Life 6-29-9

Cripes!
You only realize how taxing an 8-to-5 job is when you start one after an 8 month break. It's now been 2 weeks and I still haven't gotten used to waking up at 6am- especially when I had been going to bed at 3-4am!
I like the job- if only for the nearly complete lack of stress. I do my job and that's it. The work is very dull and repetitious and there's an assload of it. So far, I've never had to twiddle my thumbs and search for something to do. The people are OK- not fun like from ZippyMail (and a few certain others from other jobs) but they don't tend to annoy me too much- which I like. And I do love OT you get paid for! Being on salary sucks when I worked 12-hour days.
Fred's been acting up the last few days because I've been gone so much. She feels neglected and I feel like a bad parent or something.

My computer got virused BAD right after I got back from L.A.. I mean- like that within hours "right after". A worm got in and started eating the linkage to any program that might be able to stop it. I finally got it quarantined ONLY by cutting off my access to my CheckDisk and Defrag programs. Feh! Luckily, I found better ones online- faster and with more options. Still sucks monkey though....

For a bit now, my car has had a gasoline smell when it first started up. I had attributed it to the new radiator and later, spilling some gas from the emergency tank in the trunk. But last week the smell was overpowering. I took it in Sunday and all it was was a loose clamp on the fuel line. HOWEVER (or should I say- naturally) the mechanics found about $1400 worth of further problems- like needing new rear wheel bearings, rear differential, rear brakes, & front half shafts. I laughed when I got the list- partly as I don't have $1400 to spend on the car, partly because the Blue Book on it isn't much more than $1400, and partly because this type of occurrence is so "me".
I have to get the repairs done piecemeal. I'm going to buy the parts myself and save about $250 then shop around for the best labor costs.
Because this will be sucking up all my extra cash (and I was already penny-pinching for my trip in September), I can't make it to the San Diego ComicCon this year. And I could have gotten in free, thanks to my sis. CURSES- foiled again! Maybe next year....

Apart from this The Drama, not really much is going on. Just trying to get back in the "gotta get up and drive to work" groove.

Well, if I don't hear from ya- have a good 4th!
Be like Michael Bay 'n blow some shit up- just don't be like him and spend $100 million doing it....