January 9, 2003

• It’s 5am. I just did usenet compulsively for 3 hours. I bet I wrote a bunch of stupid stuff.
  
  I’m feeling better. The dizziness is mostly gone. Just the occasional weirdness when I turn around too fast or look up from reading.
  
  Now I can finally put some energy into getting a new muffler for the car. The old one fell right the hell off a while back, before the inner ear thing started.
  
  In fact, it was waaaay back before Christmas. I was just driving along and there was this horrible noise, and people in the cars around me were looking at the back of my car.
  
  Honda has genius engineers. The muffler is held in place by what amounts to big thick rubber bands. The pipe had broken just at the joint going into the muffler. As it swung down, my car ran over it, but it was still held in place by these rubber bands. So it scraped along the pavement, horribly.
  
  After I’d pulled the car off the road, all I had to do was pull the rubber bands off their mounting posts and the muffler was free. I barely got my hands dirty.
  

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