November 14, 2008

There were 3 posts published on November 14, 2008 (this is page 1 of 1).

Attitude

Its been fun answering honestly whenever someone asks me “how are you?” I stopped by Garner’s world-famous Agri-Supply to get parts for the damaged trailer and that question was inevitably asked.

“Look at him,” one good ol’ boy shop worker called to the other. “The kind of week he’s had and he’s still smiling.”

After his buddy picked his jaw up off the floor, the first turned to me again.

“I can tell you gonna be okay,” he said. “If that don’t faze you, nothin’ will!”

True enough. Its been a wonderfully fun day. I spent the evening wrestling two gleeful, giggling kids.

The van? Its just a thing. The job? I’ll find another. The love of my family and friends? That’s what its all about.

Silver lining

It hasn’t been all bad news this week. We got word from our insurance provider that we’ll be getting a hefty check for our totaled van: one pretty close to Blue Book value! The folks at Farm Bureau were easy to deal with and seemed to get things done quickly.

The other nice thing is that we don’t need to replace the van right away. I obviously have no job to drive to (and didn’t drive to my last one) and since car dealers are losing their shirts right now we can bide our time to the end of the quarter or later if we choose. The money may come in handy for more immediate needs (like, uh, the mortgage) in the meantime.

Or I may get that scooter I’ve been meaning to get and become one of the cool kids.

Trifecta complete

As Chris so helpfully pointed out (or was he cursing me?), trouble comes in threes. If so, I can now breathe easier because this afternoon as I prepared to resume job hunting I discovered my laptop will no longer power up its hard drive. Its not that the hard drive is broken – its just that my Thinkpad isn’t powering the drive at all.

I think its an internal power supply problem rather than the drive itself, which is good news and bad news. The good news is that I don’t have to fear losing any of my data. The bad news is that there wasn’t valuable data on it anyway and I can change a hard drive in my sleep, its so easy. Vague power supply problems, not so much.

I am so buying a lottery ticket tomorrow.