is not nothing-bothers me-I mean bacteria multiples exponentially. I'll give it another soaking later when the initial one dries and then one more for good measure. 99.9% of o.1% equals I'm not sure but something minuscule and then another 99.9% of that should do the trick. I can't think too much about it-if you dwell on bacteria and viruses it becomes virtually impossible to do anything, touch anything-so we just live with it. Ignorance in this case really is bliss.