The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, August 15th

Aug. 16th, 2025 12:57 am
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Angel: Um, am I gonna see you this weekend? You, uh, you-you probably have plans.
Buffy: Right, birthday. Um, actually, I, I do have a thing.
Angel: Oh, a thing. (trying to be cool) A date?
Buffy: (nods) Nice attempt at casual. Actually, I do have a date. (steps closer) Older man. Very handsome. He likes it when I call him 'Daddy'.
Angel: (smiles) Huh, your father. (frowns) It is your father, right?

~~Helpless~~

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Rainy Day off

Aug. 15th, 2025 08:39 am
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I was exhausted last night. Between losing two baseball games, building a table and cleaning up after, etc. I slept good. (Now, why is 'slept good' acceptable when it's a clear violation of the verb modified by adverb rule???? and why am I just noticing this now?????)

So, I'm reading this book that I'm not that into but can't quite find the spot to abandon. It's about two grown sons and their mother. The mother character has - in the first half of the book - been drawn as very old and so fairly demented and failing in health of body, mind and spirit. Then last night, the author finally mentions her age - SIXTY FUCKING TWO!!! Holy crap. Seriously. Insulting. I'm pissed. But, still reading, of course.

But, people, 62 is not old. Late middle age, maybe, but not old at all.

I love my new coffee table and the uncluttered look it provides. And the pop up bit is wonderful. I moved the massive knitting bag off the couch in yet more uncluttering. This morning, I learned that the cats both appear to approve. And there is still room for me!

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I got an email last night from my guy at Crate and Barrel saying my new couch cushion was underway and including the invoice again but this time it said delivery ETA mid-September.

It's a rainy day and later on, we're supposed to have REAL rain. Now, it's just wet and misty.

I might do laundry. I might not.
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, August 14

Aug. 14th, 2025 08:35 pm
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Giles: The rest of the pack were spotted outside Herbert the mascot's cage. They were sent to the principal's office.
Willow: Good! That'll show 'em... Did it show 'em?
Buffy: They didn't hurt him, did they?
Giles: They, uh... ate him.

~~The Pack~~



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Still alive and table is fab

Aug. 14th, 2025 12:59 pm
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This morning after volleyball my heart started racing. It happens from time to time but today I could not make it stop. I went on with my regular stuff, including hauling the heavy table bits up and then going back to return the cart I borrowed. Still it raced. So I didn't rush anything and rested a bit before I opened the table box.

I do have a handy but reliable??? ECG app on my watch and it wouldn't work because my heart rate was 141 and it can only measure under 121. Whatever. It slowed down a little and I got to work.

The table was a little more complicated than I expected but I took it slowly and got it all built. And the box tossed and the old C table put into the storage area and my stuff moved to the new table which, actually, I like quite a bit. It pops up to the perfect height for typing and eating but then down low enough to make a nice footrest and it has lovely storage.

My heart rate is down now but still wonky. If I die, feel free to pass on these dets to anyone who wants to know.

Next up. Vacuum. Table building is messy.
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Today's job

Aug. 14th, 2025 08:32 am
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I finally tracked down the coffee table that Fed Ex delivered yesterday. Most of Amazon's deliveries go into a set of lockers. I get a bar code when they are put into the locker. Easy peasy. Great system.

The rest of the packages do not have such an easy birth. They get delivered to the front hallway and then, mostly but not always, get moved to a locked room in another part of the building. From there, they get delivered in the afternoons, sometimes. Often as not 'ooops, the delivery guy was off today' or 'ooops the delivery guy forgot to pick up the second run of packages' or 'ooops we didn't have the staff'.

The system used to be that you could pick up your package at the front desk if you didn't want to wait for delivery. That was great. But, alas, that process got killed off. About a week ago, I wrote to the head guy and asked him to think about giving us a pick up window. An hour/half hour every day when, if we want, we could go get our packages ourselves.

Then yesterday my coffee table got delivered to Timber Ridge at 10 am and to me at ... never. After volleyball, I went by the office of the guy whose job it is to handle packages to see if I could get some info. He wasn't there but my package was! So I wrangled it up here.

BREAKING news! Just as I was typing this whole boring story out, I got a note from TylerThePackageGuy, saying they were going to institute a package pick up time from 1-2 every day! Woot!! And nice. Very nice.

So that's my day today - putting together this table. First I want to get dressed and return the cart to the front desk and get the Timber Ridge Times for our floor and distribute. Gotta get my chores done before work. Today's Mariner game is at 10. The Phillies aren't til 4. Both of them lost yesterday and not because they were playing better teams. Neither game was good. Hopefully today is better.

Oh, the annual car visit was the easiest, best yet. $150. No big issues. They were done before lunch. I swung into the car wash on the way home to celebrate. Now you need sun glasses in the garage. Most all the cars around mine are owned by people who no longer drive so they are covered in dust. Mine shines!

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, August 13th

Aug. 14th, 2025 02:05 am
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CONNOR: All right. I get it. I messed up.
FAITH: Hey, cheer up, punk. That just makes you one of us.
GUNN: You headed out?
FAITH: Yeah, no tears, big guy. (gives Gunn a high-five)
GUNN: Nah, I'm good. I just wish I could've seen you kicking the crap out of junior, here.
FAITH: It was pretty funny.

~~Orpheus~~



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Bite me, Brian

Aug. 13th, 2025 08:31 am
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I love my car repair place. They always welcome me and my Smart Car with open arms and take very good care of me. But, BrianTheServiceAdvisor (I have his card so I know his title) isn't their star. They open at 8. They want you there at 8. But if you get there before 8, you have to wait outside. I got there this morning at 8:02. Door locked. So I went back to my car to get the mileage which I'd forgotten to jot down. 39925.

When I got back, the doors were open and Brian was waiting. I handed him the letter that shows I get %30 off and pointed to the mileage. The correct answer was "Oh, thank you!" What I got was "oh, I don't need that". I do need the key. "The key is in the car." The correct response is "oh, great. we really rather you bring it in so no one can nip the car while you are in here! But, that's for next time. I'll go get it right now." Brian says "don't ever do that!!!".

It's a tone, Brian. A tone makes the diff. Didn't your mother teach you that?

(The Mercedes place in Seattle had a fit if you didn't leave your key in the car BUT, in fairness, that was after you drove into their massive windowed garage.)

Brian told me to have a seat. They have this fabulous snack basket/coffee area and I had already eyed a little package of iced cookies BUT before I could get my ass into a chair, a really nice voice behind me said "I'm actually ready to go if you are." And I was home by 8:15. Realizing that Brian had not asked me if there was anything special I wanted them to look at or described the services they will perform. I trust them. I just don't like Brian.

But, it will be fine.

It's not nearly as cool out as I was expecting. And my a/c is acting wonky. Right now, it's too hot in here. In about 10 minutes it will be too cold. I suspect we're now dealing with residual building heat after the last few days of too hot. This, too, shall pass.

My measure of a good hair cut is when I roll out of bed in the morning and there are no stickie-outies. I can just smooth it out with my hand and I'm good to go. Bonny did an excellent job yesterday. It was perfect when I rolled out of bed this morning. She now has a permanent job.

I'm still stressing about my banking situation. BUT I've decided to hold off doing anything about it for now. I've still got my main accounts and a small backup checking account at another institution and probably, really, that's all I need.

No plans for today - well, TV, puzzle, baseball, knitting... the usual. And go pick up the car when it's ready.

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, August 12th

Aug. 13th, 2025 01:12 am
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Cordelia: I feel a little guilty.
Angel: Don't. - I mean, nineteen dollars for a - sashimi couscous appetizer is money well spent. How was it anyway? Pretty good? I mean, it ought to be pretty...
Cordelia: It's delicious but that's not what I feel guilty about.
Angel: Oh. (Sees Wesley looking at him) I 'm not cheap, I-I'm just old. I-I remember when a few bob got you a good meal, a bottle *and* a tavern wench. - You were saying?

~~Belonging~~

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Too hot? Wait 3 days

Aug. 12th, 2025 09:05 am
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Wild.

I started bank dancing yesterday. I'm currently happy with BECU but I do hate having all of my eggs in one basket. My backup basket has been Key Bank but I'm pissed at them again. I'll leave a little in a free account there, but then I went trolling for high yield savings. I started the process of opening a new account at a new place but, today I've decided that if I do move some funds, it won't be there. They have no chat. It's called or nothing. Nope. I will make one call, if necessary, to back out of the process but, I think if I don't report my .23 and .13 and .09 the application will die on the vine. As long as it dies.

I'll stick with BECU for now.

My hair is getting too long. This is measured by sticky-outy-ness. When I wake up in the morning, if I have to touch it - comb down one bit or another - it's too long. Myrna used to cut it for me. Actually she usually told me it was time for a cut and then cut it. I thought I'd get Bonny or Martha to do it. I started with Bonny and texted her this morning. The good news is she's happy to do it and will come on down before lunch. The bad news is she reminded me that today is the 3rd floor meeting. I intend to pass on it but she thinks I should go. This will take some maneuvering. But, it's fine.

The meetings are always dreadful but this week is Yet Another Emergency Preparedness meeting. This is a topic that has no right answers and plenty of ???? and everyone thinks they are correct in their plan. It always leads nowhere and I've been there and don't want to go back.

Both my baseball teams are on the east coast for the next 10 days or so and so it will be two games at once for most days. They, in fact, play each other starting Monday. Since they are in different leagues, they play each other very rarely. Should be interesting.

My baby brother turns 72 today.

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Monday, August 11th

Aug. 11th, 2025 04:50 pm
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Lorne: Now, I want you to relax. Picture yourself outdoors, in a field, or on a mountain.
Cordy: I like the mountains.
Lorne: Beautiful. Say you're on a mountaintop, and it's warm. The sky is blue, full of big, fluffy clouds. You're Julie Andrews in 'The Sound of Music.' And you're relaxed and you're spinning and the camera is swirling and - ouch! (Lorne recoils from Cordy) Careful, honey, you've got some power of your own!
Cordy: Sorry. All the spinning and swirling was freaking me out.

~~That Vision Thing~~


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Monday

Aug. 11th, 2025 07:57 am
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I did not leave my apartment yesterday and I ate way too much and it was a lovely lovely day.

Today I have nothing on the calendar. No clue why aqua yoga was canceled but I'm delighted. I will probably go out and puzzle some. I might order a meal for pick up. I will watch the Phillies game (the Mariners are off today) but, that's the entirety of the plan.

Looks like my new coffee table might get here on Wednesday which means I might actually have it on Thursday. They used to let us come pick up packages after they were delivered but now you have to wait for them to bring them to you and that's generally not until the next day. Annoying but not a huge issue most of the time. It will be a huge issue when I order a new phone or some other new tech gear. I'm not sitting around waiting for it. BUT I want to use my special case begging for exception for special cases. And Thursday will be fine for the table.

I started a one line a day journal in January of 2023. It's a 5 year book. and I noticed last night that I am now more than half way through the book. I do my entry when I get into bed at night. It is interesting to peek at what happened last year and the year before. This week two years ago I was just about to start thinking about CCRC's for real and looking into places like Timber Ridge.

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, August 10th

Aug. 10th, 2025 11:53 pm
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DAWN: My friend Janice? Her sister's a lawyer.
XANDER: You think I should sue over the burger? That's interesting.
DAWN: No, I just mean... (sighs) Buffy's never gonna be a lawyer, or a doctor. Anything big.
XANDER: She's a Slayer. She saves the whole world. That's way bigger.
DAWN: But that means she's gonna have like crap jobs her entire life, right? Minimum wage stuff. I mean, I could still grow up to be anything. But for her ... this is it.

~~Doublemeat Palace~~



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the cycle

Aug. 10th, 2025 09:23 am
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This morning I went through another round of stressing about my backup email. All it takes is a glance at a random tail about someone losing access to their google account and boom - into a tailspin I go. The last round - not even that long ago - sent me to set up a backup situation where all my emails were sent to my susandennis.com hosting server. But, turns out, that's just not practical for several reasons. So now it's back to outlook.com. It cost me $20 a year and Microsoft is about as dodgy as Google if my account gets hosed but at least I now have two places - cloudwise - I can find out what size swimsuit I bought from that place where I used to get them way back in the before times - easily.

I somehow forgot to do laundry. I remembered last night but it was too late to start so that's what's happening now.

We're going to have a few days of really hot weather here this week but it's fine. I do have to go outside on Wednesday but it will be in an air conditioned vehicle. We're almost done here. The days are getting shorter and if/when more heat comes, it will only really be for a few hours. I can handle it.

Today is baseball and knitting. AND I have the gift of nothing on the calendar tomorrow. Nice. They had meatloaf and chicken on the buffet last night. I got both. Ate the chicken and plan to see that meatloaf on a fabulous sandwich today. Last night was my last night for this month's $600. I had $3.00 left after the buffet. I breezed into the bistro (our 7/11) and told Nohn who was on duty, my problem. "What you need is a toffee ice cream bar. Yep. He was right. It's in the freezer now for this afternoon and my account is $0.

Time now to watch Tia Watson's Sunday morning video. She bought a house for $1 and is fixing it up. She is as good as house fixing up as she is at video editing and it makes a delightful way to start my Sundays.

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, August 9

Aug. 9th, 2025 10:59 pm
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BUFFY: Kathy's evil. I'm an evil fighter. It's simple... I'm gonna have to kill her.
WILLOW: You have to kill her? Don't you think you could just switch rooms, or something?
BUFFY: Well I would, but it's not just me in danger from Kathy. Look.
WILLOW: Toenails?
BUFFY: Evil toenails. I took them off the floor last night when she was in the bathroom. She thought I was asleep.
WILLOW: Good thinking, 'cause in the middle of the night those toenails could have attacked you and left little half-moon marks all over your body.
BUFFY: Don't be ridiculous. The point is I measured them before I fell asleep and again this morning, and they grew. After they were cut! That's a demon thing, she has to be eliminated.

~~BtVS 4x02 “Living Conditions”~~



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Saturday

Aug. 9th, 2025 12:04 pm
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The pool has been so cold and then, Thursday, cloudy. So when they sent the announcement that it was closing for maintenance, we really didn't think it was going to open any time soon. But it did! and this morning, the water was crystal clear and plenty warm and volleyball was very fun.

Elbow coffee was fine. No big news. Just comforting neighbors comforting. Everyone's really concerned about John. It's kind of like a wait before the wake.

Now I'm home watching the Braves and Marlins game because one of the umpires has a vagina! So far she's doing great. And they gave her a nice, but not overly nice, welcome. Deft.

So I added risers to my couch and that made the chaise piece look funny so I moved it to storage and then I discovered that there was a mess of wires under the table that just looked horrible so I plugged and unplugged and replugged and then eliminated a couple of cables and bundled the rest and it now looks much better. But, really, one thing and then another and then another...

Spacefem has another one of her financial entries up today that has me thinking. She has vastly different goals and needs and financial requirements than I do but her thots on her own finances always get me to rethink mine. Today I'm thinking about my Amazon purchases which I do not track in a lot of detail but want to start (or restart - I used to). I don't know that I'll make many changes, I just want to know for sure, what I'm doing.

And... here's a shocker... I have no Amazon returns!

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, August 7th and Friday, August 8th

Aug. 9th, 2025 12:38 am
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Willow: Buffy. Don’t let jerky Parker chase you away.
Buffy: He didn’t. I just don’t want to deal with this right now. I’m taking a holiday from dealing, happily vacationing in the land of not coping.

~~Fear Itself~~

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ooops lost a week

Aug. 8th, 2025 11:36 am
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The new coffee table won't be here Monday, it will be here a week from Monday. Fine. I did figure out where the other stuff will go. And how to add electricity and charging ports to it. So I'll be ready.

I went to Daiso and to Goodwill. It's so weird to go that far away. But mission totally accomplished. Daiso has far more things than it did last trip which was more than a year ago. And the prices are higher, of course, but it was fine and fun.

My 1st priority at Goodwill was a tissue box holder for the bedroom. Really. It had to be heavy and dark. I had one but in a mad chase one night about a month ago, Julio knocked it off the nightstand and it broke into more pieces than could be put back together. It's a difficult thing to shop on Amazon for because I wanted the cheapest I could find and heavy and, preferably not breakable. I found exactly that at Goodwill. $5. It's dark, it's kind of heavy like stone and feels like stone. And now my tissue box won't go flying every time I try to pull out one to blow my nose!

I also found some good hair colored sweaters to unravel and, best of all, ran out of steam before I could cause much more financial disaster. Home and lunched now.

I did get a text from Steve that the pool may be reopened today so volleyball could be back on tomorrow. I'm ok with that.
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Just stuff

Aug. 8th, 2025 07:32 am
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Mainly, I'm pretty sad this morning about my brother's wonderful dog. The two are spending their last weekend together and it's just sad. I'm getting used to seeing the old die but it's still mostly sad.

I have a fair number of friends here who are turning 89 this year. 1936 must have been a great year for sex. Several play volleyball. Last night I went down to scoop up some take out dinner from the buffet and ran into Steve (who's only about 85, I think) and Wally (one of the 89 year olds) and his wife, Marilyn. They were getting ready to go into the dining room and asked me to join them so I did. It was lovely. Wally had spent the afternoon watching the very long Mariners game that had just ended - as had I.

After dinner, I picked up my new sofa feet - the 2"ers to replace the 4"ers. Steve offered to come back and help but I said I thought I could do it and I did get them swapped out and, turns out 2" was right. Just enough height to make getting up easy.

Now I'm considering replacing my ottoman and c table with a coffee table that pops up. Actually, I just ordered it. Be here Monday. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the ottoman and c table. Well, the table will fit into storage but the ottoman... It will all work. And look less hodge podge.

Today I'm going to the Goodwill in Bellevue. I have two things I want and I think I can find them there rather than go into Seattle. It's not that much closer but a little easier to deal with maybe. And I might stop at that big Daiso store on my way home.

The shade rehanging was done gratis as it should have been. I swapped notes with the sales guy and thanked him and then revised my previously revised review - back up to 5 stars. All is good.

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Aug. 7th, 2025 02:18 pm
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The shades have been rehung. The same guy who hung them originally was back. Nice and efficient. This time I knew what to look for and change before he left. This time he did not clean up his mess but it wasn't a big deal. Hand vac did it. The original installation left scars which he didn't even mention. Like I wouldn't notice. I noticed. But, decided not to worry about it. If it bugs me, I'll fix it OR put it on the list of projects we can do when my brother makes his next visit in January.

My Amazon deliveries should be here within the hour.

Aqua yoga was canceled for next Monday. No reason given. This was in the weekly newsletter. BUT then we got an email from Erica, the Fitness Director, that the pool was closed til further notice. This morning we noticed that it was not as clear as usual. Last time they lost control of the clear, the pool was closed for six weeks. But, this time, they caught it much earlier so maybe it won't be so long.

It does mean, however, I need to find a volleyball substitute. :( Probably I'll go get on one of those bikes or the elliptical machine. Which I hate.
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Full day, maybe

Aug. 7th, 2025 08:25 am
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It's still cloudy and so dark. When I got back from volleyball, just after 8, it was very dark in the living room. I got two wall sconces last Spring for just such dark mornings and, this morning, I fired them up for the first time. Perfect. Just a splash of soft light which is all I need and want first thing. And, they have a 1 hour button so I can just press that and forget about them. I charged up both last night so I'll be interested to see how long a charge lasts at an hour a day.

It's warm in this living room this morning so I opened the door to the terrace which I rarely do. Both cats are fascinated with the smells and sounds.

Amazon is sending my lower risers today. I have a plan for swapping them out. But, Plan B is text to Steve who's ready if Plan A doesn't work.

The shades installer/reinstaller is on tap to be here sometime between noon and 3. He needs to take down and rehang the window shade. There will be holes. I should dig out the paint pot I have for that wall color. But, mainly I want him to be a little tidier this time in how the middle meets and the ends align. We'll see. I do still love the look and the function of these blinds. They are so much better than the ones I had in condo - as far as smartness is concerned. The only problem I have is trying to remember if telling Alexa to raise them to 75% means they will go mostly up or mostly down. Usually, I tell her 50% because that one's easy for both of us.

The checkup light on my car's dashboard came on yesterday. This is how I know it's time for my annual visit to the nicest car fix it place in the world. I called yesterday and they are going to fix me up next Wednesday. They are always so lovely to deal with. After years at the hands of the snotty, rude Mercedes people, these folks are a joy. I don't expect any big issues. It's running fine and does not yet have 40,000 miles on it. It will turn 14 years old next week.

I was working from home using Comcast internet and they had an outage and I couldn't do any work things so I got into my Ford Fiesta and drove to the Smart Car dealership. I'd been thinking about it for a while but had yet to actually go get into one. It was a blistering hot August day and I thought, if the a/c works, I'm buying it. They had several ready to sell and two in excellent colors. I picked the green one. Handed the guy my cash and my Ford keys and drove it home. I love it as much today as I did that day. About six months later, Mercedes bought the brand so I never went back to that dealership.

We had another Comcast outage the next week and my boss asked 'so... what are you buying today? a horse?'

The Mariners are playing a day game today and the Phillies aren't playing at all.

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