9/5/08

Yes, that was an arbitrary number I came up with yesterday as the selling price for DLR. It started out much lower but kept creeping up as I thought more about what all I was promising to give up. No, no one has come forward with a) that amount or 2) a counter offer. Anyhoo, let’s move on, shall we? I'm typing one handed right now because I'm eating a Pop Tart with the other. So what? I don’t know. I just thought y'all might give a crap. What made me think that, I'll never know. Ok, I'm done with the Pop Tart. It was cherry, frosted, and quite tasty. I'm also drinking a Dr. Pepper, a 20 oz Dr. Pepper. No, they didn’t replace the 20 oz rancid diarrhea filtered through a Bolivian unicyclist's jockstrap, AKA Coca Cola, machine with a 20 oz Dr. Pepper machine, this was leftover from a meeting and I snagged it. Ok, enough inane chatter about stupid crap. I have a warning for Texas motorists looking for personalized license plates. As of August first, 2008, there is a dude contracted with the Texas Department of Transportation who will sell you personalized plates. His website is linked several times from the TXDOT website. Almost every place Juan might click to attempt to find personalized plates sends him to this dude’s site. I'm sure it is not a scam, not that part at least, because I spoke to a lady I know who works at the county courthouse. So, for all intents and porpoises, it appears as though that is the only way to order personalized plates. But wait, if you do drill down through several layers of options, menus, and drop-downs, you will find the old system still in effect. That is kicker number one: it is easy to find dude’s site but hard to find TXDOT’s “standard issue” personalized plate system. Kicker number two is: the dude’s plates cost up to, get this, twenty times more than the TXDOT plates! And the final boot-to-the-nuts kicker is: once you place an order, you cannot cancel it! So, let us assume for a moment that someone goes to the TXDOT website looking for personalized plates. There he finds several links to myplates.com, or whatever that dude’s site is called. He, the dude shopping for plates not the one running the plate site, finds a design he likes and starts playing with letter and number combinations. He finds an available six letter combination he likes on a background he likes. He decides to go ahead and bite the bullet and order them. “Well,” he rationalizes, “my buddy has personal plates on his car. If he was willing to pay that much, so can I.” Later on, while talking to said buddy, he finds out just how much more he paid for his plates. Of course he cannot cancel the order because the plate number has been entered into the system already so he’s stuck buying plates at ten times the price his buddy paid. Then he has two radiators fail him while attempting to get his car back up and running… er, I mean, the end. Oh screw it. Yes, I bought overpriced plates for Shi-Chi the other day, right before the radiator fiasco. That was the other reason why I was ready to chuck it all and sell off all my crap. Oh, and let’s not forget the fact that George may be terminal. I swear. I really don’t know why I'm into this hobby sometimes. Now, having said all that, John found a bitchin’ all-aluminum radiator for a Honduh on e-Bay which we think should fit in Shi-Chi. Of course it won’t arrive in time to install it this weekend so I'm going to have to think of something else to work on tomorrow. Perhaps I'll just watch John work on his car. I don’t know, we’ll see.