So now I've pissed off Germany, too?

"I had...a bad...experience!"  from The Italian Job.

Earlier this week I said some rather disparaging things about India, and immediately my technology tools all went kaput.  This necessitated a call to Yahoo customer service, which of course is contracted out to a couple of semi-English speaking idiots in....INDIA!   It has been suggested to me this was simply Karma coming home to roost with a vengeance.  (NOTE:  Just as I typed this, the battery compartment door on my wireless keyboard popped open and the batteries fell out.  That's creepy!)

Yesterday my car's driver side power window wouldn't open, and I remembered there was a fuse that controlled just the driver's side front window.  The other 3 windows worked fine.  So while I was out making my rounds I stopped in to my mechanic and asked him to please check it.

He got in my car (an Audi), turned on the key, hit the "down" switch....and it came down.  DAMN!  So it was just me?  Am I jinxed or what?

Then he tried to close it, and just as happened to me....nothing.  Now it was stuck down*.  Yes.  I AM jinxed.

What have I done to piss off Germany?  I like Germany, especially their cars.  *sigh*

I need the weekend to hurry up and get here.  *pout*

S

*They got it back up temporarily. It wasn't the fuse.   Replacement parts are coming pronto from Canada.  I'm just thankful they aren't coming from #$%^& India.  ;)

To the rescue

Today while my brother was at one of our jobsites he noticed a small bird had flown down one of the chimneys and was trapped in the firebox.  (There is a glass screen over the face of the firebox.)  He tried but was unable to get the glass door open to let the bird out, so he just left it there. 


Frankly, bro isn't very mechanically inclined, so I drove all the way out there myself, about 30 miles round trip, to see if I could do something to save the little bird.  I guess I'm just a softie.  I found the 4 clamps that held the door on and it popped right off, and with a little coaxing the bird found the windows I had left open for it. 


Have you seen the commercial where the guy swerves to miss a beaver on the road, then some time later the same beaver drops a tree on the road in front of the same guy, preventing him from driving off into the swollen river?  I wonder if little birds have similar karma, or if that's just reserved for mammals with provocative names?


S