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[pmcd9]

Must be nice to be a cop in a place where there is so little crime that you can take the time to notice the dates on people's tags.

Fuck crime, there's a budget shortfall.

[jay-ell]

He was behind me at a red light. They always run the tags on the car in front of them.

I've been nailed this way before, at the exact same intersection -- if you recall, I had a little issue with my "check engine" light last year that delayed my getting an inspection for several months. That dude let me off with a warning, though, because I had documentation that I'd taken the car in for inspection on time but had failed.

I was hoping I'd get a warning today, but no dice.

[theinevitable]

make sure you take care of it fast. My dad/brother got tickets for this two days in a row.

the second cop was a jackass who cussed my brother out and told him to shut up when he tried to explain that they had just gotten a ticket for this the day before (the first officer told my dad to keep the ticket in the glove-box in case they got pulled over again in the next few days).

on the other hand: my friend drove around STL for over a year with expired tags, and no one noticed. Including him.

[wombat]

...find that clearing the layer of ice encasing my car is a good anger management strategy.

[side_show]

Yesterday, I got home from work, and due to the staggering cold, the locks on our house, both front and back had seized up completly.  They were so iced over the key couldn't even go in the lock.  So there I was, after a long day, standing out in the -30 C cold with a hair dryer on an extension cord, unthawing my lock for half an hour. 

After a comfy night's sleeping under our wonderful electric blanket, we awoke to realize, once the blanket no longer covered us, that our furnance had died during the night.  It was -34 C this morning, not counting the windchill.  14 C inside the house and dropping.  $400 later the furnace is fixed. 

I called my sister this morning, and she told me her partner lost his job on Monday and she had an anxiety attack today. 

I left for work, and discovered the locks were seized up again.  Thankfully my husband had taken the day off for the furnace repair situation, so he's now at home waiting on a locksmith.

[Choop]

or idk move south

[Choop]

ohhh shiiiiit

[JorgeFabregas]

He assumes he was held in place by the same mysterious forces that keep so many Winnipeggers from leaving: Maybe it's even had something to do with the first-nations legend referred to in the film, about magnetic underground rivers that meet below the Red and the Assiniboine - the forks beneath the forks. "I'd like to think it's some kind of parapsychically powerful location," he says. "Since Winnipeg has the harshest climate of any city over 100,000, and nobody's leaving, there must be a pretty powerful attraction keeping us here." Or, he offers, maybe it's just laziness and a lack of imagination.

[pmcd9]

He assumes he was held in place by the same mysterious forces that keep so many Winnipeggers from leaving: Maybe it's even had something to do with the first-nations legend referred to in the film, about magnetic underground rivers that meet below the Red and the Assiniboine - the forks beneath the forks. "I'd like to think it's some kind of parapsychically powerful location," he says. "Since Winnipeg has the harshest climate of any city over 100,000, and nobody's leaving, there must be a pretty powerful attraction keeping us here." Or, he offers, maybe it's just laziness and a lack of imagination.

It's the Slurpees.

[Nabubrush]

Hosted the carpet guy yesterday to get a bid for re-installing the carpet that the chuckleheads put in before they fixed the water issue.

Today: shower door guy for the custom shower that we got two years ago, that the door doesn't work anymore.

Tomorrow: back to work! Hoorah!

[side_show]

JorgeFabregas,

My ancestors lived at the Forks going back to the early 1600's, so that's pretty accurate. 

I probably am a force of nature.  Ash is probably right about that.

[Lister]

...come down with a cold that'll probably keep me out of our team celebration party Friday, too.

In the "people with bigger problems than me" vein, though, anyone have advice for a friend who's recovering from a pretty severely broken/dislocated shoulder?  He had a full dislocation and four fractures.  The best I know of is alternating heat and cold to help the tissue damage and swelling.

[wombat]

I probably am a force of nature.  Ash is probably right about that.

Yes, this totally explains a lot.

[greenkoolayd]

... learn that South Carolina and Queensland are sister-states.

[lprkn]

Both states limit beer to 3.2% ABV. Coincidence?