10/4/2012

I saw a Genesis Coupé on the way in to work this morning.  I'm beginning to miss Fiona.  I assume the wheel being repaired is what is holding us up.  Ok, no it isn’t.  I just called and the car otter be ready tomorrow evening.  I just have to go to the credit onion and get them to cut the check for it.  Huzzah!  Now I gotta finger out how I'm going to get there to pick it up.  Hopefully John will be available to… something.  I'm thinking, and this is me just thinking out loud, is it “thinking out loud” if I'm typing it rather than saying it?  Wait, I seem to have lost track.  Ok, here’s what I'm thinking.  I'll pick up John from his house.  We’ll go get the car and caravan to my house.  I'll bring him back home.  Mom will be in Austin for a football game where my niece will be in the halftime show with the band.  I'm on my own for the evening is what I'm trying to get across.  I suppose we could leave Fifi at John's house overnight and he could drive it to the shop Saturday.  I'd have to drop him off at his house but then I might be able to catch Navajo and them at Hillbilly Hoedown.  Wait, that’s not the right name.  It was something like that.  Redneck Heaven!  That was it!  Hmm, that might not be a bad idea after all since John waned to bring those Gram Lite wheels home with him.  I hate seeing him put dirty nasty stuff like that in the back seat of his car.  I'd rather drive him home with them in Fifi.  That seems like a workable plan to me.  I'll see what John has to say when he reads this tonight.  Or I guess I could pose the question to him in a text message.  Or I could answer my phone when he calls just now.  Hang on a moment.  Well, it may or may not go down tomorrow.  He’s checking to see if it will work logistically on his end.  We’ll see.  If so, we’ll be doing the “leave Fifi for him to drive to the shop then have me bring him home Saturday” plan.  At the very least I need to go to the credit onion this afternoon and get them to cut their check to the body shop.  So, soon I will have Fiona back.  I'm going to have to re-learn how to drive it.  The torque curve is so different from… well, all of my other running cars, that I am not the most graceful with the clutch for the first few days after getting used to another.  It is really weird how in the Genesis Coupé, the big V6 has the torque curve of a high-strung four cylinder while the turbo four has the bottom end grunt of a big motor… relatively speaking.  The V6 still has 100 foot/pounds more torque than the turbo four, but it happens at higher revs… sort of thing.  Anyhoo, there’s all of that going on.  As for the shotguns, I think I'm going to try and sell the Bullpup Mossberg at the next gun show.  I'm not as in love with it as I was when I bought it.  I don’t regret buying it… well, not any more than I regret any stupid purchase, but it just isn’t the be all and end all of shotgundom that I… ok, I'm not sure where I was going with that either.  The long and the short of it is I think I'm going to try and sell it.  That will free up space for me to put the Beretta Neos .22 back in the rack rather than hanging it from the door like I have it now… or free up a space for another long gun.  No, the money from the sale of the Bullpup will probably go towards a Taurus revolver.  I went to this last show thinking I wanted a Ruger LCR, a small .38 special revolver with a polymer frame and really cool super-fluted cylinder.  Unfortunately they were all priced about double what I had to spend.  When I came across Taurus’s answer to the LCR, and saw that it was just a shade more than I had on me, I decided I'd rather go that route.  In fact, had I not found the Cobra Tactical shotgun, I probably would have mooched a fiddy from Larry and bought a Taurus .38 revolver.  Of course today I just found out that Taurus also makes, or made at one time at least, a small-frame revolver chambered in 9mm!  I'd much rather have something else in 9mm than start over with a new caliber… but I'm willing to get into .38 special, I'm easy.  So, to make a short story long, if I sell the Bullpup, I'll probably buy a Taurus small-frame .38 revolver… unless something else catches my eye.  Well, I'm getting bored with talking to y'all so I'm going to call it a rant for today.  Toodles.