It’s been a bad week for cars in the Ferndizzy…
Last week Christa spent several hundred dollars to have the dealership tell her she has a transmission problem, and it’ll be $3400 to replace. Then she went for a 2nd opinion and a specialty transmission shop where it stayed for the better part of 4 days [...]

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I could have taken the easy way out on my porch project, but I didn’t. I could have put ugly green Astroturf to hide the crumbling steps, jammed a bunch of concrete into the part on the side crumbling and painted it, or just fucking stuck a huge flower pot in front of it to [...]

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As a kid, I loved watching the old Transformers cartoon, I had Transformers toys, and thought Transformers were better than GI Joe (blasphemy, I know).
I got C an up-converting DVD player for Christmas, and we thought what better movie to test out 1080i on our TV than with the Michael Bay directed 2007 live action/CG [...]

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Hi. We own our home. We’ve lived here 2 1/2 years, and love it, SO STOP SENDING YOUR CHRISTMAS CARDS TO MR & MRS BRADLEY.
I’m sure they were nice people and all, but they haven’t lived here for several years, and you obviously aren’t close enough with them to have gotten their new address.

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If I had a camera phone, I would have definitive photographic proof for the internets of a dude driving an SUV around metro-Detroit with an almost-life-sized MANGER SCENE strapped to the roof rack. As I drove by with my mouth open, silently mouthing a giant WHATTHEFUCK, my only question was not WHY? but CAN HE [...]

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If you’re like me, you’re never going to deploy Windows CRAP Extreme Edition (Vista) on anything, ever. I tried to blog about having to deploy Vista to a user here on a new notebook but couldn’t (I have received complaints that when I swear on the blog it blocks some people out from viewing the [...]

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Will the people that think inflatable lawn ornaments are not tacky please move to the front of the bus? You’re getting off at the next stop - someplace other than a city near me.
I’m going to have to start carrying my pocket knife around.
PROBLEM. SOLVED.

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Get over yourself.
Seriously.
Just because my silly FREE PHONE from T-mobile rings while you are watching a movie on your iPhone does not give you the right to turn around and give me the BET-YOUR-PHONE-CAN’T-DO-THIS dirty look.
F off.

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Once again I find myself spending money on my car (2nd time in less than a month for those of you keeping score at home) because something broke, so this is seriously getting old already.
While it’s not to the tune of a 1-with-three-zeros repair bill, having to spend another $50 on something as stupid [...]

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Everyone knows the old saying here in Michigan, wait a day and the weather will change.
Sunday night:

Today:

It’s snowing today. Not quite sticking like the photo, BUT DAMMIT ITS STILL SNOWING!
WTF happened to fall?

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