Tell Me Your Favourite Song

The new car, or new to me anyways. 1997 Mitsubishi Galant DE. Standard transmission. When I saw the car, I wanted it, immediately, but the transmission made me want to turn around and run screaming for the hills. It's not that I doubted I could learn, but automatic is so easy, and I live in a rather mountainous region. But the car was a pretty good deal, in pretty good shape, and it really is a nice little car.

The thing is, after I got the car, we couldn't figure out how to get the 12 disc changer (Pioneer *drool*) to recognize my cds. Mind you, half the battle is that the face plate in the console was chewed by a dog (or a weird kid, who knows) and it's burnt out in a few places. So you can't see what you're doing. No music (and no decent FM...the AM I can't find anymore...got it once and lost it) wasn't so bad at first. I was focused on driving a stick, the shifting, clutching, driving. But now that I've got a pretty good handle on it...driving in silence is boring.

So yesterday Craig tinkered around in the car for a while before finally getting it to work. It's great. The disc changer for whatever reason doesn't like slot 12. But I can live with that. Even if I can only have 6 or 7 cds in there, it'll still be better than 1 cd or none. Right? Right. Did I mention that the skip forward button is busted? Ah well, that can't be easily fixed I don't think. So to E-bay.ca I go and I'll have to find a face plate that's compatable. I've seen a few (I need one of those Super Tuner III ones) that are a bit older, but whatever works. My plan was that if we couldn't fix the changer for less than $100, sell it for $200 (Letting the person know) and that's still half the price of the changer at the store. The cheap store.

I don't know what is the matter with me today, I'm exhausted. Very exhausted. Okay that's somewhat of a lie. I didn't have a nap after work yesterday, and then hung out with Brandy and Craig til about 6ish. Once the stereo was working I HAD to go for a drive. Got home, was tired, but wouldn't let myself sleep so early (Maybe I should have) and watched the CSI:Miami Marathon on A&E before catching the new episode on Global.

My boss was away this weekend, attending his little brothers wedding. Come to find out, that his older brother passed away suddenly. So he's out of town for the next few days. Autopsy is going to be done. My heart goes out to his family. It's just a terrible thing. I guess he was in a big car accident years ago, and has been in a wheelchair since. He went to hospital feeling not so good (I think flu like symptoms) and passed away not long after. It's terrible when someone dies, but it's worse when it's unexpected and it occurs to someone fairly young. Thoughts and well wishes for the boss' family.

Gah. I want to just get home and crawl into a warm bed. Snooze away the afternoon. Won't be going much of anywhere tonight.