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had some trouble getting up this morning. finally. i guess that sleeping four hours thing has caught up with me (even though i'm sleeping more than four now...)

so i got ready for work, and grabbed a couple of cds for the road... but it turns out that, since the siding guys didn't show yesterday (it rained... duh...), dad's staying home today to meet them. which means... more jetta for merc! i was somewhat disappointed that i wouldn't get to listen to noir on the way in to work (which is what i was planning on...), but... not disappointed enough to keep me from skipping out to the car ;p

did i mention the guy i met at the gas station yesterday? when he pulled up behind me, i was checking out his beamer, but he thought i was afraid he'd hit me... we got to talking a bit ("what? don't like your jetta?" "i wish it were my jetta..."), and he said he was looking into buying a used jetta for his kid (hs-aged). hmm... german car connection.

i also forgot to mention the "accident" that happened in front of me yesterday. the car in front of me stopped short, and i was thinking "way to brake," but, as it turns out, he hit the car in front of him. which hit the car in front of her. all i saw was doors opening on the two closest to me, drivers getting out, and both pointing to the median, where the front car had already moved to... as i drove by, though, there didn't seem to be any damage to the cars. we were going pretty slow, so i guess it was just tapping on both counts.

which reminds me... the same abandoned vehicles are always on the side of the parkway. the bronco's gone, but... well, i guess they rotate. after a while, they gotta go, right?

at least it seems that people have stopped hitting deer. last couple of weeks, it seemed like there was a dead deer on the side of the road every day. and in different places, so, unless someone was playing "move the deer carcass," it was a different deer every day. i think the most morbidly amusing one was the one that had managed to walk over to the walkway (which is a windy thing maybe 20 feet from the parkway) and die there, looking as if it had been hit by a bicyclist or a pedestrian.

hmm... and on that lovely note, i'm going to... um... not work? sure...