~ the firestone on la cienega is definitely my new favorite place for having my flat tires plugged. the mechanic pulled the tire from the trunk and pointed at the screw that was poking out of the rubber and said, ‘all i can do is put a plug in here, as the tire is obviously no good.’ he indicated the fact that there is no longer any tread visible on the tire. in the past, los angeles tire dealers have refused to repair my flats, as the tire ‘wasn’t worth it’.
   me: how long is this going to take?
   saul: i can do it right now.
   me: so i can wait?
   saul: yep.
i wander and wonder around the parking lot, confused as to why he didn’t send me away until tomorrow, as most tire dealers are prone to do. the tire is back on car in minutes, and i am only 30 minutes late to work [w]. i get all this for only $10.

~ okay, this doesn’t seem to be much in the way of a secure line. in the past week, two folks who have appeared on the angry red log have brought its mention in conversation. one [+] asked about my identity, while the other [+] asked about the appropriateness of an entry.

~ hmmmm

~ what else should i say, that i listened to the radio today?

~ our day lacked spectacular happenings. we went shopping.

~ when my speedometer stopped working, it was no cause for concern, for los angeles traffic demands that you drive at your car’s maximum possible speed at all times, which doesn’t pose a problem legally, for the mazda 323se’s top speed can never approach the legal limit without shaking itself into pieces.

after two years of climbing through the passenger side door–due to driver’s door being un-unlockable from the outside–i just gave up and stopped locking the door if i would be back at the car within forty-eight hours. however, now the door lock is broken from the inside, as well, so i can’t exit the car via the door, with the inside or the outside handle. after leap month, i’ll be returning to the bike.

~ this is a fairly self-conscious endeavor. the reader probably imagines that something amazing must have occurred and inspired me to create this log. today, though, i spent most of the day in the library doing research or laying out photos of the site i found for this semester. well, i went down to the marina for lunch, and i was walking through the shopping center, wondering if i should buy bad coffee that is convenient or good coffee that is out of my way when i was passed by a man in white lycra shorts; i wasn’t going to ‘look’ at his penis, but i couldn’t help it. it practically jumped out at me. i thought that i’d been around a bit, but even ‘snag this’ and ‘the rustler’ paled in comparison. i don’t know how to describe his member without just admitting that i was frightened. what was this guy doing out in public? for that matter, what would this guy do in private? his johnson seemed better suited for a mule than for another human. i feel sorry for his partner, who no doubt regrets what probably was once considered a fortunate novelty.

~ well, telling stories that make me appear to be obsessed with a stranger’s genitals is perhaps an unfortunate way to begin the latest feature of the angry red planet, but my feeling that this won’t be going anywhere relieves me from investing too much.