Everything was approved on my car, so I am just waiting for them to
finish registering, inspecting, cleaning, and installing the lojack in
the car… I wanted lojack cuz Comm Ave isn’t exactly Hopatcong, and it
will also give me a good discount on my theft insurance… So I guess I
will pick it up this afternoon.
While it is true that I was shopping for a Mini, the sudden demise of
Maude changed the game a bit. I bought a 2003 Hyundai Elantra with 10k
miles on it… It is a very nice car, and is obviously less expensive
than the Mini.
I will keep this car for a few years and then get the Mini. It is a
good car, and will be a fantastic replacement for Maude.
Maude’s water pump died and sheared the timing belt, which ended up
being a 615-750 dollar repair on a car worth 1700-1800 bucks. Knowing
that the car would need additional work in the near future, it simply
wasn’t worth it. I borrowed ’s new ride and
went down to settle up with the garage, sign over the pink slip, and get
the plates and other stuff back.
So after I hear back this week about the drug test and physical, and
am a bit more sure about my job, I will go try to get my mini
cooper.
Whoever owned the 802.11b Access Point we were using turned on WEP,
so we are once again without any real internet access. I always have my
Hiptop, though, so I’m not completely cut off… :)
Tonight at midnight we are heading out to the Coolidge to see “Wet Hot American
Summer” for a special Sunday Night Film Club outing (tomorrow is the
Oscars, so we won’t be having a usual meeting). I love this movie, so
the opportunity to see it on the big screen is too good to pass up.
I still haven’t heard how much it will cost to fix Maude. The garage is allegedly looking at the car this morning, so hopefully I will be able to make a decision regarding my automobile situation in the next 24 hours. I went to the Mini dealer on Tuesday and got all the details regarding a new one of those. They have (or, at least they had, it might be gone by now) a Mini that was pretty close to what I would order given the time, the only real thing I didn’t like about it was the black roof and the leather seats, but if I can’t wait two months I’ll take what I can get.
But, ideally, I hope to get Maude running again and be able to wait a few months before buying the Mini. I’d like to put money down towards it, and I’d also like to order exactly the car I want. But I don’t have *any* money right now, so I’d have to hope my parents could help me. But even if they were in the position to help me, I think that in my mind there is some cost threshold that if the repair violates I’d probably try and get the new car anyway.
Wanna hear something awesome?!?!?!?!? Connecticut fucked me again! My car broke down just past Hartford on the way to Boston today. I called AAA, and about an hour later a State Trooper stopped by, I told him I was waiting for AAA, he called the AAA tow affiliate for the area and they had never been called. The cop fixed this post haste and had a tow truck there in like 15 minutes.
So my car is sitting in Tolland (sound like a NJ town.. :P) at Tolland Citgo, which ever-so-luckily happens to be a U-Haul place. So I left Maude with them to get assessed tomorrow and I rented a one-way U-Haul (with the mega-help from Mom and Dad!) and continued on to Boston. I arrived at around 6:30p or so, and called to help me bring the stuff up to the apartment. I parked the U-Haul on the street, but I had to park it in a residential spot, since there were no spots big enough anywhere else. Hopefully I don’t get a parking ticket, but whatever. I have the U-Haul until 4:30ish, so I decided I am actually going to take it to my physical and drug test tomorrow. I am then going to visit the Mini dealer to see if they will lease me one with no down payment and maxed credit cards. It’s possible that Maude just needs a fuel filter/fuel line/fuel pump, since the engine just cut-out without much event (it wasn’t overheating, it wasn’t low on oil, it kept cranking after it died), but who knows.
I am mostly settled here, Corinna helped by having some Virgil’s Root Beer ready for my arrival. I didn’t really bring much stuff, so it wasn’t hard to settle. :P I went for a walk tonight to deposit something in the bank, and on the way back I almost got splatted by a Benz. I flipped the guy off and looked really angry, as I do so well, but something different from the other 300,000 times I have almost been trucked in Boston happened tonight. The guy rolled down his window, and prepared to get into a screaming match, my posture prepared for war. But the guy just apologized. It was really nice, actually… It made me feel alot better after this really shitty day.
I have a bunch of stuff in the car already (thanks to my parents assistance last night), and I have the last load of stuff ready to go. I will hopefully be on the highway by noon and in Boston by 5pm. More updates later.