It happens like clockwork. I am almost physically freaked out because it's happened, yet again. Gather round children and listen to my story. It goes like this.

 

Business is normal.

Business goes down.

Robert gets nervous.

Business suddenly shoots through the roof.

Robert has huge repair bill of one kind or another.

 

See, my brakes, as you know, were grinding. Taking my mother's advice to not wait twenty more days until my appointment, I called them. Oh, bring it in, we'll try to have it done by tomorrow, and we can do that recall thing at the same time probably. Oh, and your belts are cracked. And there's a leak someplace. The warranty usually covers that kind of thing, but because of the placement, they need to have someone inspect it, but we can't get them down here on such short notice, so we'll just let that go for now until your inspection. 

 

Brakes: $350+

Belts: $90

New Key: $15

 

So, my car has been in for repair, and three different things have gone wrong. (I forget what the other thing was, something about the "fuel system" right? I'll have to read my own blog to jog my memory)

 

Why did I pay an extra $1000 for a warranty that covers… nothing? For kicks, I guess? 

 

Anyway, this keeps happening. Right when I need money desperately, I get it. But rather then allowing me to keep it, something breaks and I'm right back where I started. Once I could see. Twice is pushing it. In the last ten years it's happened too many times to be coincidence, and that's just weird.

 

Don't get me wrong, I would rather not skip the "through the roof" part of the cycle, but come on!

 

So today I scraped my way to the shopping, as normal. Went out for a cleanup, and to drop off the laptop. Called the car place, bring it in, okay, let me call my 9:30 for tomorrow, oh, her problem is not articulated well so I waste time doing what I should have and been done in ten seconds, I drop car off.

 

So tomorrow I have one person coming here at 9:30, then if I get my car back before 3:30, another person who wants to scan something and attach it to an email. Thrilling.

 

Weekend was fine. Friday night, no game, watched Blake's 7 with Sean/Mizzy. Ate pizza. 

 

Wrote a whole bunch on Saturday. Watched a bunch of season 1 of House, loaned by Sean, on Sunday. It's an okay show, it's just the same episode over and over. Patient comes in, we have no clue, we think it's a bunch of things in succession, we throw stuff at it until something works, oh that was it.

 

There, you don't have to watch the show.

 

24,092 words, or maybe 30% finished? I'm a little stuck, Sean introduced a new power type I think is dangerous, so I immediately worked it into the story and sent him off for training in those skills. But it happens for him instead of a field trip, and I wasn't going to write the field trip, but then decided yeah, maybe I would write the field trip. Because I'm out of ideas to fill in until I get to the main plot of the book, as I don't know how long that will take to resolve so I wanted to leave maybe the latter half of the book for just that. 30% != 50%. So I just picked "Africa" out of nowhere, but that leaves me stuck, I don't think I know much about Africa! So I have to do some research, see what sort of paranormal things happen there, and where they can go to experience them. Because a book about a bunch of teenagers that go to school directly over a gateway to Hell and all have powers to combat the demon menace on earth that will one day pour out of it; is all about realism. And don't you forget it. I looked up Japanese temples and everything, you could go to that temple I named and you would see exactly what I wrote in book 1, so there. Not the demon gate part. At least I hope not.

 

So that can happen tomorrow probably, depending on car and things.

 

Saw the tiniest dog today, my cat could have eaten him for a snack.