Banality Blogging: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Just a quick status update.
For those who are understandably disinterested, here is an unrelated image of 4 girls rotating.

The Good:
I have a week off of work, and thanks to "Fall Break" (actually a 4 day weekend), I only have one class this week. I'm doing pretty well in school this semester and despite the usual drama with scheduling and prerequisites, it looks like I'm still on track to graduate early next year. I'm looking at an offer to switch to a 'Bachelor/Masters" program which would give me an MA by Spring 2015. However, I need to look at that very closely since everything ODU does tends to be a cunning trap and in any event I want to stop going to college and start saving money. For now my plans are still graduate with a BA next year.  As for today, I'm doing nothing. I just woke up after sleeping 14 hours. My plans to clean my parents gutters and groom their yard has been derailed by the rain, and 4 inches of standing water. (This should be in the "bad"category, but I am being a slacker today).

The Bad:
The wheel for a 1982 Cressida is a fairly nonstandard type and had so the replacement spare I mentioned earlier had to be to be ordered. It came in Thursday night so I intended to be outside the tire place when they opened Friday.  I got off work early having only worked a half shift, and so it was 05:00 AM when the inevitable blow-out occurred.  I was only about 20 minutes from my parents so I waited until a bit after 06:00 to  call them and ask my dad if he could make a detour,  go by the tire place, pick up the tire and drop it off with me. All the while I fended off the helpful roadside assistance guys who were all too eager to call me a tow truck. As it happened having the spare would have made no difference because the strange flimsy tool that Toyota decided to experiment with in lieu of a lug wrench had bent and corroded beyond its capacity to cope with a tire lug. So I called my Dad and asked him to borrow a lug wrench from the tire place. Anyway, he got there, I changed the tire, went to the tire shop, got a new tire, returned their lug wrench, bought one of my own, paid for the whole mess, went home, showered and went to school. Having replacements for the tire and lug wrench so handy and being able to avoid a towing bill would ordinarily be placed in the "good" category. However as I changed the tire the rain was coming down in sheets with no sign of stopping (it's been raining non-stop for 3 days...we've had over 11 inches as of this morning). Shortly after I finished changing the tire...it stopped raining for about 20 minutes.

The Ugly:
Kenneth is an old English word meaning 'handsome'. After all these years I am still unclear as to whether my parents were being ironic, sarcastic, or simply made an error filling out my birth certificate.

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