Damn car...

We had a good time on New Year's Eve. We went bowling with Keith & Mary Jo for a couple of hours. Skylar saw one of the girls on his bowling team there and her parents. They did the glow-in-the-dark bowl so that was fun and I bowled a 150...not bad when I couldn't see the arrows on the lanes. We went to Steve & Shawntee's after that and ate good food and hung out pretty late. Got to try out the new CS on HL2. It looked really good. I still need to get my free copy of it.

New Year's day night Steve, Shawntee, Edr0 and Ted came by for a $5 buy in poker game. Shawntee, being new to the game cleaned up winning 1st place. It was cool to have that big of a game going on.

They didn't have the sheets at bowling Sunday because the league computer was down so we bowled without handicaps and they'll figure them out this week. We bowled really well and might have won all 3 games and possibly the overall point. We'll see next week. Mau and I both bowled our highest league games so far...I bowled a 159 and Mau a 178. Not too shabby I must say.

Dementia helped me remember the winter storm of 98. That was the year the car got stuck and I found a picture of Sky in one of those baby warmer suits in a ton of snow. I also remember walking over to Dementia's with baby Sky and pushing the stroller through the crazy snow. She recalled walking up to Subway and not being able to see 3 feet in front of her.

The car has once again made finances more than sketchy. It's not bad enough I have taxes looming and no real light at the end of the tunnel in hopes of paying them, now the car decided to have muffler issues. It sounded like a dragster for a few days. I know living here with all the salt in the winter doesn't help and I knew something along these lines was coming but previous issues similar to this have always been in the $100 range. No, not with a Jetta. Every possible repair on this fucking thing is through the roof. Nearly $500 to fix it today, making the total around $6000 that has been put into this car in the past year and I believe the blue book value is less than that. Hmmm, could have paid my taxes with that $6000, ironic huh? There is still one more repair in the next 3 weeks or it will not pass the Echeck and I have no clue how much that will cost yet my guess would be in the $500 range since that's what every other repair runs typically. First we have to get a diagnostic on it to see what the emissions issue is. I wish I could just dismantle the "check engine" light and see if it would pass. Never buy a German car. I love the thing to death but it's one pricey motherfucker. I need to find a car that I actually like the looks of but you don't have to sell your first born to fix...does one exist? Without going American? I know, I'm asking a lot here.