I’m not a big believer in religion but sometimes I do feel tested. We’re now eight weeks away from our estimated due date. Last week my laptop–the one I do all my work on–died. It died once before and I’m not sure if I’m going to try to get it fixed this time around. The rub is that I can’t afford to replace it and I can’t afford to be without it.

My car has been on its last leg for a long time now. We’ve only been using it when we absolutely had to, which we absolutely had to on Friday night when my wife was driving home from work in the freezing rain and her car broke down. Turns out the transmission is shot on hers, which is not great news two weeks after we fixed the A/C, power steering, and a CV joint.

We ended up putting a large sum on the credit card to repair my Hyundai Accent (somehow that car always gets a reprieve). The list of things done to it was a page long. I had been avoiding those repairs in the hopes that we could trade it in for a new car at some point, but I had to bite the bullet. We live 25 miles from Austin and we have to have at least one working car.

Saturday was spent going back and forth with the repair shop. I spent several hours there but I managed to get both cars to them, get both diagnosed, and worked out what work was going to be done to them. Getting the one with the broken transmission home today was the real challenge (that’s not going to be fixed anytime soon). At five miles an hour it takes a very long time to drive the ten miles from the repair shop to my house. I did it though and I have no idea what to do with the car now that I have it home. Maybe CraigsList.

Things have been tight for a while, but this is the first time they’ve been scary.

To the six people who read this: sorry I haven’t posted in a long time. There never seems to be enough time these days.

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