The Daily Twit

• 08:08 Dropped the car off to get brakes checked. Hope it takes long enough to pick up prescriptions in sandy springs and give blood in midtown. #
• 08:38 Got to five points just as the north springs train left. Fine! Pharmacy opens at ten. By the time i got into open air to send this, i'm ... #
• 08:43 Someone should start a zombiepunk band called Brains For Breakfast. Never mind that I have no idea whether the genre exists. #
• 08:58 got to sandy springs an hour early. Going one stop south to hang out at the mall. #
• 09:00 LQTM @ calling Oliver Sacks 'the man who mistook his patient for a literary career'. I disagree, but it's funny nevertheless. #
• 09:19 i should do a puzzle called inspi(red) and donate the same portion of the fee to joinred.com. #
• 09:40 new rule: if her phone is set to silent, the answer to whatever i was going to consult her on is 'fine with me!' #
• 10:06 Replacing front brake pads and rotors: $300. Knowing Jodi won't worry about the brakes: not at all priceless, try to keep up, pal. But c ... #
• 10:12 Can't afford rotate and balance, valve cover gasket, flushing brake system. Will need an oil change in Miami. R&B is free in tampa but w ... #
• 10:14 still, i saved about half the cost by postponing the rest... Not my favorite way to handle maintenance, but it'll have to do for now. #
• 10:53 3 months' meds, four of them, for under $45. I <3 patent expiration and Costco. #
• 11:04 many thanks to the gracious clerk who, when i forgot to get cash back, ingeniously sold me a miscellaneous nothing for one cent, dodging ... #
• 11:23 one slice of pizza later, i'm heading to the american red cross to give the most important gift of the season. i don't mind being a quar ... #
• 11:37 I was tickled when the pharmacist recognized my shirt as being from Threadless. It's an old one, too: icanhaz.com/burnout #
• 11:51 According to a story on zerodB.org in the AJC, US interrogators at Gitmo played "March of the Pigs" at Muslim captives. What a grand irony! #
• 12:01 Well, if there has to be a wicked slope between the bus stop and the Red Cross, I'm grateful it'll be downhill after I donate! #
• 12:38 scratch that gratitude. If not for the hill, i wouldn't have been deferred for a pulse of 104 (acceptable range 50-100). So disappointin ... #
• 12:48 Aaand now I can wait half an hour without a bench or walk 2 miles. I'll hoof it at least until I can find a bench. Maybe 2 miles. I can ... #
• 13:08 Found a bench in front of a Kroger with enough time to grab peanuts and water. #
• 13:58 Goddamn noob 27 bus driver missed my connection by a minute. Now it's faster to take the NEXT run of the 27, then 2 trains, than to take ... #
• 14:04 bus should be here by now. Madness? This is MARTA! #
• 14:43 Just one more train and I can get my car again. #