oh yeah. a numb mouth is better than a pained one. screw you, tooth pain; the power of orajel (apparently walgreens doesn’t stock ambesol) commands you!

so i am once more among the ranks of the tivo-having. i was at target and they had a 40-hour model for $199, with a $100 rebate. so, really, it wasn’t going to get much cheaper than that. and i do miss having tivo — er, have missed having tivo. woo! now i too have the power of commercial skip and 8-second rewind and pause live tv and never having to remember to set the vcr to tape ER at my fingertips! or, i will once i figure out how to wire the damn thing up. i’ve only got so many plugs on my stereo receiver, y’know?

also, went by the district 1 police headquarters to file, as requested by a nice lieutenant a couple of weeks ago, a recovered vehicle report, as they apparently were lying to me when i reported my car un-stolen ten months ago or whenever that was. i had been putting that off since my plates were expired, and i wanted to get my stickers before showing up to the nice police. so, did the stickers earlier this week at the loop express secretary of state’s office — which, by the way, fucking *fantastic* service; i was in and out in five minutes and everyone was totally helpful and nice. it was like an alternate universe secretary of state’s office…not that i’m complaining — and decided to get the police report taken care of this morning before going to target to do some shopping.

turns out that either (1) i shouldn’t have bothered, or (2) one day my car is going to get towed and impounded anyway, as when i came by, they ran a search on my plates and came up with nothing. so, since you can’t file a recovered vehicle report for a vehicle that wasn’t reported stolen in the first place, that’s that. i still feel a little bit uneasy, like one of these days i’m going to get busted for speeding and then get arrested for driving a stolen car, but … :/ i guess there’s not much that i can do, unless i find my original stolen vehicle report (god knows where that ended up; it’s been something like a year since that happened, if not over a year) and follow up with that exact report number. but the nice desk officer said that the system he searched was the same system that anyone checking the car out for any other reason would search, so i should be good to go.

city bureaucracy in action: cross your fingers and hope for the best.

also put a tank of gas in the car. amusingly, it’d been since 14 august since i’d filled it up — over two months. because i am an anal-retentive twerp, i write down gas prices as well as the more utilitarian details like odometer reading and amount of gas. prices have jumped twenty cents since that last fill-up. this makes me feel all that much better about hardly ever driving. also, i shall sit back and enjoy the delightful schadenfreude of all those SUV people paying dollars and dollars and dollars more to fill their wasteful monsters. ha ha! i am 30 mpg fuel efficient and two-months-between-fillups not-driving efficient! sucks to be you! suckerrrrrrrrs!

oh well. must do laundry and clean up the place, which is a mess. then off to go see shaun of the dead tonight with bill, which should be a hoot if its trailer is to be believed.

perky! perky! perky!sabrina! let’s see how long this energy burst lasts.

Music: “Oh My God,” Kaiser Chiefs: Warchild Music – October