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Danny....
Four jobs you have had in your life:
1. Engineer
2. Printing Press Operator
3. Air Force Maintainer
4. Mazzios Pizza cook
Four movies you would watch over and over:
1. The Jerk
2. Fletch
3. Blazing Saddles
4. Tommy Boy
Four places you have lived:
1. Fort Worth
2. Tulsa
3. Biloxi
4. Altus
Four TV shows you love to watch:
1. Scrubs
2. Las Vegas
3. Earl
4. CSI
Four places you have been on vacation:
1. Disney World
2. Las Vegas
3. Madison, Alabama (sister & NASA)
4. Hawaii
Four websites you visit often:
1.
www.woot.com2.
www.twit.tv3.
www.live.com4.
www.digg.comFour of your favorite foods:
1. Pizza
2. Steak
3. Mexican
4. Italian (not Pizza)
Four places you would rather be right now:
1. Las Vegas
2. Hawaii
3. Disney
4. Anywhere with wife and kids
Buying cars
I hate buying cars. You always feel like your getting ripped off, even when you do all the research in the world. I can't think of another item that we purchase that costs so much and is worth so little just a few years down the road. In fact its worth drops the moment that first wheel leaves the lot. I actually wonder if the worth drops before the pen is lifted from the gigantic loan you just took out to pay for such a car.
Don't you love hearing Bill Gates analogy of cars and computers? I don't either. While it's true I use a computer far more than I do a car, if it crashes no one dies. I know it may feel like it, but they don't. I actually expect to buy a new computer every few years to keep up with technology. This is not how I feel about cars. I want to drive them into the ground. Before buying our last two cars our previous cars had 170,000 and 145,000 miles on them. I still have the later car and continue to drive it some. Unfortunately, depending on the nature of the break-down, I now consider a car a throw-away similar to a computer. Our Explorer spawned transmission troubles a couple of years ago just before we got the van. We spent over $3000 to get the transmission repaired. We barely got it home before the transmission flaked out again. I know we should have taken it back. Instead I asked my wife to meet me at the dealer. If we were lucky the transmission would be flakey as they drove it to the back of the lots for valuation. It didn't, we got a decent price for it and traded it in on the van.
You know our parents paid less for their houses than we do for our cars and I am not talking about buying a Hummer, just a regular new car.
Does it seem backward?
To be honest I don't think Crowley Church of Christ meant it this way but this is how it reads. I hope they reverse it. I' ve always included their billboard saying in my right menu-bar because they are always quirky. If this keeps up I may have to replace them.
Just down the road is a bit better.
