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Too much in one week

Friday before last I was driving down Pecos Road away from work and I looked down to see my car had just passed a little landmark. My reliable yet loathed Oldsmobile Alero had just reached 100,000 miles. “Good little car” I thought as I pulled out my phone and carefully snapped a picture. I pushed down Pecos and got on i10 towards Tempe. A little bit after the Warner Road exit I changed into the middle lane and just as I settled in the lane a huge grey truck to my left decided he too wanted in the middle lane. I swerved right and then left, became perpendicular to traffic and I clearly remember saying “Oh God, help.” I kid you not, those could have been my last words. If I had been t boned that would have been it for me. I really believe that I was protected… my luck just isn’t that good on its own. :)
I hit the center divider almost head on. The scrapes and paint would later show that my car’s front end almost crested the k-rail. I was tossed around a bit, but I had my seatbelt on and thankfully the airbags didn’t deploy. I was pretty shook up, I think three cops asked me if were sure I was ok even half an hour after it happened.

So the Alero was done. My insurance offered me a good amount for it. Truthfully it was more than I could have ever hoped to sell the thing for. I spent the last half of my week looking and found a nice car for a good price.

It’s a 2008 Dodge Avenger, low miles and a lot of great features. Even if it’s just another vanilla American used car it does at least look more aggressive than the Alero. I don’t buy into the “American car” myth, the parts on any car are just as likely to be made in Elkhorn as they are in Harbin. My car was assembled in Michigan though, which I like… that plant is scheduled to close sometime next year.
The car’s also got an AUX port for my iPod, that’s worth $12,000 by itself right?

I lost a friend this week. No one died, no one moved. Nothing was decided, nothing was changed. It seems things just came to their logical end. I cut ties and almost immediately felt lonely. It was a great friendship… a year and a half ago. It’s done now and I’d love to just get to a point where I really only remember the first two years I knew her. Before I screwed all this up.
I’ve really let her down, that’s by far the worst part.
Urban Outfitters announced last week that they would make available some Polaroid instant cameras in their stores. These are literally the last ones made… the first thing that came to my mind was how much I wanted to buy one for Andy. :/

Take it easy, I’m off for a nice drive in my new car. :)