Ad Spoof - Hope For America!?

Are you too ineffectual at work to be secure from losing your job?
Do you have too few friends and coworkers that can give you positive references?
Are you too indolent to have to think about looking for a new job?

Do you have trouble saving for retirement?
Money just burn a hole in your pocket?
No plan for that rainy day?

Do you feel cheated by those big corporations and their fat cat executives?
Are you outraged by their seeming lack of work in return for huge sums of money?
Do you wish you could get your hands on some of that money?

Then do we have the solution for you! Just vote democratic come election day! Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and the rest of their crew will make everything easy for you! They will steal that unfairly earned money from those rich corporate executives and put it in your pocket if you happen to lose your job. Don't worry about finding a new job, just hop on the next bandwagon that happens to pass your way because there will be that comforting safety net of unemployment payments. Don't worry about retirement either, the Obamaites will take the rest of that stolen money and put it into the failing Social Security system to make sure you will have money to retire on. And rest assured, Obama and clan won't make you feel bad for being a useless worker, a terrible money manager, and an accomplice to armed robbery from hardworking entrepreneurs. Instead, they will put your conscience at ease by telling you everyone is entitled to a certain minimum standard of living and that we need to take care of America's poor. And no, they won't even mention how America's poor live like kings compared to a large chunk of the world's population.

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New List

So I am now starting a hall of shame: Second Amendment Weasels - those politicians who took it upon themselves to pass laws contrary to the Second Amendment using underhanded means. The first inductees are House Representatives William Hughes (D-N.J.) and Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) for their parts in amending the because-of-them misnamed Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986. Also, negative thanks going out to my former hero President Reagan for actually signing the bill.

Long Day

Today I woke up at 4:15 after not catching up from Monday night's sleep (which is a whole story in and of itself, involving a big party, fights, police, an arrest, and a hospital visit, among other things, at least from what I gather). I spent a total of 8 hours in a car today, 3 riding and 5 driving, only 2 on my dime though. My boss and I spent 6 hours at the auction in CT, selling 1 car and buying 2, which was only our bare minimum goal, and the second car ended up having transmission and motor mount issues... hopefully not too expensive to fix; we did get the car cheap enough to cover some repairs and still make a profit though. The car we unloaded had some significant issues to fix and we sold it for only about $200 less than we had in it so my boss figured good riddance. Anyway, after we got back I went to my parents to pick up some shocks I had ordered last week so I can put them on tomorrow after work, just in time to be all ready for my alignment appointment on Friday...

Favorite list

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.

Southern Auto Auction

Yesterday my boss and I went to SAA in Connecticut for the 4th time since I've been working at Morse Auto. Our mission? To buy a Chevy Suburban for a customer who owns a surveying company, and buy a Honda CR-V for a new customer wanting a car update.

Buy a Suburban? "Oh my goodness, I don't know if there will be any available!" my boss says. LOL. "More like holy cow which one do we choose?" he continues.


There's 20 Auction lanes that sell 5,000 cars in about 4 hours!
Dozens of trailer-trucks to bring 'em here and then away.
Administrative wing.
Entry and exit lanes.
2004 Black Suburban and 2004 Black CR-V we bought. The Suburban sold new for $41,000, the CR-V for around $25,000. Tomorrow we will be selling the Suburban for $10,500 with our profit built in. Talk about depreciation!

The CR-V, meanwhile, will go out the door for around $15,000. Even with gas prices in the $4 range, that kind of price disparity means you will have to drive the 25 MPG CR-V well over 60k miles before it repays the initial extra cost with fuel savings over the 18 MPG Suburban.

Text Message Delete

I never thought I would have the material for a Job Tate grade post of this title, but I managed it tonight:

Audrey: so why are you growling at me?

me: cuz you are encouraging me to be a better person when i dont feel like it
Audrey: hahaha that is the best quote ever!

Apt pix