Apparently someone is trying to kill my wife...

So yesterday I get a call from my wife, and she appears to be a little freaked out. She goes on to tell me that as she approached an intersection and went to apply the brakes the pedal simpy sunk to the floor. She rolled right through a red light. Luckily nobody was there, and nobody got hurt (yes at least one of my kids was in the car)! I quickly left work and went to check out the car. I swapped vehicles with her and drove the car one block home using the emergency brake. I jacked the car up and had her pump the pedal, and it was quickly apparent that I had a large leak in the brake system. I pulled the front-right tire (where all the fluid was dripping) and had her do it again. The fluid was being pumped out of a cut brake line! This is the kind of thing that you expect to happen in the movies, not in real life. I am sure that this wasn't something that someone did to her car, and just due to normal wear. I ran to the parts store and replaced the line and bled the brake system (replaced all the brake fluid) and things were back to the normally spectacular brakes. Now I need to check the others for wear, because I would hate for this to happen again...

odds and ends

So apparently it snowed like an SOB on the west side and up north today, but my house and at work hadn't seen a snowflake at all...that is until 5:00 just when it was supposed to be slowing down, then it snowed like an SOB up here for about an hour. Haven't been out just yet, but it looks like a few inches.

Good news is that I think I have my CS homework ready to be turned in, I just need to work the extra credit and we will be good to go.

Bad new is that I haven't finished my math homework, and I am no closer to getting it done because for the first time in my life I am utterly and totally lost.

It's gonna snow?

So the WeatherTards™ are at it again, predicting snow all day. Even my Google desktop weather station shows that it is snowing outside, all I see is clouds. I opened up the radar, and hell it sure does look like a big one is coming, but I am betting that nothing big happens. WeatherTards™.com They show the following (oh, and these are all different than they were two hours ago):
12:00 PM - 100% chance of Precipitation - it's now noon and its not snowing...WTF?
1:00 PM - 100% chance of Precipitation
2:00 PM - 100% chance of Precipitation
3:00 PM - 100% chance of Precipitation
4:00 PM - 90% chance of Precipitation
5:00 PM - 90% chance of Precipitation
6:00 PM - 80% chance of Precipitation
7:00 PM - 70% chance of Precipitation
8:00 PM - 60% chance of Precipitation
9:00 PM - 60% chance of Precipitation
10:00 PM - 70% chance of Precipitation
11:00 PM - 80% chance of Precipitation
12:00 PM - 80% chance of Precipitation

Nice job on predicting the weather, I am sure glad I drove my truck instead of my car (about a 10 MPG difference). These damn WeatherTards™ are costing me money!

On a side note, I am at work doing homework and chasing a memory leak. I am struggling in my math class, and I don't know what to do.