Cold today, but at least it isn't raining. The sky is the bluest blue it's been in a while.

Asked mother dearest for some money this morning - lunch money, because I'd run out of money for the week yesterday - and she went, "well don't you have your own money?" So I explained I'd spent it all on stuff, like I tend to do, and she said, and I quote: "Well, if you can't go to sleep at midnight like I keep asking you to do, I don't see why I should give you lunch money". So, uh, because I went to sleep at about half past midnight rather than midnight, she wanted to force me to skip lunch, something she's scolded me for doing once or twice "because skipping a meal is bad for your health". Am I the only one who sees a major contradiction here?
She eventually relented and handed over the money, but still...

And to the idiot who nearly backed up into me this morning: look, lady, I appreciate that having a Big Fuckoff SUV makes you feel Really Powerful and all, but you need to look where you're going. Parking on the sidewalk so nobody can pass while you take your sweet time buying your newspaper and yammering on and on with other people, and then backing up without looking if anybody's behind you, is utterly idiotic. Owning a Big Fuckoff SUV doesn't make you own the road, nitwit.

SUVs suck. No-one needs a car that big unless they have a really bad inferiority complex. Maybe that explains it...

Cyber, there are reasons for owning SUVs - try living in parts of the world that require them. Yes, many people own them as status symbols, but they are effective broken-country vehicles - which is what they should be used for.

Oh boy, I've had too many experiences with "Big Fuckoff SUVs"

I was driving back from the Santa Rosa mall in Destin about four months ago, in the Chevy Venture van, then I'm right about to pull into a turn lane to get on the highway back home... Then this lady in said Big Fuckoff SUV cut me off, nearly hit the front of the van as she was doing so, and forced me to hit the brakes going at 45 MPH... Needless to say, I was lucky she wasn't going any slower or I would have hit her directly in the back of her SUV.

idiots...