Thing that have gone wrong this year.

1. Computer died. New one took huge chunk of refund check that was supposed to be saved for Disneyland.
2. Fire. Took anything else we had saved for Disneyland. Promised out the window for the time being.
3. Cooler broke, required full replacement upon returning to our home in June.
4. Heating coil in oven drops 3 inches and stops working. Required full replacement of oven/stove. (Last week)
5. First cold day of fall and the heater isn't working. Took two days and in the end the heating "specialist" (aged 112, I think) shrugged and says "Seems to be okay now." (Yesterday) The confidence in continued heat eludes me.
6. The years isn't over. Perhaps #6 is meant to reveal itself at a later date.

3 Not Funny / 3 Funny

1. Family members who think they are being helpful even though you did not ask for their help and throw your stuff around so that when you are putting your life together after a traumatic event you find several of your things are broken and have to throw them away no matter the sentiment or how much the cost to replace.
2. Smoke detectors that go through batteries every week so you buy a new one that requires hard wiring, but your electrician brother can't be bothered to come put it in and you can't afford to hire an electrician so instead you have to deal with the panic attack which occurs every time the damned thing beeps.
3. Posers

4. Someone in the library system marked a DVD for 'Blackmail' in the usual way; by putting a large B sticker on the side and another on the cover. What's funny is that this person put the B over the H in Hitchcock so the DVD I rented this week says Alfred Bitchcock's Blackmail. (I am now thinking I have the perfect psuedonym for when I start directing porn films)
5. The first two sentences of my grandfather's biography which I just recently saw: "I was born on August 12, 1905 in Aston, Birmingham England. I do not remember the details but I am glad that it happened." I had sort of forgotten about his sense of humor. He amused me!
6. Victoria (I swear I had nothing to do with these. First was spontaneous, second was HER pose):



The sixth of sixes reaches its end.