May 2, 2000

I'm not sure what it is about my Camaro. The car runs fine; it is just the kinds of mishaps that people seem to get into with it. It's not like it drives poorly, with the possible exception of having the turning radius of a supertanker, but that's beside the point. The last time I loaned the car to someone, they got into an accident with it… while parking it.

When I got back from the gym, I had found out from Jenna, or actually her friend that the battery in my car died. Naturally, it died because they had left my car's lights on. [Groan] We briefly tried jump starting it, but the charge didn't seem to take. This happens when it has been drained sufficiently. Not that they were trying to drain it, at least I didn't think they were. How do people forget to turn off their lights? In all my years of driving (fifteen or so), I have only left my lights on two times.

I suppose that it's a good thing that I have a battery charger and that the car is at my place. We elected to charge the battery. The extension cord I have does not quite reach the car though, and it is generally a little safer to charge the battery outside the car. We got my tools and removed the battery from the car. It takes about three hours to fully charge, so that puts the target time at about 2am.

Oh, I still hadn't gotten dinner, so I went to Subway, and came back to home, at least for a while. Work was still pretty hectic, and I had to go back tonight. I took a quick shower and went back to work. I spent a few hours investigating and fixing bugs, what else is a software engineer to do?

It must've been about 4am or so before I decided to go home. I still had a couple of things to do. First, I contact lenses were giving me all kinds of trouble and I needed to get some cleaning solution since I was out. Second, I needed to get some gasoline since I would have little spare time tomorrow before my doctor's appointment. That's okay, the stops would be short. Okay, ordinarily they would be short stops.

As I left the building and turned off the alarm in my car, I noticed that it wasn't behaving quite right. As a matter of fact I noted that the reason my alarm was acting up was because my battery was nearly dead… because I left the lights on. [Sigh!] I'll never hear the end of this one. I called up corporate security, they would jump start the car as long as you call them. I sat downstairs by my car with the hood open, waiting for these guys to show up. It only took them a few minutes to come by.

I went to do my errands, I got to bed by about 5am. A typical night.

May 2, 2000