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Help homeowners, FDIC chief says
This morning, I woke to the headline on cnn.com, "Help homeowners, FDIC chief says." Here's a novel thought: No. Don't help homeowners ( Read more... ) -
StubHub disappointment; Quel surprise!
So after being shut out of the ticket lottery and shut out of the TicketMaster public on-sale, I resorted to StubHub in an effort to purchase seats for the first Phish reunion concert. I'm a grown-up now, and I understand how free markets work, and at the price listed on StubHub when I bought, I was willing to pay the premium to see the show. ( Read more... ) -
The SPEED3 goes sailing.
So redherring and I went sailing today. This was significant because it was the SPEED3's first towing endeavor. I got the hitch onto it last Friday evening. (quite easy compared to the Civic trailer hitch ordeal.) I had been nervous to tow with it, but it was all for naught. The SPEED3 towed the boat as if it weren't even there. The wide low-profile ( Read more... ) -
Buying the MazdaSPEED3
Well, as unlikely as it might seem after yesterday's entry, Monroeville Mazda finally saw the wisdom of my numbers and came all the way up to meet me. I couldn't bring myself to be the TOTAL asshole and point out to them that I ended up buying the car from them for exactly, to the dollar, what I said I would within the first five minutes of ( Read more... ) -
Test Driving the MazdaSPEED3
So I test-drove the MazdaSPEED3 today. And mutually harangued the dealer for two and a half hours for the privilege. It was exhausting ( Read more... ) -
Trapeze Monkey
So today we finally got redherring out on the trapeze. At first she was nervous, but grew more comfortable as the day wore on and by the time we were getting ready to head home, she was scampering up and down the rail to level out the boat like a pro, which is a big help. It was a good day to learn too; just windy enough to get out, with gusts, but not so ( Read more... ) -
First Pitchpole.
So Dirk and Cammie came up to help me work some kinks out of the rig (with extra hands) and to sail for the day. We got rid of the bogus extra trap rig, and rigged the remaining single trap rig in such a way as to be usable. Cammie got out on the wire a couple of times. We lubed up the rudder cams and installed the new fancy tiller that redherring got for ( Read more... )
