Broken Stuff

I've always been kinda satisfied with my "stuff". For the past 3 or 4 years I could honestly look around me and say I had most of what I needed to be comfortable. Seriously...I had a running car that was pretty decent looking despite being 13 years old, I had my TV that was ok, my TiVo that got all my shows, a decent Hi-Fi that will probably last me another 15 years... I was golden.

Now suddenly this year everything seems to be breaking I don't know what it is.

My baby of a car which I've nurtured for a good part of 8 or 9 years now and some 60K miles...is suddenly falling apart. The air conditioner gave up it's last breath the other day, the steering mechanism makes all kinds of squeaking and crackling noises when I turn, and the mileage on it sucks now.

My TV... I still have to hit it a few times like the Fonz to get the picture to show up. The same goes for my A/V switch for my equipment. I have to wiggle the little switches just right otherwise the picture flips around like a picture book. Some kind of loose wiring I suppose...reminds me of the old days with the old NES game system where you had to blow on the cartridges to get some of the games to boot up.

My living room light has started to flicker on and off...

Summammabeeetch.

My wife has begun thinking I got these things out of the flea market and I'm piss poor. I have to convince her, "No baby...this stuff was GOOD shit at one time!"

I'm certainly sick of all this stuff falling apart though.