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FAVORITES:

State: New Hampshire (closely followed by Vermont)
Car: Mitsubishi Evo X
Attire: Stained, but clean, jeans & T-shirt
Color: Purple
College memory: The night a couple friends and I went... oh right the statute of limitations isn't up
President: Ronald Reagan
Drink: Raw milk
Olympic sport: Super G
Ski resort: Burke Mountain
Word or phrase: "Minor details" (said dismissively)
Vermont resident (current): Rusty Dewees

LEAST FAVORITES:

State: California (closely followed by New York)
Car: Chevy Aveo
Attire: Turtleneck & sweatpants
Color: Brown
College memory: The Saturday night I was kept awake until 4am by the party in my suite when I had to get up at 8 for church.
President: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Drink: Dr. Pepper
Olympic sport: Curling
Ski resort: Anything in western NY.
Word or phrase: "Compromise"
Vermont resident (current): Bernie Sanders

Catch me if you can...

So the only angle from which my Saturn appears to have a complete fresh gloss black paint job is from the rear (having just painted the rear bumper and trunklid this evening). There is also one shiny black headlight cover and a shiny section on the right front from cover-up work this weekend. But no matter. The only view you're going to get of my car once I turn it on is from (you guessed it!) the rear. Heh heh. Seriously though, if I did what the guy in this video did, that wouldn't be any joke.

Caledonia Fair

So I went to the fair on Sunday to watch the demo derby as is my tradition every summer. However, after asking various friends and family members, no one wanted/was available to go with me. So I went by myself. Mistake. Going to the fair by one's self is absolutely no fun. The one exciting looking ride I wanted to go on required pairs of people so I had to wait around for several minutes and ask several people before I found someone willing to go with me. The ride did, indeed, turn out to be exciting, but also nausea-and-headache-inducing. Luckily I had not eaten any food for several hours so I did not lose my cookies, but it effectively ruined my already-starting-to-wane enthusiasm for the fair. Ah well. I did make use of the nice weather to do some work on my Saturn (installing new speakers and some painting).

New Car!

I am now the proud owner of a 1994 Saturn SC2 2 door coupe. The 124 horsepower twin-cam engine has 138,000 miles on it, the fiberglass body panels will never rust, the frame is solid, the car returns mid-30's milage figures, and I paid a whopping $900 for the car. Only things it needed to make it road-worthy were new tires, windshield wipers, a coolant temperature sensor, and an oil change. Oh, and I have to figure out how to unplug the drain lines on the sunroof so it doesn't leak. But so far it seems like a heck of a bargain.