Paying my car off this month (and got new tires today)-one reason i'm in a good mood and willing to give these boards one more try...ready for a road trip come first nice weather-there's a nice little Taoist church in Santa Cruz I might visit...
well, the damn car company sent one more bill, for $28-damn interest-so paid that and now lets see if they send the title-these companies nickel and dime you to death-had one credit card company harass me (even calling for me at work, which they'd never done before) over $2! This, after i'd paid them off for several thousand dollars! Greedy so and so's...
So, did you ever get a car, Luke? I have a nice Subaru I'll sell you...
Yup, it's true. Still driving the old '88 station wagon, known interchangably as the "bomber" and the "tank"...and the "turd-mobile" for it's color (obviously this isn't the car that was shown on TS, but it's similar). Not in a big hurry to get a new car . . . but do email me with some specs on the Subaru of you get the chance...
Sorry I didn't answer this when I first saw it . . . I'm so used to people asking me in I got my new car (it's the No. 1 question I'm asked), it's almost a sort of "cliche question" now... Thankfully I don't find it annoying...
That's funny about the CC company, especially when you think that it probably cost them more to get the $2 than $2...
I'll never forget once when i was a kid my mom got a check from some company once for one cent! Not sure if she ever cashed it, and if she did she didnt spend any of it on me.
oh, and btw, they never did get the $2 from me-told them they could take me to court-the next mailing I got from them called the account good.
LOL... thats kinda like my dad. I moved him from Arkansas to live with me after his wife died. he got a bill from Verizon (cell phone) for six cents. We took it to the Verizon office and they really got a laugh out of it. Then they wrote it off. dang, six cents .. it prolly cost them fourty cents to process and send it. ** shakes head **
Thats the trouble with big corporations-they dont pay attention to the small things-money or worker-wise-they're interested in the dollar, but it's the small change, small details that'll break you if you dont pay attention...
We of course do this in everyday life as well. We think only big events are worth reacting to or commenting on, but it's the small inconveniences, small occurances that have a greater effect than we realize...thats why i've always liked diaries, journals and now blogs-the mundane everyday details of life ARE life...
speaking of blogs:
Kyle, this is the sentence of the year so far: 'We have a a punching bag held up by a string corded on a pulley tied to wire looped around a beam connected to the telephone pole'- in the house that Jack built? whew, that was fun to read. a workout for the eyes...
But it IS fun being upside down-I just learned to stand on my head after a lifetime of trying, and it gives a different viewpoint for sure...can do 3 pushups from this position as well, on a good day (which isnt very often)
Buddy talks about the "mundane things that are life". I immediately thought about the play, Our Town, by Thornton Wilder. It's one of my favorites. The theme is how people don't see that everyday, small things in life are important. And that those everyday, small things are part of something much larger---your life, your town, your world, your universe.
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So, did you ever get a car, Luke? I have a nice Subaru I'll sell you...
~Trinity
Sorry I didn't answer this when I first saw it . . . I'm so used to people asking me in I got my new car (it's the No. 1 question I'm asked), it's almost a sort of "cliche question" now... Thankfully I don't find it annoying...
That's funny about the CC company, especially when you think that it probably cost them more to get the $2 than $2...
oh, and btw, they never did get the $2 from me-told them they could take me to court-the next mailing I got from them called the account good.
We of course do this in everyday life as well. We think only big events are worth reacting to or commenting on, but it's the small inconveniences, small occurances that have a greater effect than we realize...thats why i've always liked diaries, journals and now blogs-the mundane everyday details of life ARE life...
speaking of blogs:
Kyle, this is the sentence of the year so far: 'We have a a punching bag held up by a string corded on a pulley tied to wire looped around a beam connected to the telephone pole'- in the house that Jack built? whew, that was fun to read. a workout for the eyes...
But it IS fun being upside down-I just learned to stand on my head after a lifetime of trying, and it gives a different viewpoint for sure...can do 3 pushups from this position as well, on a good day (which isnt very often)