Watch the police and the tax man miss me, I'm Mobile!

That's so sweet of you.

Of course not!

Maybe just a little.

 

When you say you work at home, is that just with the band or do you have another job?

 

Sounds cool. Must be nice, having no commute to work.

Hopefully, I'll be able to get together with a friend and get a ride to where my car is. Time to give that thing a good home. I'm also considering giving it a new name, although my sister's name for it (it was actually her car)-- the Shaggin' Wagon-- has possibilities as well.

 

Well, due to faulty planning, I still don't have my car at the moment. I was going to get it tomorrow before or after my fiancee and best friend were going to get some dinner, but we waited too long and I wanted to get back in time to watch that idiotic TV show "Alias" with my woman, so I'm gonna get the car today or so help me, I'll kill someone just to watch him die!

And I know that you people care. I just know it!!

 

Thanks, Jonty.

I suppose it will be much easier to get around and collect job applications now. I was hoping to get a summer internship with the Washington D.C. police department, but that probably won't happen, so I'll have to get a sumer job that I hate. Again. At least I won't have to take several buses to do it this time.

 

I doubt I'll actually go the distance and become a cop, but I'm interested in the field of law enforcement and an internship like that would be not only a good learning experience but might look good on a resume.

 

Thanks, man. I do too. It'll save me from having to get an actual job for the time being.
No, but seriously, my girlfriend's cousin did that internship and had a great time. He even met and talked with the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI about profiling. I've read several books by the guy that created that program and made psychological profiling a tool that's now commonly used in law enforcement and I find it a fascinating subject, so that would be really cool. That may not even happen, and all the field trips and really awesome stuff my girlfriend's cousin did are just extra stuff, but either way, it would be a great opportunity for me.

 

Well, I've got my car at my building now. My driving mentor drove ahead of me to make sure I didn't get lost while bringing the car from my parents' house to my apartment building, since whomever designed the highway transportation system decided it would be funny if they not only gave one highway/road several different names along the course of its length, but they thought it would be extra funny to make the various named sections disjointed and non-linear so that easily confused drivers wolverine) could easily stray off their intended route. Along the way, several a$$hole drivers cut in front of me between my own car and my friend directly ahead. Had I not been so focused on keeping on the correct route, I'd have been cursing loud enough to drown out my George Thorogood CD and resolving to follow these bastards until they stopped. During my rookie driver's training, I tended to say "Ooh, that bastard... I think we should follow him to wherever he feels safe" quite a lot.

Yeah, that's right... The streets ain't safe no more! Now I begin my quest to become a competent driver on my own and learn my way around. This ain't gonna be easy, and there may be some casualties, but in the end, it just might be worth it.

 

Last night I went on my first solo driving mission that wasn't just circling my parents' block a few times. It was less than a mile from my apartment, but it was still extremely nerve-wracking, as this entire new chapter in my life has promised to be. I made it to the gas station, drove back home and stopped at a 7-11 on the way home. Mission successful, fatalities zero!

Today I'm driving myself to my brain-fixin' doctor's house, which will take me back along that God damn, stupid, multi-named highway that's just waiting to throw me off onto some other long-ass, heavy-traffic avenue that would take me God-knows-where if I'm not careful. After that, I'm faced with the option of going to meet my girlfriend at her parents' house (in Washington, DC, which I hear tell is a nasty place to drive, in general) and going to dinner with her and a couple of her relatives, or keeping it somewhat possibly simpler and going back home where I can spend some quality time with my PlayStation2 watching some episodes of "Batman: the Animated Series" and playing "Dead to Rights II." Or even worse-- spending some more quality time with you guys! I know how you people are... goin' out and engaging with real, live people on Friday nights, like the fair-weather posters you are...

 

The problem is, I don't live close to a subway station. I'd have to take a bus to get there, and walk to the bus stop to do that. No more! No more will I suffer the indignity of walking and taking the bus like a peasant unless it's truly necessary (like if I was tring to get into downtown DC), especially with the weather getting warmer and eventually hot again. I've let my anxiety take precedence over my laziness for far too long!

 

You know, I think I've only seen one of his movies-- "The Great Escape." But Steve was pretty badass in that movie. Not only did he jump those barb-wire fences with a motorcycle on a diagonal angle, but he could bouce a ball against a wall like nobody's business. I remember laughing at that film almost all the way through, what with he Nazis giving the POWs gardening tools and otherwise running the prison like it were a summer camp.

 

You can't do no shaggin' in the driver's seat. And I've got no real indication that she ever really used the car to... to...

For God's sake, as kids we used to drive to the beach for family vacations in that thing! Lizzy, how could you?!

 

Thanks, Gimpy.

No points? But I thought it was 5 for an adult, 7 for an adult with a dog, 10 for a child and 15 for an elderly person.