Well, I've had a bitch of a time at the Motor Vehicles Castle of Hell for the past two days - basically, I went to pay a speeding ticket, and found out that my license had been revoked since 11/01 because of a 'driving without proof of insurance' ticket that I've already paid and proved myself not guilty for. Apparently, you must now send t-shirts with ironed-on slogans detailing your innocence whenever they suggest otherwise. I'm cursed when it comes to anything auto-related, so at least none of this was surprising. Actually, it is sort of surprising my supposedly long-revoked license didn't cause the police to throw me in jail for driving 77 in a 50 zone two months back. Our DMV has seemingly been granted the right to make up rules and regulations as they go along, the only prerequisite being that all new standards must annoy and torture me personally.

This wasn't enough to blow my spirits to the point where I couldn't throw up 1,500 words about Mattel's GUTS! action figures.

Oh, here's something to discuss: a few weeks back I changed the comments order to ascend from the oldest to the newest. I'm not sure if my sentence structure was off in that last one, but you know what I mean. I did this to keep the 'hey I'm on TOP' responses to a minimum, which was probably a little too proactive since it wasn't really a problem to begin with. Still, in the current layout, you've got to scroll down a long way to get to the new comments. Would you prefer that I keep 'em listed this way, or the infamous 'other way.' It's all up to you.