The convergence of auto mishaps must be some combination of karma and poetic justice. Since the Submersible Death Trap returned to the Armpit of New England six months ago, this is the fourth incident reducing my vehicle from full status (three with the Minivan o' War, including the one that killed it, and now this one). In contrast, prior to May, it had been fifteen months since I'd had any major work done on my car - a stretch that included the whole of my time in Portsmouth. I simply hope this is the last one for a while. Like I said, four in six months - and that doesn't account for all the time the Blue Trooper sat idle while we were underway...
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- Matt Carberry (
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Matt Carberry
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stranded and at the mercy of others...again...
The convergence of auto mishaps must be some combination of karma and poetic justice. Since the Submersible Death Trap returned to the Armpit of New England six months ago, this is the fourth incident reducing my vehicle from full status (three with the Minivan o' War, including the one that killed it, and now this one). In contrast, prior to May, it had been fifteen months since I'd had any major work done on my car - a stretch that included the whole of my time in Portsmouth. I simply hope this is the last one for a while. Like I said, four in six months - and that doesn't account for all the time the Blue Trooper sat idle while we were underway...
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The one in the arena...
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Bonecoming 2017: the second and more contemporaneous part
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You are here... and you are home.
May 1996. My high school band took a trip to Toronto. (We could do such things without passports back then.) The outbound leg of that trip…
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