A series of events

In rapid succession:

The brakes failed on my car last night.

On the freeway.

During rush hour.

No, nobody was hurt.

No, I didn't get into an accident.

In fact, everybody involved made it home just fine.

Expanded: A deer ran in front of my car while I was coming home on Tuesday night, and stopped dead. I had to do likewise, and in the process hammered the brake pedal into the ground (and a nice pair of skid marks into the road). (For what it's worth, I stopped about an inch from the deer, who then bounded off into the woods.) Ever since, I'd been having a little trouble with pressure on the brake lines, but I could still drive fine until about halfway up the interstate, at which point I pressed the brake pedal - and it kept going without doing anything.

Fortunately, through low speed and using the gearbox to slow down, I made it home in one piece. (There were some immensely terrifying moments on the freeway, however.)

In about 15 minutes, I'm going to call, again in rapid succession,

AAA, and

the mechanic to whom I'm towing the car.

Hopefully this is an easily-fixed and inexpensive problem (like "oh, your brake fluid's low" or something).

*sigh*

Cabbages and things

The car needs a new caliper on the passenger side (which explains the persistent grinding I've been hearing over there for about three weeks) and... something to do with the master cylinder, I believe. Grand total, after parts, labor, and tax: $320 and Tuesday at the earliest.

I received my copy of Megatokyo volume 1 yesterday. While I realize that almost all of it's available for free on the web, it's nice to have the book in my hands; if nothing else, I can make people read it without having to sit through 100+ pages with large images to load on a low-bandwidth connection. Also, I can read it in places in which I cannot normally read Megatokyo - like, say, anywhere without a computer.

I have been shamefully bad today. I took the day off to relax, and did not get a single thing accomplished. (Okay, I lie. I found the Wavebuster, the Ice Beam, and the Gravity Suit in Metroid Prime.)

Am not tired. Really.