Posted on 01/03/2008 6:35:58 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
I actually have thought of setting one up for Rose's story universe, but I want to run it on a Linux box, so it will have to wait until we can afford a new system.
Too bad you don't have a rain barrel.
I'm just sayin'...
Thanks. I felt kinda bad takin’ it when you weren’t around.
Heh... Water’s back on. It was a short lived crisis.
At least it’s back now!
Yay.
Now I hafta do laundry.
Windows, actually, tho it works on all the common OS-s. I highly, highly recommend it - I just got a friend access and with security enabled so hopefully my box isn’t open to everyone.
I believe you can migrate the wiki to other machines/systems and it takes two hours tops to set up so I’d go for it anyway.
It’s raining now. Nazty drizzle.
I stopped by the dealership. They have a purty red one that I could prolly afford. New. Has about thirty miles on it, I think. It’s a nice size, has all the options I want, and nothing I don’t.
But I’m still mentally stuck on that five year thing. A lot happens in five years. I could lose my job. I could move somewhere else. And if I have a relatively high car payment...I dunno. I don’t know if I can do it. I’m still stuck in the mentality of growing up where we didn’t *do* car payments or new cars. It just seems almost immoral to spend money like that. ;-) ‘Specially considering I don’t have savings to put down.
I’m still going to go drive one tomorrow, and I’m sure they’ll do the hard sell thing once I do. *sigh* But I didn’t sign anything.
For now, I’ve got a bad headache and nothing much to eat in the house, and laundry to do and I gotta get up by five thirty or six tomorrow.
You could win the lottery. You could be married with children(s). A meteor could fall on your head...
The only difference will be whether or not you're driving a dependable vehicle.
I have to be up by 5:30 or six and then drive to Omaha.
Do I win?
/sorry....
Get the car and then make a six month payment savings fund somewhere just for your peace of mind :) even if it takes a year to get those six months.
*snort*
This is all true.
I guess I just wonder how high is too high for a typical car payment. I honestly don’t know what most folks pay. The quote they gave me comes to about 13% of my post-taxes monthly income, which I *think* fits into the realm of the reasonable. It *should* squeeze into the budget without a problem, though it’ll be a shock to the system, no matter what.
Unless that budget changes.
*fret*
And since it’s a smaller car (I guess that’s the reason), it won’t cost much more to insure than I’m currently paying - I checked.
*fret*
I figure I’d pay any bonus checks towards the car...so I’d hopefully pay it off a bit early.
Okay, go ahead and fret and get it over with.
But we want to see car pictures by the end of the week.
Do I win?
Yeah, I think you win. ;-)
Okiedokes.... just so long as our 2J is *working* at the hospital and not there for other reasons. :)
I'll second that. Reliable transportation opens up lots of opportunities for employment and recreation. A new car like that should give you several years of low-maintenance use (but *do* get the regular maintenance). Nickel and diming an older car - $200 here, $400 there- can be a real budget killer unless you can do the automotive work yourself. So that's two (three?) less things to lose sleep about. And it's not like you're buying a Beamer or a Hummer or something ridiculous.
Ok - I’m looking at the Hyundai USA website. They have a calculator to estimate payments. Looks like the Accent 3-door is < $250 given nothing down and 11%. In my mind that’s a really reasonable payment and I can’t imagine you having to pay anything close to 11. I think rates are in the single digits still, but I haven’t bought a car in a while. If you feel you really must wait, at least wait until the next major holiday and catch a great sale....
I get to go to Omaha now. Yay.
Ugh.
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