AlKim: Winter keeps on getting better and better. I did some cycling on slicks. Interesting handling characteristics now. I don't really mind, but it would be nice if the brakes didn't lock up so easily.

Not only that, but it turns out my winter boots are beginning to disintegrate from the inside. I've had them for several years so I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but too bad I'm also rubbish at buying clothing, including footwear. EDIT: Bought a new pair online, hope they ship fast.

Fenixp: Of course it's an excuse, it's work for crying out loud. Do you have any idea how hard can it be to get a job nowadays? That set aside, who forced you to help or ... Well do pretty much anything for your friend in the past? Did he / she want any of what you did at gunpoint? Did you have freedom of not helping him/her? Yes? Well in that case, you've done so because you wanted to. And now you'd hold that person in some kind of self-imposed debt? This entire idea of any of your friends actually being in any way obliged to help you when you need it sounds rather silly.

If they don't help you, well, that is tough, but it's you who's to blame for putting energy into them in the past without getting to know them better, for believing that they won't turn their back on you the very minute you want to be on the receiving end. Even if you were friends for a long time in the past, even when you were helping each other for years and the help was genuinely mutual, it might just happen that the other person's going trough stage in a life that's very tough or just unbearable and doesn't even tell you about it. If the help was never mutual and you were always giving, well... You should have seen that coming. This entire thing reminds me of a friend who was brutally friendzoned by one girl - I've kept poundig all this into his head and he, thank god, understood eventually. But got incredibly hurt during the process.

Adzeth: Today I saw a guy walking along the street with a knife in his hand. The situation didn't feel all that threatening (other than that he was swinging a knife in public), but like... damn it, people! Stop doing crap like that!

Also, you friend people should listen to Fenixp. He seems legit.

langurmonkey: He is lucky he did that in Finland and not in the USA.

timppu: Why?

Adzeth: I'm guessing it's something related to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z6CYm5tfB8&feature=player_detailpage

EC-: A giant noreaster/hurricane thing is headed directly for my house. It's gonna be a long two days.

desnoscross: Not to make light, but my family dog shares the same name as Hurricane Sandy, which I feel is an appropriate metaphor.

EC-: Making light is perfectly acceptable; humor is the only thing that keeps me alive sometimes.

Where my house is, I am positioned in an elevated area without many trees, so I am hoping that the damage here will be kept to a minimum. I am missing work, which sucks, but I think my position is pretty good otherwise (I'm keeping a bunch of stuff charged, too). In the major cities (particularly Philadelphia) and coastal areas around where Sandy makes landfall, however, there's bound to be some major devastation.

EDIT: Also, I love the John Belushi quote under your name.