Although the balance of good/bad isn't looking so good, it has still been a pretty good couple of days. Got to walk around LP running errands and amusing myself while getting the oil changed. Prowled the aisles of Trader Joes. They have some amazing all-natural juice, but with the 12% juice tax, I think I will wait until I get back to VA. Technically it's a "soft-drink" tax, but it includes anything non-alcoholic, sealed and ready-to-drink. Grr.
Oil change people offered to rotate my tires until they realised I really need knew tires, rendering a rotation pretty moot. The next time I will be able to put that kind of cash into my car will be in June when its paid off. Or when I decide to max out the Visa.
Today I went to the library downtown with a long list of awesome books. Only to learn they are all reference books. And the copier is such a rip at 15cents a copy. But because they are reference, I can't run them to the local Kinkos and copy them at half that. But I found enough books to keep me busy.
I have a primo parking space, which is convenient since I got locked out of my house yesterday. I can't open one of the locks, which is the one they locked. Grr.
Finally got a temp gig for tomorrow, which means no more loafing around in my jammies and new gym socks.
Watching some toob before tackling the stack of books again.
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One great thing about South Africa...the listed price in all places include the tax. So if you look at something and you are ok with paying the listed price, you dont really bother to look and see that 14% of that price is actually taxes. Its a wonderful way of the gov't getting its money without the people being completely aware. It makes us all happy!
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