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A few weeks ago, I successfully convinced a friend to switch to gmail. She was using her ISP’s email, and it had problems. ISPs limit space and tend to block random things (my old bellsouth account used to block my daily comics from comics.com - very irritating). Gmail, I told her, had no downside.

Grr. I have been having absurd issues with gmail this week, and I’m just about over it, not that I have much of a choice.

I’m about ready for a vacation.

I need a new car

I need a new car.

I’m currently driving a fourteen-year-old Subaru wagon. It was a pretty good car when I got it seven years ago; it was the archetypal “little old lady didn’t drive it much” car, but the “little old lady” in this case was my grandmother. At the time, the car was - obviously - seven years old, and it had just shy of forty thousand miles on it. Now that it’s twice that age, it’s carrying almost three times that many miles - about 116k.

And it’s breaking, too. In the last year, it got all new brakes to the tune of almost $1k, and now it needs some front end work for about the same amount … and soon, before it gets unsafe.

And it’s probably worth all of $500.

Unfortunately for me and my fifty-mile-round-trip commute, a new car just isn’t in the cards for me right now. Katie and I already have a new house with some new work getting done on it, and Katie has a new minivan (which, sadly, was needed way more than I need a new car now).

I just try not to think about it, but sometimes it’s hard not to.