Saturday, December 02, 2006
Tomorrow came and could have been worse
First off, in writing news, I started work on Magellan's Witch (not wild about the title). I am currently addressing my small but significant change in chapter 3. It's going OK. I'm going to let Scandal sit a bit, look at it, send it out to critique and then unless the critique results are not happy, to my agent.
Since I promised I'd confess my car adventures, here you go. I have a new-to-me car that, naturally, cost more than I had hoped to pay. But after hitting all the on-line dealerships and Craigslist etc it was more than apparent that a car that was in my preferred price range would have a bazillion miles on it and be older than the one that got smushed. Sigh.
Plan B, by the way, was to buy this 1975 Mercedes SEL for $595 and just drive that until I could find/afford something else. But that car turned out to be at an impound lot, which, to my mind, is just not the same as buying an el cheapo car from someone who's been driving it around. Sigh.
Plan B had to be abandoned. In fact, the majority of the deals on Craigslist (for cars I was interested in) turned out to be from people who were, mysteriously, out of the country but willing to ship the car to me... Yeah. Right. So, dealership land for me. I did NOT go to the dealership that sold me the lemon oh so many years ago. The guy who came to greet me was really nice. It was his first day on the job at this dealership and I was his first customer. He writes poetry, by the way. So, I briefly flirted with the idea of a BMW 7 Series that was $16K but it had 97,000 miles on it and only gets 20 mpg. Considering I sometimes drive 50-60 miles a day, such a car just didn't make sense. Drats. So instead I got a 2005 Suzuki thingee that has 10K miles on it. I like it. I just Sigh was so looking forward to paying off the former car and not having a car payment. But I'm happy enough. It gets good mileage and has room for soccer playing boys.
All things considered, the experience could have been much worse and was actually pretty pleasant. I got to drive a big honking Beamer and pretend it was to be mine. Someday maybe.
Since I promised I'd confess my car adventures, here you go. I have a new-to-me car that, naturally, cost more than I had hoped to pay. But after hitting all the on-line dealerships and Craigslist etc it was more than apparent that a car that was in my preferred price range would have a bazillion miles on it and be older than the one that got smushed. Sigh.
Plan B, by the way, was to buy this 1975 Mercedes SEL for $595 and just drive that until I could find/afford something else. But that car turned out to be at an impound lot, which, to my mind, is just not the same as buying an el cheapo car from someone who's been driving it around. Sigh.
Plan B had to be abandoned. In fact, the majority of the deals on Craigslist (for cars I was interested in) turned out to be from people who were, mysteriously, out of the country but willing to ship the car to me... Yeah. Right. So, dealership land for me. I did NOT go to the dealership that sold me the lemon oh so many years ago. The guy who came to greet me was really nice. It was his first day on the job at this dealership and I was his first customer. He writes poetry, by the way. So, I briefly flirted with the idea of a BMW 7 Series that was $16K but it had 97,000 miles on it and only gets 20 mpg. Considering I sometimes drive 50-60 miles a day, such a car just didn't make sense. Drats. So instead I got a 2005 Suzuki thingee that has 10K miles on it. I like it. I just Sigh was so looking forward to paying off the former car and not having a car payment. But I'm happy enough. It gets good mileage and has room for soccer playing boys.
All things considered, the experience could have been much worse and was actually pretty pleasant. I got to drive a big honking Beamer and pretend it was to be mine. Someday maybe.
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