Some good news from the nickel-and-dime front

I finally called State Farm about that hit-n-run from last Janurary, and they've got no problem with covering it as a "collision" (rather than a two-party accident), so that's pretty good. The main reason I didn't call until now was my ignorance of having anything except liability in my auto policy, and recently learned otherwise when the time came to pay for another year of it. I asked for the mininum MA insurance package, and I guess it requires more than ME does. (Or I was bamboozled. But I guess I can't regret it now, if so.)

Was honest about my silly error, and as I hoped, they just put down Jan 1 as the date of occurrence (and maybe it was, for all I can recall) and happily fudged the details where necessary. It will be nice to have a pretty car again. Maybe I will go the whole nine yards and have its interior cleaned out, too. I've attended to it to some degree over the last year, since I've started caring more about personal-environment cleanliness, but some of the heavy-duty cruft that literally dates back to the Hermon era needs professional-grade scouring.

Hmm, the tires, too. One of them is still the used guy I got to replace a blowout from the 1998 ice storm. It would also be nice to be able to have effective brakes, or the ability to climb uphill, when driving in snow.

Declaration of January intent [another nonsensical post]

Got my email confirming my pre-reg for Arisia 2004. Thanks to fearless Boston Warren leader cthulhia for arranging this reward for all us goofy bunnies during Arisia 2003. (And otherwise making the entire gaming end of that con what it was, really. It was Good.)

Not wearing the ears this year, alas... can't commit to any demos because I intend to do the MIT Puzzle Hunt for the first time, and sadly this happens on the same weekend. However, I will definitely try to attend some of the Tim Powers-related talks or panels, and may do some on-the-fly Looney stuff, depending.