Way more exciting than condo shopping
So I’m up to the point where I’m actualy doing test drives. I’m doing the Legacy GT tonight and next time I get a chance it’s out to Sahara to do the TL and Mazdaspeed6. I don’t like car sales people. Not only are they pushy, arrogant, soulless sales drones, they also don’t take any pride in their work. They dont know their own vehicles not to mention the specs on competing vehicle to their fleet. I’ve had a Nissan sales guy tell me a curb weight for the 350Z that rivaled small tanks. I had a Dodge guy tell me that the limited edition seats in an SRT-4 came in all the SRT-4′s. Tonight the guy at Mazda told me an incorrect engine size, an incorrect horsepower and an icorrect wheel size. I have just come to accept this as standard practice. Imagine my surprise when I went to Findlay Subaru and talked to Jimmy, the Internet Sales manager. He was a walking Subaru encyclopedia. He knew everything about the Legacy and everything else on his lot ALONG WITH specs for competing vehicles. He didn’t push me, he didn’t try to dazzle me with stuff on the car I didn’t care about. He actualy turned the Nav system off because it was distracting and he knew I could care less about it. We talked safety, comfort and performance. And he never once told me something I knew to be untrue. If you’re looking at a Subaru go talk to Jimmy. I really wish I could buy the car from him but I think the Legacy is just a little too tight. We’ll see when I test the other 2.
Does anyone know where they keep drain care products?
So I’m at Home Despot to get some hyper uber mondo drain cleaner. The other cleaners I’ve tried have been weak and ineffectual. Of course there is nary an orange vest to be found so I am left to my own devices. I wish I had a map. I wandered the store for about half an hour cursing the staffing practices of the Depot. I wandered past the display you see in the picture half a dozen times before I went down the aisle I am standing in now, turned around and there it was. Right between the plungers and the glue. It’s not my proudest moment.
I’m going to go live in a box, boxes have broadband…right?
So I started thinking about getting a condo and I have to talk to the Manhattan condo people later on today but I found some pricing information which tells me I’m probably wasting my time. I just know this whole process is going to suck. There has to be a better way that this could be done. Not that anyone’s found it yet, there should just be a better way.
Tv tv tv
On this long Thanksgiving weekend I am largely doing nothing. It’s 4 days long and I am going to waste those 4 days to the extent of my ability. I’m not going to work on work. I will only touch a computer for useless and frivolous activities. I’ve downloaded a bunch of TV shows and I’m going to sit and veg as I haven’t in quite some time. I feel the need for some serious relaxation and I’m going to take myself up on it and fulfil that need. Yesterday I watched “Green Wing” which is a UK take on the show “Scrubs”, which is what I’m watching today.
The road to Mandalay
I went to the House of Blues with Hawkins and MIke to watch Henry Rollins Spoken word. It was amazing. I highly recommend the show if you are at all inclined to see that sort of thing. It was 2 and a half hours long which was about an hour longer than I was thinking it was going to be. The funniest part about the show is that we ended up with 3 extra tickets (I won’t get into why, if you want the story visit geeeek in the links section) so we were trying to discreetly get rid of them before the show. The problem being everyone we asked already had tickets and were also trying to get rid of them. One lady gave up and just left her tickets so then we had 5. Hawkins actualy pawned those 2 off on someone for free, the only problem being those people were my parents age and had no idea what they were getting into. The only problem with a 2.5 hour show at the HoB is that we were standing the whole time so by the time it was over I needed to sit, so we found the sports book which is when I remembered to take the 606 picture.
Burt Reynolds, he ain’t
It’s Thanksgiving at Ma’s house and I have had so much turkey, stuffing and potatoes I may burst. We had lots of other kinds of food too but what’s the point? I have very specific ideas of what Thanksgiving dinner is and everything else is just in the way of the real food. It was an excellent Thanksgiving as always, Ma’s a good cook even though she consistently denies it. As to what Matt’s doing…I can’t explain him and have long ago stopped trying. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Look what we found…
Not Manduh, we always know where she is. I am speaking of Renee, behind her. When going out to eat I don’t have monumental requirements, I mostly just hope for indifferent competence in the wait staff. Sometimes though you hit gold and tonight at Claim Jumpers was one of those nights. Renee and her minions were above all quite competent in their service but she was something special. It took Matt and I like 10 minutes to place our order due to us being our goofy selves and she took it in stride. Then she called Manduh a lesbian and I just about wet my pants. If you want a good dinner experience ask for Renee, show her some personality and she’ll respond in kind. But no stalking her or I’m gonna be in trouble.
