August 26, 2012

  • Weekend Update With Random Johnson

    As you might know from previous posts, I've got a couple of things broken in my life right now. We will start with the most important thing, my house. See, back on June 29 a heavy storm passed through the area. And by heavy I don't mean anything too major.............just 92 mile an hour winds. Well my neighbor's tree decided that it couldn't handle "a little wind" and one of its large branches chose to break and relocate itself on my house and lawn. Well this left a gaping nearly two foot hole in my roof along with damage to the fascia and siding torn off from the wind. Since then I have been fighting with the wonderful State Farm (and by wonderful I mean fuck you, State Farm) along with having contractors come out and assess the damage. Finally though, this week there seems to be an end in site. It appears that this is finally the week that the damn thing gets fixed!

    The other pressing issue is my car. While driving to work nearly three weeks ago, the transmission on my 2012 Ford Fiesta (with around 10,000 miles on it, mind you) decided that it had had enough of this shit and died. Fortunately it died right in front of the dealer that I bought it from, which was really convenient. In fact, my boss said that the car was unreliable, yet courteous. As you might expect, the thing was fortunately still under warranty, so they would fix it for free but it would take three weeks. They told me they would give me a loaner car so I asked them for a Mustang. They told me they would be able to loan me a 2011 Ford Mustang but it had to be the Ford Focus version. Since then I have been excitedly driving around in a 2011 Mental Mustang. Ohhh, it's sweet, what with it's four doors, rather average pickup, and 34 miles to the gallon gas efficiency.

    They left me a message the other day. Turns out, they should have the parts in by Tuesday which means that I could potentially get the damn thing back Tuesday or Wednesday. The way I see it though, it is no big rush; hell the longer they have it the less miles that are put on the Fiesta, not like the house, which has me very concerned everytime it rains as the hole is only protected by a tarp. But, at this point I'm feeling a sense of relief that both issues will likely be resolved by the end of the week.