Hello webworld!
Lookie! My very first blog attempt outside of Livejournal or Greatestjournal or any of those places. I can post what I want when I want how I want to offend whoever I want and. . . SO WHAT! 
To anyone who dares to take a peek. . . This is the official Horse and Rabbit blog. It’s also probably the best way to keep track of the website or the brilliant (aka: CRAZY) masterminds behind it.
Posts will be categorized accordingly. This one, for example, is going under the “Horse” category because it’s a personal entry about Horse Bunny. 
(That’d be yours, truly.)
I figure I’d take the time to introduce the website, the blog and myself.
You may see, in the upper right-hand corner of the blog a comment about car tires. We’ve had extremely bad luck with tires on our cars as of recent, and, as luck would have it, I have a story from Thursday!
Thursday morning, as we were driving on a westbound freeway to work, I had to veer slightly off the road as a car in the lane to the right decided to encroach on us. I hit four or five box dots, but the last one I hit before coming back into my lane made this loud POP! and all of a sudden there was just grinding and grinding and what had been a nice normal conversation became yelling so that Rabbit could hear me (and vice versa). I guess I was just in denial or something, because we had a flat repaired not even four months ago. So I pulled over onto the left shoulder/median (traffic would not permit me over to the right shoulder). Sure enough, when I poked my head out the car door to look at the front left tire, it was flat as flat could be.
Now with the hazard lights blinking, I got on my cell phone and dialed up AAA. This is where the “comedy of errors” begins.
AAA sends out their membership cards for two-year periods of time even though you have to renew them every year. Due to the nature of our mail service and the fact that we’ve moved recently, I haven’t received the membership renewal letters and when not in use, the AAA thing kinda slips your mind.
The person I spoke with, after setting up a tow-truck for us (we have no spare since the last time we lost a tire, the people who put the spare on the car didn’t give it BACK to us), was going to help me renew our membership.
Then, our pay-ahead phone service ran out of time and my cellphone died. Not knowing if the call was officially completed, we climbed out of the car (Rabbit had to, literally, because he was too close to traffic on the passengers side to be able to safely open his door) and decided which, of the three nearby callboxes, to attempt getting to.
Traffic was piling up on the Westbound side of the freeway and there was no way we’d be able to safely cross to get to the callbox on the right shoulder. Traffic was free-flowing on the Eastbound side, but at least there was the occasional break where we could run across. So we trudged through the median (just LUCKY I didn’t wear the stilettos I was going to wear!) and made the trek about a half mile back.
Callboxes are interesting things, really. If you’ve never used one. . . well, no, I don’t recommend it. But things worked out fairly well. A Caltrans worker spotted us and at least was able to offer us a ride in his tow truck BACK to our car.
From our car, we waited another twenty minutes for our tow-truck to arrive and then ANOTHER half hour for him to hook it up and get our car on the flatbed.
Meanwhile, I’ve been needing to use the bathroom since five in the morning. By then it was 7:45. We didn’t get to the tire shop until after 8, and I didn’t get to work until 8:30. Mind you, I’m supposed to be in by 6:30 and was unable to call (y’know, since our PHONE died!) to let my boss know I was running a wee bit late. Ultimately, I didn’t get to go to the bathroom until after 9. EEK!
The two rays of sunshine?
1. Since we got towed, we didn’t have to waste another 12 miles of gas. Out in CA, that probably saved us a couple bucks! I’m not exaggerating.
2. The tires, since we got the warranty, were completely repairable and covered. We went to pick up our car (the tire place is literally right across the street from where Rabbit and I both work) and they just handed us the keys. “Here you go, kids, have a nice day!”
I figured that would be a decent example of how Murphy (of “Murphy’s Law” fame) works in Rabbit’s and my lives.
My next post, I think, will be a little introduction of us (Rabbit, and me- Horse) and a little about the site.
So maybe one of these days I’ll be able to get Rabbit, himself to post here. I assume I will- he’s just busy working to get this site up and running (as I should be doing)!
Until next time!
Keep on the look-out for site update posts at this blog!
We will be marking milestones and progress up until opening day.
(Opening Day: eta End of September 2005)
Love and Flowers,
Horse Bunny
