According to my dad, Chrysler plans to match the the voucher amount that the federal government is issuing with the CARS program until the end of August. In other words, if I trade my truck in for a new Chrysler, I could get $9000 off, plus whatever scrap value ends up being. I'm getting really stoked about the idea of owning a new car ( Read more... )

Sitting in the front row in English class seems to cause problems, because the teacher has a habit of making a lot of unintentional puns. I caught at least four today and laughed each time, stopping the flow of the conversation while everyone else realizes what she said. The front row's really far up too, so it feels weird having so many people ( Read more... )

Just finished editing the first third of my Masters video, and it's coming along pretty well so far. I've really got a good feeling about this one. This could be my first good non-gimmick video ( Read more... )

Last night while my sister was out clubbing, her friend's car was broken into. Her wallet and my keys (which she'd borrowed) were stolen, among other things probably. So now we have only one key to my truck and no key to the included toolbox or spare tire. Fortunately it's only gonna cost us like thirty bucks or so to have the truck re-keyed, and ( Read more... )

For the past few nights I've been dreaming a lot about work for some reason. Usually it focuses on dealing with particularly difficult customers (or at least that's the memorable part of the dream), though these customers aren't any specific customers I've helped. Dreaming about work is annoying though ( Read more... )

I mentioned Thursday that my truck was not starting up again. Earlier today we tried to jumpstart it, thinking it might just be a dead battery. It turned out not to be the case. While my dad was trying to start it, the compressor started smoking like crazy, and shortly after he turned it off, it burned clear through the serpentine belt. Now I'm ( Read more... )

My truck wouldn't start this morning when I was about to head to work, but the weather was really nice, so I actually grabbed a bike from the backyard (fortunately there was one that worked) and bicycled about five miles to work. The ride was shorter than I'd expected; I was only half an hour late. I'm pretty worn out now, but I think I might try ( Read more... )

I keep forgetting that I'm not moving in a few months. Remembering that makes me sad ( Read more... )

Today was way busier than I was expecting it to be. First I had a dental appointment to fill one of my cavities (I actually didn't need a root canal for once!), and immediately afterward, I drove off to Sierra for a resume building workshop. Hopefully what I learned should make it easier to finish last semester's assignments now, because I hardly ( Read more... )

On my way to work Friday morning, my truck shut down about a block from my house. My dad swapped vehicles with me and waited for AAA to tow it to a repair shop. StreetTech finally got around to working on it today, and according to them, the coolant is leaking into the intake and messing things up. The price they quoted for them to fix it is ( Read more... )