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ORIGINAL RANT FROM OCT 2004 - I have no idea what page I'm talking about O_o]
Holy hell, man! What was supposed to be a quick trip to NO for a mental break from all the horrid bad luck I had this year ended up being just a continuation. Well, the trip was freaking great actually but the way home, good freaking god. We have about seven cars in my family, the dependable of which usually go in the order of Dad's truck, Mom's new Stratus, the Eclipse GSX, then a toss up between Rally and the old Neon (and it goes downhill from there). We decide to take the Eclipse since parking the truckin NO has always proved to be a difficult task. All was fine but I kept hearing a grind in the transmission. Dad said it had been there for a while so he wasn't too worried about it. About 5 miles from the state line of Texas on our way home we lose fifth gear... then fourth gear... then the whole transmission. We were lucky enough to make it across the state line into the travel center in neutral where the car finally just grinded itself to a stop. I'm thinking it's a bearing or something. Bleh, either way, we were still over 9hrs from home. Luckily I have TripleA so we get towed to Orange, Texas aka Bumfuck Eygpt, middle of nowhere, last city in the world so we can get a rental car. Well, after two hours of waiting to get the car since they had none and were waiting on returns what decides to show up as a return? A fucking DODGE RAM TRUCK! My dad almost had a fit. Proof that god has a sense of humor. We finally make it home last night about 3am after driving since 7am. Yeah, needless to say I'm a freaking wreck. So yeah, that was my adventure and really just a tidbit. We had a whole bunch more of random irony and bad luck thrown in but it's just too long of a story for one rant.
In other news, it looks like SCD will be attending Katsucon 11 if we can secure our table. 
I'll have more news on that later on.
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