AUTHOR: Scott G DATE: 11:32:00 PM ----- BODY:

Things are looking up..

Besides still driving a banged up car, things are going ok. I've been doing the new position at work for over two weeks and I like it. The car is getting fixed, we know where but not when or what we'll do when the day comes. We don't have a rental car option with our insurance policy (if we did, they'd say it doesn't cover accidents like they said about towing) and at first the dealership promised a loaner to us. The conversation after that went like this "Can your insurance get you a rental? If not we'll get you one. (Says to manager in the background "We won't charge for a loaner, will we?" Manager says something back that I couldn't hear) I then ask if it'll cost me and I get an iffy response "We'll see.. we'll call you." This doesn't seem good. One minute we'll get a loaner free of charge, next minute "we'll see". Before all this she said a loaner wasn't available and she'd call us when one was. We're not willing to walk to and from work at this moment, so we'll wait. One of the following will happen sooner or later: A) We decide we'll walk to work, B) We hate driving the trashed car enough to walk while it gets fixed, or C) We get a call from the dealership saying a loaner car is available. I'm happy "sports-wise" tonight because my Yankees won (yes, they're MY Yankees damn it), the Red Sox lost, and the Mariners lost. Deb is gone out with Christine and one can only think it's going well because they went out after Christine got out at 8 and it's around 11 now. I'm happy that Deb's going out. She really deserves this. I hope things like this happen more often. It can only be good for her. Let's see.. I'm struggling to find a group online. I guess it's like my high school days when I didn't have one then either. I was a loaner who didn't really stand out or get noticed. In my freshman year I tried to fit in and about halfway through I just gave up and the rest of high school was about just getting by. Now I go online and the place I helped get going (Teen Spot) is just about dead. I post a little in a few technical PC forums, but when I join chat it's still the same bunch of elitist folks chatting about things you wouldn't know unless you're a part of the group. Speaking of elitists, I'll never bother trying to find friends over IRC. They don't even recognize you joined the channel or that you're saying something. For all they care, if they don't know you.. you don't exist. Ok, I got sidetracked reading a blog. People from my past have visited my site lately, and thus I visited theirs. My past.. argh.. parts of it anger me, but things have really worked out so it's ok. I'm happy with my life, and I don't think it could've ended up any better.. only worse. I could still be living at home, with my Mom. I could've had to go through all this stuff with my Mom's ex-bf first hand. I don't like to think about what could've happened. I like to think about December of 2000. That's when I met Deb for the first time in person and she didn't think I was revolting. March of 2003 will be the third straight March I've gone to Florida. I've been there 12/2000, 3/2001, 7/2001, and 3/2002. I go from never having been further south than an airport in NJ to going to Florida four times in two years. It's not because I'm rich, believe me. I scratched and saved to manage those trips before Deb came up and after that we drove. I'm not sure exactly how we'll get down there next March. We don't want to put 2,200+ miles on our new car, but we don't have the money to fly there and if we did we'd have no way to get around. Deb just called, she's picking up a few things and coming home. I'll save some words for a later date. Until next time... --------