By Booker B on 2/21/2008 8:32 PM

My rear end is nice and straight now, with no more crooked bumper smile. Makes a large difference! Although now the stupid computer is detecting some unknown problem with the lights. The shop didn't get the high brake light hooked up correctly, I suspect. I suppose I'll have to go back to them for the adjustment.

By Booker B on 2/14/2008 8:31 PM

Dear Other Driver,

You know that thing you do, where we're both merging onto a new road and you're behind me on the ramp and the instant you get clear, you suddenly swerve around from behind and swoop up to block me from merging onto the same road because you're so absolutely desperate to go 5 mph faster than I'm currently going? Well, when you do that you demonstrate arrogance and self-absorption so complete that they effectively negate your privilege even to continue breathing, in my humble opinion, let alone to drive on the same roads as sensible people. You know, my 13 year old car is carrying 180,000 miles, and it's pretty solid so I'd do pretty well in any collision, plus I'm well-insured. You might want to think about those facts as you're deciding whether to behave like the complete asshole you so clearly are. Go back home and kick your dog instead. The worst you'll get from that is a nasty bite to the ankle -- which, by the way, you will richly deserve.
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By Booker B on 2/6/2008 8:27 PM

Wanna see?

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By Booker B on 1/23/2008 11:16 AM

Jesus, I do not fucking believe these people. Do they not have eyes? Have they ever seen a goddamn web page before??? Read More »

By Booker B on 1/20/2008 8:14 PM

So last evening, mixed in with the Mexican food and fine funk, I get this smack from the cluebat, courtesy of my pal from work, Melissa. She tells me that someone -- she refuses to say who -- came to her asking whether I'm gay, since I wear that pink scarf. Um. what? Read More »

By Booker B on 1/19/2008 8:12 PM

Snow does wonderful things to lights. Even stupid lights like the 'go around' lights on a cop car of the warning lights on a railroad crossing barrier. It filters and envelopes the light, diffuses it and softens it. It gives every mundane electircal bulb its own little white halo and makes it all angelic and stuff.

It plays merry hell with the roadways, but the lights certainly benefit.

By Booker B on 1/14/2008 8:11 PM

Turns out that the little turd who rear-ended me did NOT have a valid insurance policy at the time of the accident, contrary to his representations to me and to the officer. Whee. Off to alert the Denver Police of that fact, so maybe his ticket can get a little heavier. Read More »

By Booker B on 1/10/2008 8:06 PM

I have to resolve all kinds of travel dilemmas. I'm scheduled for San Francisco in March for the PCA thing, then LA in May for Ivy's graduation celebration. I want to do the PCA show, as worried as I am about falling short in yet another academic environment, and I can't really miss the graduation. I got her into this, after all. And I'm interested in the SLA show in Seattle in June . . . Read More »

By Booker B on 12/17/2007 8:19 PM

Dopey-ass kid done bent up my bumper and put a dent in my back hatch. Tore **UP** the front of his little '91Toyota pickup, though, including busted radiator peeing everyfrigginwhere.

And I wasn't even slowing that hard when he hit me. Just pulling up to the light behind someone else all normal-like and BANG! People who stopped to give their phone numbers said he'd been weaving in & out beforehand & driving like a dickhead. Was evidently in a hurry. Then he got to wait for the cop, during which time he was speculating whether they'd know about the speeding ticket from Grand Junction that he'd never paid. Yahoos 1 & 3 were along for the ride and hopefully learned something about behaving like a dummy.

I've been that dummy before, though,at least as regards rear-ending somebody, so I couldn't be mean about it. And he had insurance, somewhat surprisingly from the look of the car & the kid.

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