To The Metal

My assistant was out yesterday, so after I was done with my work, I decided to play a little prank. His PC is a standard XP desktop, flush against the wall on his desk, wires neatly routed behind it.  He’s also a neat freak, so everything on his desk is where it needs to be. [...]

 1[a] Praise the LORD. [b]        Blessed is the man who fears the LORD,        who finds great delight in his commands.  2 His children will be mighty in the land;        the generation of the upright will be blessed.  3 Wealth and riches are in his house,        and his righteousness endures forever.  4 [...]

Dropped the Legacy off at Bill Kolb Subaru this morning after speaking with the service manager. I figured – big dealership – I’m going to get blown off. They gave me a loaner (gas swilling Tribeca – stereo was HORRENDOUS) – sent me on my way.  Back at work, phone rings… salesman says that they [...]

Going to keep track of the life of my Scooby here, starting with its first service appointment. As I mentioned in a previous post, the brakes on this car (2009 Legacy 2.5i -w- 18k miles) are just about shot.  No more than 5 minutes after leaving the dealer on Saturday afternoon, the brake pedal was [...]

So after checking out at least 10 cars on the lot, I decided to suck it up and extend the loan term so I could get int something that wasn’t beat.  I”ll say this – the inventory at Bill Kolb Jr Subaru is VAST, a lot of the cars though – various body issues, interior [...]

So I lost my credit card 9 days ago.  I tell my fiancee, she says ‘pray to St.Anthony every day to help you find your card.  If you haven’t found it after 9 days, you never will.’  On Monday,  day 6 – I call my credit card company and report the card lost.  Still, I [...]

So the salesperson I dealt with at Dawson called me back yesterday, apologized again for the deal going south.  I explained I didn’t blame him at all, he mentioned the car had sold 20 minutes after I left, was currently ‘waiting on financing’ – I mentioned just as passing conversation what my next offer would [...]

So after the rather crappy experience I had at Dawson Motors yesterday, I decided to expand my search for a Ford Fusion AWD from model year 2007, as well as give Subaru another try. Over the past 14 years that I have been driving, I’ve purchased 6 vehicles, 2 of them privately, and the other [...]

For the past several months I have been doing gobs of research on my next car. It has to be a sedan, have all wheel drive, great reliability, and be within a certain dollar amount so my payments are actually less on the new car than on my current. I tend to research big purchases, [...]

I tell you, nothing pisses me off more than those idiotic SOB’s who don’t pull over for an emergency vehicle. I’m on the way in today, I see a State Trooper, then I hear a siren. I look around and see an ambulance headed towards me. I’m already in the intersection, so once I clear [...]