I finally have a desk in my room, so I was able to set up Calvin (my Dell desktop… yes, I name my computers) and finally have my music collection back!

(Random fast fact about Kendall: she still does not own an iPod.)
-> I'm cheap, what do you expect?

Anyway, my car is now back to its perky self, thank goodness. Although I could have gone without the sizable repair bill, I'm glad it works now.

Today I went up to Herndon to pick up a bed frame/headboard/footboard (which, turns out, didn't fit in my car, so that was a wasted trip), and decided to do the ol' "go on the airport access road and turn around there so you don't have to pay the stupid toll" route. Bad, bad, BAD idea. About a quarter of a mile before my turnaround exit, traffic comes to a complete standstill. No "creeping along at 15 miles per hour, it sucks to own a manual right now" traffic. This was, "put your car in park and shut it off, because we're not going ANYWHERE."

After about 10 minutes of this, people started getting out of their cars to see what the hell was going on. I look over to my right and start seeing motorcycles coming off one of the exit ramps to the airport… Some guy shouts out that he heard that there's this 1000 motorcycle "9/11 remembrance" brigade going through, so they closed off the road temporarily to let these guys do their loop around the access road sans traffic. At this point, it was like a nonstop stream of Harleys, Hondas, and what have you off the exit ramp to my right, and back onto the access road to my left.

Okayy… I'm sorry, but were there any signs indicating that the flow of traffic would come to a dead halt for 20 minutes so a bunch of hog riders could go by? Nope. Nothing to indicate that, "Hey, we're going to basically create a huge traffic jam, possibly causing multiple rear-ender accidents by making everyone stop in the middle of the highway." What.the.heck. Honestly, that's great that they're commerating the anniversary of 9/11, but do you have to close down the only direct road to Dulles Airport without at least warning people or giving them an alternate route? I can't even imagine how many people probably missed their flights because of this. Good intentions - stupid logic - overall a bad idea.

Enough of my boring life. Off to bed.