The Ponderings of a Big Foot Buddha

2003-11-30 - 1:32 p.m.

Couple of slow boring months until ...

Well this fall has been pretty uneventful except for trying to help my wife keep an even keel while she was going through prescription flucuations. That kept my hands full mostly. Thankfully she's through that and is back to her old (new?) self. Whichever it is it's nice not to have her switch from calm to sulking to violent rages to crying to restless to calm (and not always in that order).

Hmm what else?, well our car (the one with no insurance & almost no brakes) finally bit the big one, it graduated to absolutly no brakes one fine day. So after much discussion we decided we were better off with a good running ugly vehicle that was cheaper to fix & easier to do driveway repairs on than my poor little 240sx. So our new (to us at any rate) vehicle is a 1988 Jeep Comanche 2wd, 4 cyl, 5 speed pickup. Lots easier to get to all the part for driveway repairs & with (well back when I could afford it) me being an off road enthusist I know lots of 4x4 jeep parts suppliers and all the 4x4 Cherokee parts from jeep fit our Comanche. It runs great it's just really badly rusted & looks uglier than heck. It has a CD player that is worth better than half what we paid for it, the tires also were Wrangler A/T's good for another couple of years too. So all in all I figured we came out ahead of the deal. Not to shabby for $600 + a bit (Canadian dollars too).

Now the fun stuff :-( a week ago as I was leaving the office just before lunch time there was a young feller wearing a toque, carrying a book bag and wearing baggy pants walking past the line of vehicles where my truck is parked. He asks me for a cigarette, I don't smoke I respond. He asks for some money to buy smokes, I reply I have no cash. He says "Give me a ride to the service station & buy me some smokes with an ATM card", "ahhh I'm not going to support your habit" is my considered response to his idiotic request. I hop in my truck and head off to do errands. At the end of the day I head out of the office a few minutes early to warm up the truck. Guess what I find? Four flat tires all slashed through the sidewalls & unrepairable. So for the price of a pack of cigarettes I find myself with a $166 tow bill & $496 worth of new tires & $50 car rental bill for the weekend. Merry Frekkin' Xmas to you too you little weevil! Sad thing is he looked to be about high school age & very similar looking to any of 500 other high school aged guys in winter clothes (what do they do clone the kids these days?). The police have nothing to go on & can't do a thing and they say it may not have even been him but I was the only one with slashed tires. Plus what the heck was he doing in a closed off dead end parking lot anyhow? Likley looking for unlocked cars maybe?

On the fun side a buddy of mine sent me this link to play an online Vampire game where you get to lurk in dark alleys & suck the blood out of passerbys. Kind of fun for a free online game with other people playing the other vampires you encounter. Give the link below a click & try it out.

So come let me bite your neck ...

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