boo on me. :(

I talked a lot with Mike tonight for the first time in a while. It was good. Also talked with Jeremy, although only for a very short while; it was nice hearing his voice. And then I spent a while catching up with Mary on IM. All in all, it's been a pleasant evening. I'm feeling a bit more grounded now that I've done a bit of reconnecting.

Life is good.

My car has a tic.

Sometimes, for whatever reason, it willl give a swipe with its windshield wipers. Usually just one swipe. Often when I am turning left. For the most part, this is just a cute idiosyncrasy -- I love my car all the more because it is unique in this way.

Recently, however, the car has suffered some damage as a result of this tic. Windshield wipers, when wiping on a dry windshield, fight against much more friction than they do when wiping on a wet windshield. My car wipes indiscriminantly, often when the glass is dry, to the detriment of the passenger side wiper which has begun to fall apart. It has torn the rubber all up, and I'm going to need to replace it soon before it starts wiping metal against glass and does some real damage.

My poor neurotic car -- we're just two peas in a pod.