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My clutch pedal has VANISHED!
Jul. 24th, 2004 11:24 pmSwitching back and forth between driving manual and auto-tranny cars is sort of like learning to type on a Dvorak-layout keyboard which has been rigged to explode and blow your hands off if you make a typo.
Other interesting things I've discovered lately: capri pants (you know, those calf-length ones) fit me like normal pants. On the one hand, this makes buying pants much easier -- having a rather unusual (to be polite about it) waist-to-inseam ration has always made it hard to find pants that fit me in the waist without being way too long in the leg. On the other hand, it's embarrassing. But as long as capri pants continue to be in style, pants shopping just got a lot less challenging, at least so long as nobody notices the little telltale slits at the sides of the legs that mark them as capri pants.
Our house still hasn't burned down, though at times I'm despairing of actually managing to move into it before winter. The fire has now burned nearly 500,000 acres and has its own website located here to keep residents updated. The place the Fire Service maps have labeled as "Fox" (about 12 miles southwest of the fire) is approximately where our house is. (Fox is the name of the town, although it's unincorporated and has no actual legal status; it's part of Fairbanks.)
Other interesting things I've discovered lately: capri pants (you know, those calf-length ones) fit me like normal pants. On the one hand, this makes buying pants much easier -- having a rather unusual (to be polite about it) waist-to-inseam ration has always made it hard to find pants that fit me in the waist without being way too long in the leg. On the other hand, it's embarrassing. But as long as capri pants continue to be in style, pants shopping just got a lot less challenging, at least so long as nobody notices the little telltale slits at the sides of the legs that mark them as capri pants.
Our house still hasn't burned down, though at times I'm despairing of actually managing to move into it before winter. The fire has now burned nearly 500,000 acres and has its own website located here to keep residents updated. The place the Fire Service maps have labeled as "Fox" (about 12 miles southwest of the fire) is approximately where our house is. (Fox is the name of the town, although it's unincorporated and has no actual legal status; it's part of Fairbanks.)