I’m late on this post. So much for trying to get
these posted on Monday or Tuesday. I must say, though, that this weather
is doing almost nothing positive for me. The walk in to work last
Thursday was very pleasant, but since that time
forth it has been naught but infuriating. A wonderful warm spell is
ruined by cold rain, wind is whipping around us on days when it isn’t
too cold or there isn’t some form of rain or snow, ruining those other
wise pleasant enough days, and then everything
is freezing. There is so much ice on the sidewalks, and I simply cannot
run to work with it all underfoot. It is slippery enough for just
walking around. I was afraid of tearing my knee apart today. I tell ya,
it’s no good.I constantly think this is similar to the British Isles (or a box of chocolates); you never know what you're gonna get.
Good thing we had football practice indoors. It was
a ton of fun, too. We had a series of position drills for 2 hours on
Saturday night. I learned a bit about the offensive playbook, and got to
run out at wide receiver, inside at the slot
receiver, as well as playing halfback and full back. I got to do some
runs up the gut, but most of what we ran was the passing game. On one
play, our QB threw a little higher than he intended and it bounced off
our tight ends hands, but I cut underneath my
route and caught it on the deflection behind coverage. On another play,
I was lined up out wide against press coverage and our veteran running
back dropped into the QB position (WILDCAT!!!) and took the snap. I beat
the press, got deep on a skinny post, and
the pass went wide to the left sideline, and was underthrown, I cut
back to get underneath it, out jumped the safety, and snagged the ball
out of the air and took it all the way. Those were my really good plays.
I did mess up a few times (one wrong route,
and one false start), but overall I did better than I was expecting of
myself.
Now to the topic that is consuming the most of my
thought/time at the present; I am looking at buying a car. I had been
looking before, but kinda gave up a little bit. Now I am back in the
race. There is an old Subaru I’m looking at, but
online prices range from 2700 to 900, and he’s asking 2500 for it, but
willing to settle for 2000. If it was a dealer, I would go for the 2000,
but seeing as he is simply selling it from his driveway, I am
skeptical. And he hasn’t owned it long, so what are
the problems with it? Bleah… so I started looking at dealers. I found a
nice 2006 Impala with under 100k miles for 8500. That is pretty good,
and depending on the financing I could get it for just over 100/mo in
payments. But then there is insurance, and taxes,
and gas, and maintenance, and this, and that, and blah, and bleah. So
how much would it actually cost to own? If I wasn’t going back to school
in the fall, I would get the Impala, but I think the Subaru handles
what I need right now. Plus, the Subaru is a
manual, which I absolutely love, and the Impala is an automatic
transmission, which I find somewhat boring. There is also a Cadillac CTS
for sale that would only cost about 150/mo, which is really nice. Or I
could go for an old Saab for 100/mo… or there’s
the Subaru…
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