New Car - A week or so ago on my day off, I was driving through the grey streets of Bellingham in my trusty '85 SAAB trying to decide what to do with my day without computers. I had been interested by a 2006 Kia listed by the local credit union as a repossessed vehicle and for a pretty decent price. So I decided to finally get proactive about my car situation and went for a test drive. It was alright, nothing fancy, and though worlds apart safety and reliability-wise from the SAAB it wasn't special enough to validate the extra monthly payments/commitment. You see, my problem with purchasing a new car wasn't that I couldn't afford a hundred or so more dollars a month (especially after canning my iPhone reducing my bills by $100) but that most of the cars I could afford were not appealing enough for me to upgrade and enter into a 5+ year commitment. If I were to buy a new car and decide to commit to monthly payments for that long it would have to be awesome. And the Kia was not awesome, it would have been me settling, and that I cannot abide. So, admittedly because of their enticing advertising, I drove to the nearby Hyundai dealership. I described my desire for a nice car for around $150 a month, and down I went. I was shown the 2004 Mazda 3, IT was awesome. A few hours later, several other car showings later, I was signing the paperwork for my new car. These salesmen are good, they have creepy phrases like "if I can get this car down to $150 for you, is this something you could drive away today?". But I took it for a long drive, I picked Emma up from her dorm in it, she had absolutely no idea, and the look on her face was priceless. I felt better about it talking it over with her, and after driving it around a little more I decided to make it official. So now you can see me (if you're lucky) driving around in a green Mazda 3i 2004, with awesome rims, 0-60 in 11 seconds, it even has this cool anti-theft feature called lo-jack, basically on my key ring is a black box, and if my car starts without that box in the direct vicinity the service notifies me and the police and they can track it. So I'm selling the SAAB, it's been a very firm car for the 2+ years I've had it, taken me many many places, seen many many things, and it'll be sad to see it go, but it's time for reliability, performance, and safety.
New Phone - So as mentioned above I'm getting rid of my iPhone, it costs me $100 a month, and I have the option now to have a plan for $10 dollars a month and get 1,500 minutes unlimited text messaging/nights/weekends/mobile to mobile. Obviously HUGE savings, so I bought a cheap Verizon phone, and started the process of changing over. All was falling into place when yesterday I had a lengthy conversation with the owner of the computer shop I work at, discussing our strategy for selling Verizon phones, and especially the new Droid. Long story short, he offered to buy me one if I committed to head up the phone section of our company and so I could have the hands on experience with the device to really sell it, and demo it. Wow, so I'm excited, I'll have to update on how that goes. Also picture of the car to come.
That's all I can think of for now, thanks for getting to the end, and you're off the hook, I could never reveal the ending to that movie. It would be the douchiest thing in the entire world.
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