The Mystery Spot

It was great to have a guest last weekend. We hung out, ate, drank, caught up. My guest had never seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail, so t...

The number of books that I read to my son has now increased to a rotation of four. He lines them up on the floor, and when he decides to put...

I'd be a lot more enthusiastic about things if I had not sank a lot of money into the car a couple of days ago. I knew the rotors were p...

We were headed to a clambake yesterday afternoon. What we thought would be a casual day in a backyard. I brought a bottle of Vihno Verde, so...

With the central air in the house shot, has been for years, we've been making do in the heat with an air conditioner in the bedroom and ...

It took all day but this phase of the car repair is completed. I take it to a place that tells you everything wrong with the car, and it is ...

85 degrees on Thursday, barely hitting 50 today. Going to be a chilly walk back from the car repair shop after I drop it off, but I need the...

It would not surprise me if I were to go to the ER before the 27th and beg to have this thing removed from my eye. Going on an eye and a hal...

Woke up at an unearthly hour to have my exhaust system looked at. It's been making some odd noises. At first they were skeptical, but th...

The latest car ordeal has ended. The bearing has been replaced. The car started right up in single degree temperatures this morning. Let’s k...

Yesterday I waited all day for a part to be fixed in my car. After paying for the repair I got in the car and noticed shortly thereafter tha...

Spent a fair amount of time and money in three repair shops on Thursday and Today. When you buy a used car, cheap, it's going to be far ...

I am now an owner of a 1993 Subaru Legacy Station Wagon. It looks like this, but a bit dingier. It has low mileage, 133K. For a 17 year old ...

Such a fantastic notion has been formed in our culture; one that has been manipulated to believe that the rich are poor and need more and th...

Getting gifts for my autistic son is a challenge. Thought I was clever last year by getting him a tent/tunnel. He rarely used it, then trash...

Some mofo cut me off on I-70 as I was going onto to 315 this morning. I had to stop short to avoid hitting the idiot and I got rear ended. M...

Had to take my car to the shop this morning, which caused me to miss my son's swimming. Luckily his Mother agreed to take him, can't...

Oh that Writers' Block, bringing out the ignorant in everyone. I can't sit next to Vernell for awhile - the things that were said, I...

After many months of noise and one failed attempt at repair, the noise that my car's exhaust was making has finally been fixed. This sum...