Odd day at work. We're upgrading our network, I guess, and switching over to a new server for back-ups, so most of the day was spent backing up files to get them off the network. While driving to Microcenter to buy PCI cards for PC users amongst us, I realized I'm going with the Soul. Just costs too much to upgrade the Fit to what I want, the Soul has a better warranty, and it has 2.9% financing. We'll need to upgrade Tieraney's Matrix within a couple of years, and that's the family car. That's the one we take to Ashland and on trips. I just need one to get me to and from work, and the Soul will do just for that. It has decent gas mileage, excellent safety features, and a kick ass stereo system. I won't be able to push it for another 11 years like my Civic, but within 5 to 7, hopefully I'll be at a place financially where I can trade it in for another Civic.
After I decided this, I took the test drive. Decent enough. It actually felt more natural to me than the Fit, mainly because the clutch behaved more like my Civic. The fit, I kept revving to high. Did better on the Soul. Now, I just need to secure that 2.9% financing, which shouldn't be a problem. Despite the debt and the horrors of two mortgages, I've still got outstanding credit. We'll find out soon enough. If everything goes well at the house tomorrow and financing comes through, I'll have a new car this weekend.
Pass over the middle is caught at first down marker, but the receiver is quickly dropped.
Official measurement.
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Car names are idiotic.
ReplyDeleteIt's more similar than not to a fast food gimmick, where, say, Wendy's will call a hamburger "extra tasty" and I will deliberately not order that hamburger because of the name. Or more clearly it's like this - the word "biggie" as in "I'll have a biggie fries" has never come out of my mouth. That's not offense at the size of the fries, that's my trying to have some language dignity.
Goddamn cars, the names are infantilizing, and makes one think that if the car manufacturers believe they will sell more cars by calling them "Soul" then what are they implicitly saying about us?
I went to my town's brand new sparkling public library yesterday afternoon. My lady friend had yesterday off and my class ended at noon. We had a library date. Not only that, we were extra excited about it. I've found someone who gets extra excited about the new public library.
That's a good result for me.
Life drops one underneath my cover 2 zone for what looks like an 8 yard reception - but I rattle the receiver with a bone jarring hit. That's an incomplete pass giving Life 3rd and 10 from its own 20.