Yeah, I got it for $2900, and the blue book value listed it at over $5k. I thought it was a fucking steal. Now, I know why the guy was so eager to get rid of it and he's probably laughing his ass off. My car before was a Honda Accord and hardly anything broke on it until it hit 240k miles. From 156k-240k I had to replace the alternator belt and other than that it was standard stuff you expect to do.
I took my Chevy Silverado 1500 with 225,000 miles on it to the top of Mount Evans, all 14,240 feet of it. Didn't have a single issue getting to the top or down. It can't accelerate like it use to, but if the speeds are low the thing can still go forever. Car worked better afterwards for some dam reason. Super impressed, definitely a brand loyal guy from now on. Only problem is a truck with the package I want usually runs a little north of what a guy my age can spend on a car.
I am a GM loyal guy, 90% of my extended family makes a living directly or indirectly from GM, I like most of all the products they have. The massive problem I do have is they have priced themselves out of the working class market by a fair margin. A new 1500 4WD Silverado with mid to low level options is A fully optioned 4WD LTZ truck is over 50K. INSANITY. Now I know with rebates and such that isn't the price you'd pay but it would still be almost 40K. Fuck that noise. I'll be getting one at the end of next year but it will be used, with 60 to 80 thousand miles on the clock. You want to shit a brick go option out a Escalade or Suburban, 75K to 90K.
I was such a lazy ass today I texted my daughter to bring me up the bag of pretzels because I didn't feel like putting pants on. She said she's saving that text. I don't remember the last time I had a day like today. It was glorious. I was somewhat productive as I'm reading Gone Girl. I want to see the movie but feel like I need to read the book first. And why is it when you feel tired and settle in, you can't sleep? Bodies are weird.
I'm on a semi-noir kick at the moment, because the world is a dark and terrible place (see: mastering rejection with grace and poise), and I highly recommend The Drop by Dennis Lehane, The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke and the entire John Corey series by Nelson DeMille. I also recommend Woodford Reserve, the Rolling Stones, and Slash. In Sister Morphine, the line 'why does the Doctor have no face?' resonates with me for no reason I can understand.
Futurewife and I have an annual tradition before every Halloween of watching one of the greatest horror movies (hell, greatest movies period) ever: Spoiler
I think I'm getting old. I remember the weekends where there was nothing I wouldn't look forward to more than getting shitfaced at a club and hitting a waffle house at 2am. Now, I spend my Saturdays running errands, studying and cleaning the house. I somehow spend the same amount of cash, but am well rested and looking forward to work on Sunday evenings. Sure, a fair amount of cold adult beverages are consumed, but its not the pants on head retarded way as before. I'm starting to understand the concept of a mid life crisis, but at least I don't have kids to remind me.
I was nodding along, understanding your progression, and then you just completely lost me with the bolded piece. I have a job that I like and I don't dread going to each day, but even if I'm not getting shmammered on the weekends, I don't look forward to it on Sunday night. At the very least its an end to the previous 48 hours of relaxation and freedom.
Hope you were able to duck tape your head back on. If you did, then don't click on this photo in the spoiler. Don't. Spoiler Spoiler Spiders don't usually bother me. I might make an exception for this one.
I think its interesting how we feel about certain days of the week. People tend to dread Sunday nights because they know they have 5 days ahead of them that are monotonous at best and shitty at worst. It changed my perspective when I used to work weekends. It changed my productivity throughout the week because I had Monday-Thursday off and I worked long hours Friday-Sunday. Because it threw off the normal 40 hour work week schedule that so many of us are used to, it made going to work feel like it was just errands that had to be done versus the 5 day saga schlepping through the daily grind. I think the American routine of what we are used to could be causing us more harm than good.
Head is reattached and doing okay. No vodka in a couple weeks. Margaritas for me! They're so delicious! I saw that and for some reason it doesn't really bug (haha) me. I think because I feel like I can outrun it. And I'll know where it is at all times. Those little guys? They can get in my hair! Blaaahh.
Hold the phone. Just wait a goddamned minute. Kinder Surprise Eggs are banned from the US?! What the shit?
Yep. Totally unlikely that something not native like that could make it to the US. Like Burmese Pythons or Kudzu. Or Ebola.
Well they are "Confectionery Products Containing Non-Nutritive Components". Duh. Is that like the Canadian equivalent of apples with razor blades?
I don't know what kinds of Kinder Eggs were ending up in NOLA, but I assure you that the Canadian ones do not contain razor blades. I can't believe that. I love Kinder Eggs. Those things are tits.
I've read about this before. The candies that bulletin refers to are candy eggs with little toys in plastic shells inside the candy egg. That is the very defintion of "A Bad Idea". It's like they designed the thing specifically to kill small children. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise
Those plastic shells are hard as hell to open. And if your child can swallow that thing whole, your child has a solid future base starring in very specific movies.