Car Shopping

Ok so for this weeks FFY we have to rewind just a bit to last week… well wait hold on it starts a little bit before that but either way here we go… so while driving back and forth to work I notice that Dimitri is over heating a lot, but I cant tell if it is actually happening or if it is the gauge or something so I kind of ignore it. (duh that's what you do to problems) so anyways I final bring it into the shop after dad tells me that when I notice this happening to get out and feel the radiator and see if it is hot or cold... Pretty simple I can do that. So after driving my 45 minute commute to Plymouth I get out while the car is running and feel the radiator… its ice cold… strange the gauge said it should be on fire right now. So the next day I took it into the garage to check out to see if I need a new radiator or what. Well what does it figure that my problem is the "or what"… which translates into a blown (or about to blow head gasket) which is pretty damn expensive and for the year of the car it's not worth it, so the garage tells me to junk it. Any who knows me knows that I will never just junk a perfectly running car especially not in the summer! It's freaking demo season! So I just got my self a good running derby car, SWEET!

Now the only problem is I need to find a new car…. I hate car shopping. It sucks you can never find what you really want and you always settle fro something that you can just "deal" with. And of course it happens in the beginning of summer when I have no money. So now for the past three weeks I have been driving mom's car to work and not spending any money except to put gas in the car to get me to work. Well I found a car that I really want. It's a '95 Pontiac Grand Am, two doors, duel exhaust, black with a sun roof and only 121,000 miles. Hey that is pretty sweet! The only problem is that the junk yard that is selling it is trying to get a new title for it so it's going to be a while before they can actually sell it. So I have left many messages and stopped in every other day or so to check up on the status of the title process, and they said that it should be about $750 - $800 and that's not really that bad and ill have that by next week or so. So I haven't heard back from then yet but I found out that there is another guy interested in it as well but I think he wants it for parts or something cause he was already driving a grand am, and that would suck cause it's a real nice car to part it out would be a shame. So I am hopelessly set on getting this car because it is what I really wanted last time I was car shopping and now I found it and it is within my grasp. But I really just want to say FUCK YOU to the whole car shopping process, it sucks and I hate it and a possible future FUCK YOU to the person that buys the Grand Am before I can.

Pirates

so tonight was the premier of the pirate master, a new reality TV show on which people live out the lives of pirates on the open seas one real life ship as pirates would have done. so for the first adventure for the pirates there is of course buried treasure and a map to follow, so they all get split into two teams; as is the case of any "survivor" type show, and off they go following the map and some clues. so they get to the first clue and there is a lock and three keys and no one can figure out how to open it, one guy finally says its a puzzle and the there is a sequence to it and bam he gets it open and they are now in the lead and off on the next part, to find the treasure! so off they go, they set up a booby trap to slow the other team down and are at the final location, and no one can figure out where the chest is hidden in the water and there is a clue of crocodiles or something like that, so the same guy who figure out the lock says to him self... hmm crocs live under mangroves trees so ill check under the mangrove trees, he goes under and bam comes up with the chest. YARR! So now we are all back on the boat and there is $40,000 in pirate gold in the chest, now they need to pick a captain... hmm who should it be? The smart guy who got us through the adventure of the hunky guy who did nothing... that's right the hunky guy and boy is the other guy pissed! And now the new captain has to decide whether to split the gold equally amongst every one or take 50% for him self and divide the rest and that's what he does. So now the guy who got that team through the challenges has a measly $2000 for doing everything, he is pissed through the roof! So now the new captain has a real nice room with luxuries and a cool hat and every one else still sucks. so the next night is a meeting of where 3 people get "the black spot" which means the captain wants them off the boat, so our pissed off smart guy, a funny guy with a beard and a random girl (honestly she was chosen randomly!) have a black spot, sot hey all get to plead with the crew in why they shouldn't leave, well our smart guy is smart he steals the compasses cause a ship is no good with out direction every one knows that! the captain says he doesn't need a compass he can tell where north is by the sun and the big dipper, and by sticking a stick in the mud waiting a half hour and figuring how much the shadow has moved blah blah blah... well every one votes and what do you know THE SMART GUY GETS VOTES OFF!!! So now the ship has no compasses! And the guy who did everything right is off on a tiny little raft with $2000 and some compasses for all of his hard work...

So does this make any sense? Why would you get ride of the guy who is a major help aboard the ship in figuring out puzzles and shit? He wasn't asking to be captain but to get rid of the captain who took half of the treasure that he didn't find and to keep him and the compasses which he stole because it's a pirate adventure and that's what pirates do. well I am quite pissed about the turn of event on that ship and I cant wait to watch it again next week and from here on out to see if my smart pirate guy ever does return; maybe on a deserted island or on a ship of his own? Who know but what I do know is that the crew of that ship who all voted to keep the captain deserve a BIG FUCK YOU!