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The Once and Future Eddies
Jul. 21st, 2005 12:45 pmI am exhausted. All I ask of life right now is to sleep for a week; what I'm going to get is to have to cram a week's worth of things to do into the next day and a half because I've been too distracted with the car stuff to deal with it.
As for said car stuff, buying an automobile over state lines with a nonfunctioning current car is a nightmare. Just gotta say that. Maybe Eddie II will be traded in *before* major pieces of machinery fail. Maybe. Still, I'm working through the crap as fast as possible. The Saturn dealer wouldn't give me anything on the old Eddie on account of its negative blue book value and my not buying a replacement there, but did concede that it could stay on their lot for pickup by a charity without storage fees if I contacted them right away. I called the charity right in front of him and left them with copies of the title signed over to it. (They want me to mail the title to them. This makes me nervous, but there's a FedEx place close to work according to the Internet. I'm going there after work.)
This just leaves me needing to take the new car through a state inspection and waiting for the title to come in the mail from PA; then I take inspection cert & title to the DMV and slap my old plates on it, creating Eddie II. (The name comes from the plate, y'see.) I'll schedule the inspection for next week.
Tuesday night I looked at my parent's dealership online, picked 5 cars to look at, and printed their carfax reports. Yesterday my parents picked me up and drove me there, where I test drove cars #1 & 2 on the list and looked at 3. In the long run, I went with my initial first choice; the Outback has more space, but the Forester is zippier.
Eddie II is a 2001 Forester ( all the car babble under cut. )
Only thing is, I was so busy playing with the CD and tape players - whee, I can load 'em both and switch between 'em! - that I didn't realize until I got in today that Jimmy Doohan had died and that London had been bombed again. I think I need to program a news channel into my radio setup and hit it every hour or so.
Had I known about this, I could have gotten a new bumper sticker at Shore Leave; I'll wait until Bouchercon now. But I have my Muppet Laps and Hogwarts parking passes up, that's something.
Anybody wanna guess what Dr. Demento song has been stuck in my head since this morning?
As for said car stuff, buying an automobile over state lines with a nonfunctioning current car is a nightmare. Just gotta say that. Maybe Eddie II will be traded in *before* major pieces of machinery fail. Maybe. Still, I'm working through the crap as fast as possible. The Saturn dealer wouldn't give me anything on the old Eddie on account of its negative blue book value and my not buying a replacement there, but did concede that it could stay on their lot for pickup by a charity without storage fees if I contacted them right away. I called the charity right in front of him and left them with copies of the title signed over to it. (They want me to mail the title to them. This makes me nervous, but there's a FedEx place close to work according to the Internet. I'm going there after work.)
This just leaves me needing to take the new car through a state inspection and waiting for the title to come in the mail from PA; then I take inspection cert & title to the DMV and slap my old plates on it, creating Eddie II. (The name comes from the plate, y'see.) I'll schedule the inspection for next week.
Tuesday night I looked at my parent's dealership online, picked 5 cars to look at, and printed their carfax reports. Yesterday my parents picked me up and drove me there, where I test drove cars #1 & 2 on the list and looked at 3. In the long run, I went with my initial first choice; the Outback has more space, but the Forester is zippier.
Eddie II is a 2001 Forester ( all the car babble under cut. )
Only thing is, I was so busy playing with the CD and tape players - whee, I can load 'em both and switch between 'em! - that I didn't realize until I got in today that Jimmy Doohan had died and that London had been bombed again. I think I need to program a news channel into my radio setup and hit it every hour or so.
Had I known about this, I could have gotten a new bumper sticker at Shore Leave; I'll wait until Bouchercon now. But I have my Muppet Laps and Hogwarts parking passes up, that's something.
Anybody wanna guess what Dr. Demento song has been stuck in my head since this morning?
