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Two post ago I told you that I would have big news today, something new in my life.  I bought myself a new car.  I am actually leasing it, as I did my previous one.  My old car was a Chev Optra5, for you Americans it is the same car as a Suzuki Reno.  I now have a Chev Cobalt LS.  It is not much bigger than my Optra5 but I don’t mind, I like small cars.  I traded in the Optra5 5 months before my lease was up because the deal I got from the dealership I did not have to pay these 5 months. I also got $1000 for bringing it in.  My salesman told me this is because a lot of people had problems with the car.  I did not have any major problems with it.  What I did not like about the Optra5 was that for a small car it was damn hard on gas.  The Cobalt is supposed to be better on gas, hell it couldn’t be worst than what I had.

When I told friends and family that I was getting this Cobalt LS, everybody knew someone that knew someone that was related to someone that knew the cousin of someone that owns a Cobalt and they have all the problems in the world.  Well there is so many of these cars on the roads around here and I have heard of 5 people that had problems with the car, I think the odds are in my favour.  If I bought myself a lemon well I guess I’ll have to make lemonade.  That’s positive thinking for you, isn’t it?  I like the car and that is all that counts, right?

Last week I gave the dealership a deposit of $400 so they can keep the car for me.  When I was done signing what seemed to be a thousand documents, I was done so I left the dealership and five minutes later I realized that I did not get my deposit back.  I turned around and went back and got it.  I then drove to my mothers where I emptied the stuff I had in the Optra5 to pick it up.  I left and drove for half an hour when I realized that I had forgotten a book I was reading.  I turned around and went back and got the book.  The rest of my drive was uneventful.  I think my subconscious wanted me to drive the car because it was enjoying it self.

One of the options I got in my car is XM satellite radio.  I did not really want this option but to get all the other I wanted and not wait to order a new car I got it.  My brother told me that after the three month trial was over I would not be able to live without it.  I thought to myself I have an iPod I don’t really need XM satellite radio.  After driving for 2 hours I am hooked.  I have been listening to the comedians and been laughing the whole time I was driving and after laughing that long my stomach hurts.  So maybe this is a reason for not keeping XM satellite.

Friday evening when I was driving home from work, I got to a red light and in front of me was a Chrysler minivan and I could see the rear seat DVD player. The movie playing was Antz. The light turned green and the van sped off and I had a hard time keeping up. I wanted to watch the movie so I kept pace with the minivan. To be able to see the movie I was following the van dangerously close. If the driver would have slammed his breaks there would have been an accident. I think the driver was annoyed by my tailgating because he was weaving from one lane to another but I was keeping pace. This is the first time in my life that I was wishing for all red lights. They were almost all green, damn.

I have to tell you that reading lips of a computer generated cartoon character is very hard and doing it while driving a car at 80 km/hr just a few centimeters from a minivan makes it very, very, very hard. A new law should be passed: if a DVD player is installed in any vehicles the screen has to be at least 42″ and the sound track should be transmitted on FM for a radius of 200 meters. This would make driving a hell of a lot less dangerous. No more tailgating because of movie watching. I am sure that most accidents where a car runs into another car in the rear are caused by too small a screen and a good movie.

I did not tell you the worst part of the story yet. I got off of work at nine o’clock, 2100 hours for the military reading this. and I only got home at eleven thirty, 2300 hours (again for the military), because I had to see the end of the movie and then I had to turn around and drive back home. It was worth it, I like almost all movies with Woody Allen, even the ones we just hear his voice. To bad they did not go through a drive thru I could have ate something and drank a pop. I am also glad that I had enough gas in the car.

p.s. I want more readers from Europe so that is why I used metric measurements, except for the title. For you Americans and older Canadians 80 km/hr = 50 mi/hr and 200 meters = 656 feet. For everybody else 42″ = 107 cm.

What kind of idiot decides to write at least eight posts per month on two different blogs, and then commits it in writing in those same two blogs?  I am that idiot.  I admit it at the time that I decided to do all these posts I really thought it would be a piece of cake.  I am finding out that it is definitely not a piece of cake.  I have to try to entertain all of you for a few minutes a week and damn it is harder than it seems.

I have tried talking about music, about movies, about television.  I have given you a few recipes.  I have told you about surviving a “man” cold.  There were a few posts that I am sure made a few of you laugh.  I have even begged you to give blood.  I have spoke to you about the family members I have lost in the last seven months, there have been too many.  I have ranted and raved a few times.   I have written a few filler posts when I had nothing to write about.  A few times I have asked you readers to leave a comment, to almost no avail.  Thank you everyone that as left a comment, feed back is always welcome.

Now with all of that said, I have been thinking of cutting back to two posts a month per blog.  As I was writing this I have made my decision to what I was to do with my two blogs.  It is going to be business as usual, why should I change what I have been doing?  I have to smarten up and do what I have set out to do when I started all of this.  Now that I have re-affirmed my missions in blog postings, I have a secret to tell you all, this post started out as another filler post and it ended up being about talking myself into continuing writing.  I am glad that I did not know what to write about tonight because I am happy with what I have written.

Next week I will have a post either on Tuesday or Wednesday.  I have big news about something new in my life, so come on back and hopefully I’ll entertain you.

Breaking Bad on AMC is fascinating. I am enthralled by this new show from the cable network that brought us Mad Men. I have a hard time trying to categorize this show. The only thing I can really say about it is that it is dark, it has its funny, in a sick way, moments. It tackles a very serious subject, our “anti-hero” finds out that he has cancer and only has a short time to live. He is a chemistry teacher and works at a car wash to make ends meet. His son has cerebral palsy. He decides to make and sell cristal meth when, at his birthday party, he sees on the television money that was confiscated from a drug-bust that his brother in law has made during the day, his brother in law is a DEA agent. He decides to do this to generate cash for his family so that when he is gone they are financially secure. Everything goes downhill from there. It is the best show on television at the moment, don’t take my word for it watch it.

In other news Amy Winehouse has won an arm full of Grammies this weekend for he fine CD, Back to Black. I hope that she can straighten herself up so that she may have a long career. The WGA strike looks to be almost over so we will have new episodes of our favorite, and not so favorite, shows in the near future, April/May from every source I have read.

Tomorrow is that time again, I’ll be donating blood. I will ask you one more time to please donate. It is greatly appreciated by the people you’ll save. It will also be appreciated by the family of the people you save. It is very important that you give. What would happen if you need blood and if nobody donates and then you’re Screwed with a capitol S. Well I guess time is up for now.

Last Sunday would have been my fathers birthday.  We, the family, got together and went out for supper.  I am sure that Dad would have enjoyed the company but not the food, we had sushi.  He would have much preferred steak.

On Saturday February 2 my Aunt Helene passed away.  She had Lupus for over 15 years and it finally overcame her.  “Ma Tante” Helene was married to “Mon Oncle” Sylvain who had passed away in August a few weeks after Dad.  It has been a sad six months.  We still think of you.

If you recall a few weeks ago I promised myself to read at least half an hour a day.  I did not read for over a week because of the cold I had.  I did try but I could not concentrate enough to do it.  The last few days I decide to catch up to my daily quota and I am almost there.  As I am writing this I owe myself 2 hours of reading time.  I can’t do it tonight, I expect that I’ll be caught up by Saturday evening.  I haven’t read my half hour today yet.  I will and I’ll possibly read another 30 minutes.

That is it for this post, as you can see my heart is not really into it tonight sorry about that folks, I’ll have something better for you next time.