Staying up Late
It’s way super mega late for me. Quarter to three in the morning. I don’t even stay up this late on the weekends. I got started reading an a fun novel and couldn’t stop, and now here I am.
News flash update time (flash is probably not right this news is days old but that’s just semantics). On Sunday morning I finally took a few pictures of the old Ford Taurus and put the thing up on craigslist.com. I only asked for $200 since it had some problems (besides the rust and noise) and I really only just wanted it gone. The listing went up around 11:45. By 4:30 in the afternoon the car was gone and I had my asking price in cash. Yay for CL and yay for no longer having that car.
A quick summary for those not in the know, if there are any. I bought the Taurus in the summer of 2001 for $600. It had about 180,000 miles on it (give or take), squeaked, had the beginnings of rust along the door bottoms but otherwise a good looking paint job, and ran great. Five years later it had 210,000 miles on it, I had put about $600 into repairs (not including oil changes and the like), and the rust and paint were worse. It still ran great, it just started to smoke and smell of burning rubber after about 30 minutes. Overall I think still qualifies as one of the best purchases I ever made.
Other things that are happening include me flying to Pittsburgh this weekend for the AWEA conference, a somewhat slow but pleasant reorganizing of my finances (trying to dump credit except for emergencies and the really big things like cars and houses), and my recently constructed darkroom. The darkroom is sort of crude but it works well. I’m going to get my hands on 4×6 paper and really go nuts, I think. 8×10 is great but once you print 20 or 30 of them you start to think of what to do with them. With 4×6 I can put them in albums more easily.
I also went to the first rodeo of my life last Friday (or if that’s not true at least the first that I can remember). Now if that seems lame to you I should mention that I went to the rodeo with four girls. I need to make more opportunities to do things with girls, as it is a welcome change. They are rather more pleasant to look at than boys.
steve :: May.31.2006 :: Kansas City, Photography :: 5 Comments »
GOLD
steve i will return COTI status once the powers that be deem sb.c worthy again, i guess.
silver
bronze fts
girls are awesome.
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