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Tue, Jul 28, 2009

Cash for Clunkers

Posted at 7:22 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

My plan to take advantage of the Cash for Clunkers program has hit a snag.

On Friday I received a call from the Subaru dealership: "We're in the program. Come in and talk."

Yesterday I sent them an email, to make an appointment for this evening.

Today I received an email: "Sorry, but we have left the program."

I tried calling the other local Subaru dealer. Their website said they were in the program but on the phone, they said the program is already running out of money, but if I want to buy one of the cars on thier lot, not necessarily with the features I want, they might be able to make me a deal. I am convinced the salesman was trying to pull some kind of scam: it seems very unlikely that a 1 billion dollar program is running out of funds 2 business days after it officially took effect.

I guess I need to spend some time looking at the specs of other brands of small SUVs and crossovers. The Honda CRV and Toyota RAV-4 are apparently the closest competitors to the Forester, but slightly more expensive and with slightly different features.

Grr.

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Still Not Menopausal

Posted at 7:37 am MDT to Miscellaneous

Yesterday I found out why I had a really vicious headache Sunday evening and a frenzied burst of reorganizing the house and yard for a few days before that.

Drat. That makes twice in less than 3 months, after a 19 month gap.

If age at menopause really predicts life expectancy, I'm going to need to plan my finances for a looong retirement.

At least I seem to be mostly missing out on my usual hellacious cramps this time around.

And the housecleaning thing is at least a usful PMS symptom. I have always thought that one reason bachelor pads are stereotypically messy is that guys don't get hit by periodic bursts of "Gah! this place needs to be reorganized! Now!!!" Sometimes the manifestations are pretty odd, though. Hard drive defragging as a PMS symptom (which I have engaged in in the past) is really peculiar when you think about it: not something one would expect to have a evolutionary basis.

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