thursday

While driving home from work last night my car started to vibrate, squeak, and decelerate. I managed to drive it all the way home, not that I should have, but I didn't want to sit on the side of the interstate and wait to be robbed or raped.
I took the car to son's work. They thought it was a coil...........until they took it out........said it had burned and that I was lucky the car didn't catch fire. They had my car towed to a Ford dealer, said they think it's an electrical problem.........the only thing I know about cars is they need gas to run, I need to keep the oil changed, air in the tires, and windshield wiper fluid in the little thing that holds the fluid.......and I know it shouldn't smoke out of the tail pipe...........oh, and I know what anti freeze smells like! So when something is wrong with my car I have to trust that I'm not being screwed by the people fixing it...............it bites! I know it's going to cost a fortune. I hate Fords. I wish I hadn't bought one!

I fired Time Warner Cable this morning. The service  has been terrible and the price for their bad product  IMHO kept going up. It felt so good to take all their boxes and crap to them today and to tell them to cancel my account. I switched to Cincinnati Bell. I'll save about 70 bucks a month for the first year..........I'll fire them after the first year if they get too greedy.

What's legally justifiable can also be avoidable some of the time.  I've had many
   patients charge, punch, spit, and threaten me over the past 30 years. Shooting them, or harming them in any way was never an option or even a consideration................................................................so while some cops may have been legally justified in killing some punk ass trouble making thug, I can't help but think they have to get off their power trip and find other ways of dealing with confrontations/threats................especially when it's a teenager they're dealing with.