Normally Monday's are a bad thing. I think I picked that up from reading too many Garfield comics when I was a kid.
Monday started off not-to-good, I got stopped by traffic about 1/4 mile from home, just before the West Bay public dock on Northwest Point Road. It was bumper-to-bumper stop-and-go traffic all the way through West Bay, down Seven Mile Beach and really didnt clear up at all until I turned at the bypass to go to Texaco and then Cafe Del Sol. 40 minutes to go about 8 miles.
I decided to stop at Thompson Shipping on my way in to work this morning, just because Im a sucker for punishment. My Jeep was supposed to arrive (damaged) yesterday, so I thought I'd pop in and take a chance and see if the paperwork was there. It was! w00t! $972.76 cents US for shipping a car down here from Florida. 738.50 was the freight charge, 139.26 in bunker surcharge (I assume that means fuel), 55 for documentation and 40.00 security charge. Next stop is Customs, but after digging out and making a point of grabbing my documentation, I forgot it at home, so I need to do a little apple polishing this mornigng and see if I can get some personal time to run home and get it and go out to Customs... then insurance, then inspection, and then licensing. I'll probably wait and do the licensing tomorrow, go stand in line before they open and be one of the first ones in.
After that I was heading down Eastern Ave and heard the end of “broken” that song by some band I don't know and the girl from Evanescence. The DJ came on and said that was song 1 of “what do these songs have in common?” and then played Shiny Happy People by REM. I took a chance, dialed them up and they answered right away. I said “Are they duets?” and TA-DA! I won lunch at A La Kebab! “Sweet!” I said “free Kebab and I don't even have to get drunk first!”. They said my name wrong when they announced me as the winner (after playing the third song, the one with Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow) but I'm SO over people pronouncing my name wrong, I got over THAT about 25 years ago.