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I got a flat tire for the first time this past weekend. I got home from work on Thursday night and thought everything was fine, but when I went outside a bit later in the evening I noticed that my rear driver’s side tire looked pretty flat (but not all the way flat). I’m kind of a hypochondriac with my car sometimes, so I was genuinely shocked that one of my tires was actually flat. I put air in the tire right then, but I could hear a hissing noise signaling its refusal to stay put as soon as I finished. I thought the tire would be completely flat by the next day and was starting to think about having to buy new tires, but when I woke up the next day it was kinda flat, but not horribly so. It wasn’t in any condition to be driven on though, so I had to call in to my internship and tell them I wouldn’t be able to come in, and then get to work on getting things fixed. I had to be at work (job, not internship) at 3:00pm, and was hoping I’d be able to make it.

So, I took off the semi-flat tire, put on the spare, and went over to Dunn Tire, which is right down the street. They said they could fix the tire in about an hour. I walked over to a discount bookstore in Northtown Plaza, killed a bunch of time in there, actually bought a book (about how the Democratic Party has alienated young voters by catering to “the middle” and also by being run by old, out-of-touch people… obviously written before this current election, which makes it all the more interesting in my opinion) and then went to Manhattan Bagel, got a cappuccino, and started reading the book. (It seems pretty interesting.) After that, an hour had passed, so I went back. It was all set, cost around $25, and left me with plenty of time to get to work. All in all, not a horrible experience! As far as getting a flat tire goes, it sure could’ve been a lot worse.

Oh, and I forgot to mention: the culprit was a rusty nail. Why there are rusty nails just sitting in the middle of the road waiting to ruin somebody’s day, I will never know.

In other news, I was playing with the website that I did for my last assignment in Programming for the Web. For the assignment, we were still supposed to use a table for at least part of the layout, so that’s what I did. I wanted to see how easy it would be to convert the page to a full CSS, no tables layout. Turns out it was extremely easy! You can check it out here if you’d like (at least until I start working on the third assignment, which will eventually go in that location). It doesn’t look too different from the old version I linked to in my last post. It’s more different on the inside than it is on the outside.

For some reason I have absolutely zero interest in doing my homework. I guess I better do it anyway!