The corpses of dead mice.

...oh, wait, that's the hoff.

Yo momma so fat, she begins the game in both starting areas!

Without the colossal symbol?

Yo momma's so fat, a sun-eater says "no thanks, i'm full."

You must spread some rep around before giving it to wintremute again.

The Colossal symbol is just her shadow

I thought that was a black hole...

The car shopping is done!

I went with the RAV4.


This is the style and color.

Congrats. Car shopping sucks. I can never afford all the options I really want.

I went in with minimal options in mind.
#1 priority - It had to fit the dog crate.
Beyond that I only cared about having power locks and windows, cruise control, and a place to plug in my iPod.
Everyone around here kept trying to convince me to go for the AWD instead of the FWD. I did the math on that. I figured that the difference in price, plus the increased gas usage, plus the increased insurance would essentially work out to about $50 more per month.
My FWD Vibe had done perfectly fine for 11 years. There were perhaps 2 or 3 kinda hairy moments every winter, but otherwise it ran like a champ. (I should also note that a good portion of any issues I'd had could be attributed to the low profile rather than it only having FWD.)
Anyway, when all was said and done I figured that upgrading to AWD would mean that those otherwise hairy moments would be costing $200 each to prevent. No thanks.


The up or down side to the purchase (depending on your perspective) was that they gave me what I thought was a really good price on my trade, but it took no negotiating to get there.
Seriously, I did my research beforehand.
I figured that the bare minimum I'd accept was X. I'd have taken it but not have been happy about it.
I expected to get Y. I'd have been comfortable getting that and figured that's where we'd probably end.
My pipe-dream, high end expectation was Z. I walked in thinking that if I got that I would be getting a bargain.

Damn it if they didn't just offer me Z from the start. I decided not to quibble over that. I walked in having said I'd be happy with that number. The wife told me ahead of time that I was fooling myself and would be lucky to even get X. Win-win. I might have gotten them down, but it was where I wanted to be.

I like Rav 4's.



That dude gets around!



Been listening to Iron Maiden's new album, and I'm liking it. It has a 7th son kind of vibe. My two favorite songs (at this time) are "If Eternity Should Fail", and "The Red and the Black".

Yo momma so fat, Wade wouldn't do her.

Yo momma so fat, Hoff would do her.

Yo mamma so fat we are all doing her right now

Better be on my way to the hospital, i gotta check myself into the Burn Ward.