I'm addicted.....

I admit that I have an addicting personality....


I also claim to be able to control most of my addictions....


For example, I love to smoke...


Once I started I was finding quite a few excuses to smoke....


To be doing something with my hands....


To stay awake while driving home at night...


To get an extra 15-minute break at work....


But smoking is an expensive habit....


So I have curbed it....


Now I have committed myself to only smoke when I am drinking with smoker friends who are providing the smokes....


That is working out pretty well so far....


Tho it seems some of my smoker friends are trying the same tactic....


No  one seems to have cigs on them anymore....


Then there's my sex and street drug addictions....


I think I have those under control, too...


It is hard to tell at times....


But I digress...


In February, a friend asked me to go visit a nearby casino with her...


I took just a few bucks that I could afford to lose....


In case I found that I liked to gamble uncontrollably....


Which I do....


Well, did....


Now I have it under control....


Really.....


Have you heard about the new cyber cafes?


They offer a great cup of coffee...


And provide an outlet for my newest addiction....


Which I have under control...


Really...


I'll explain how....


A lil later...


Right now, I am headed out to find a good cup of coffee.

Bad Car Week

Having recently invested over $1400 in car maintenance, I was not happy to see my Check Engine light light....

I was even less happy that the POS was idling rough and stalling once it was warmed up....

Yeah....

I have seen these problems before....

Usually the CO light goes off by itself after a few tanks of gas....

Not this time...

And once the weather outside settles down, idling smooths....

Usually...

Not so this time...

What the weather outside has to do with the smoothness of the idling process is beyond me...

But then, I am no mechanic....

Not by a long shot....

I was planning on waiting a week or so to get all of this stuff fixed or at least looked at...

Because by then G-Man will have moved home from college for the summer....

And I would be able to share his car while mine was being diagnosed/fixed....

Well, best laid plans...

I got a call from G-Man that his car was causing problems when he was trying to shift into/out of gear....

He had been using the parking brake to keep it in Park...

But now he could not get it into any gear....

And yes, he did check to make sure there was transmission fluid in the reservoir...

So he had it towed...

And apparently it is not worth fixing...

But he can make $250 if he scraps it...

Cool....

We can use that money to get my POS fixed....

So we can share my POS...

Until it needs scrapping...