Just some old JBL speakers I won on eBay Thurs night –
They’ll require a trip north to pick them up, then wood restoration
and adding a high tweeter to make them like the 3 ways on the right
but from what I’ve heard, it will be quite a sweet investment!
‘Bigotry Conquers All,’ Gay Rights Groups Say of U.S. Vote at UN
by Abid Aslam
from
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0130-07.htm
Published on Monday, January 30, 2006
WASHINGTON – The governments of the United States and Iran–part of President George W. Bush’s ”axis of evil” and his current nuclear bete noire–demonstrated rare unity of cause this past week when Washington backed a Tehran initiative to deny UN access to advocates of sexual minorities’ rights.
No more sneaky downloads via bit-Torrent … soon you’ll be able to get your weekly fix of the (new version of the classic) British Science Fiction show on the SciFi Channel. Of course, they’ll start with the shows from last year (so called “season One”, but considering the original show ran from the 60s through the late 80’s with a TV movie in the mid 90’s, its really season 27 (See
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/SciFi/DrWho/episodes.html).
Be sure to check the BBC announcement at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/
The headline on the WashingtonPost website today says
“ GM Plans to Lower Prices on Most Vehicles“
“General Motors Corp., the world’s biggest automaker, said Tuesday that it will lower the prices on 57 of its 76 models in North America in an effort to boost its sliding market share and wean buyers off expensive incentives.”
(quote from AP News on the WaPo site).
Of course – that didn’t help me. I WANTED to buy GM. After my car was stolen in November I was in the market for a new small wagon. I’d seen pictures of the Chevy HHR and I’d heard that GM had really improved since the bad cars they churned out in the 70s (Vega, Monza, etc) .. I wanted to give them a fair chance – so I went to Jim McKay Chevrolet to test drive a new HHR with the bigger 2.4l 4 cyl.
It had good pickup – but it felt claustrophobic – visibility seemed poor and it felt very plasticky.
The A pillars were too thick and hard to see around, the rearview mirror was in the way – the windshield seemed too low – it just didn’t seem like a comfortable car to me. It didn’t feel like a car I would still enjoy driving in 10 years – or even in 2 years. The “red Tag sale” promotional discount of $1500 or whatever it was didn’t matter if I didn’t like the car.
Latest updates –
We were scheduled to meet “the owner” on Tuesday 12/20 at 3PM, but he’d emailed us late Monday – due to An Emergency he needed to reschedule from Tues Weds 3PM. He arrived at 3:40 …
He was eager to sort out the bathroom problems, to have his guys come in and make it right, but after the last two fiascos, Emma and I had vowed to his laborers wouldn’t work in our house ever again. We walked upstairs and looked at the bathroom, and pointed out some of our problems, all of which he tried to minimize or dismiss.
He said his main guy never did work like that, even as we sat in the living room with the the butchered vanity on display (see cat picture in previous post). He said that wasn’t a problem, because the back wouldn’t been seen once it was installed. We mentioned how his man even took a chop out of the back of the drawer, but he just wasn’t dealing with the shoddy worksmanship.
We had sent him email explaining that we wanted half of our money back ($3k of the over $6 we have paid so far) to resolve the contract, he offered to give us $1500 of our money back, and we settled on a refund ($2500) …
We agreed that the contract has ended and we want nothing more from him – and he left. Then I rushed off to cash the check immediately, just in case …
I guess I’m going to have to learn how to do all this work myself now … sigh …
We are having our bathroom remodeled, so, I opened the carton for the recently delivered but not-yet-installed vanity in the living room, and our cat, Dolly Lama Diva, decided it was just perfect for her to explore.
I think she wants to be a show cat!
(Apologies for the title – we watched the Bob Fosse biopic “All That Jazz” again last weekend)
While installing a vanity yesterday, our man forgot to put the feet on it (even after Emma mentioned he’d need to screw on the legs before installing it). It was too low to lineup with the pipes – so he hacked it the back of the unit to MAKE IT work …
…what craftsmanship!! What a tool!
Yep – my poor car was stolen.
The police found the car, its been recovered (and towed to a Honda dealer)…
The thieves stripped it …!
I originally bought the 2000 Civic SI car in May 2000 – we were still renters then – and I wanted a sporty small car to commute in. My commute was about 40 miles daily, and I wanted a car that got reasonable gas mileage, but had passing power at speed on the interstate (part of my commute is on 495, aka the Washington Beltway) . My previous car, a red 1990 Honda Civic SI, had over 120k miles at that time. The 1990 Civic SI was a hatchback model, a little sport-wagon, a very sensible car design I adore.
(See my Car-buff page for more on sportswagons. )
The 2000 Civic SI was a 2door Coupe body, not the hatchback style I prefered. But we needed another car, and because the previous SI had been so solid and reliable, after a bit of comparision shopping, I bought it.
