It’s spring for certain here now; the cactus have started to bloom.
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New car
Not much time to comparison shop; but ended up buying the Volkswagen. It’s reasonably competent offroad, and by far the most comfortable of everything I tested. Underneath it’s basically a Golf/Jetta, same engine/transmission/interior/etc, but raised up (you can see how much higher it is than its dead stablemate). The colour is a dark grey, pretty …
Car Suggestion
Met this nice lady, from England, who suggested that I buy a Range Rover just like hers: She’s owned several Jaguars as well, and this is probably her eighth Land Rover. She says that her lawns are quite large, and the Rover is very nice for driving around your property, and has good space in …
Celine Dion
Turns out, there’s nothing at all wrong with Celine Dion songs; it’s just a matter of who performs them. This is the creation of Scott Bradlee, who has a loosely-knit collection of musicians called Postmodern Jukebox, who take music from one genre, and perform it in a completely different one. (Others have started doing this …
Easter
We had a nice Easter dinner on Friday night, and had a bunch of friends over; and so we decorated the tables appropriately: Easter in Moab means Jeep week. Normally, it’s insanely crowded; this is their 50th anniversary, so it is even more rediculous than usual. So: people drive thousands of miles to get out …