So I've been without a car for most of this week (well, every day except Monday) because they insisted on taking it to a body shop for some minor scratch it received when my mother was driving it that may or may not have involved a motorcycle sliding into it.

Now, it's finally back, but there's no fucking oil in it because no one's been keeping track of that. There might be some tomorrow (today), but there's no guarantee I'll have access to the thing.

Been wanting to check out the Chinese (Grauman's), but I haven't done that, largely due to laziness and that whole lack of useable car.

Much thanks to those who've lifted me about this week.

Daily, I consider just taking off to walk the Earth, like Cain in Kung Fu...or, as I prefer to call it, The Show That Should Have Starred Bruce Lee Because He Came Up With The Fucking Idea.

So, I'm told I need a network card (which I don't have), a router (which I do), and some amount of technical wizardry to run the DSL line into my bedroom. It's really the first and last parts I have issues with, since I really know jack and shit about computers, despite having owned a few since the late eighties.

(In case it's not clear, this is a plea for help.)