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ambericaWe bought a new (riding) lawnmower today, which was a good and necessary purchase. It can have a plow attached for winter driveway-clearing, and it is going to be used as a regular tractor to pull the Bad(d)erpillar at Burning Man this summer. Jon assures me he will clean the air filter every day while we are out there. Hopefully it won't die.
The mower was a good price because it was returned to the store and "rebuilt" - I can't remember which part was replaced, but I'm not too worried about it. It still has the manufacturer's 2-year warranty. And it really was a very good deal. Plus we got an additional 10% off by getting a charge card for the store. Before we checked out, we did one last run through the store to see if there was anything else we needed. I didn't think we would get anything else since we found out Fleet Farm actually offers wedding registries (!!!), so we will probably end up starting one of those later on. But then, at the back of the store, we found an air-hockey table that had been marked down from $329 to $169. Oh dear... Plus, it would be another 10% off with the new store credit account... which means that if we just got the mower for full price (which was still a bargain) and applied the 10% discount from that and the air-hockey table, the table ended up costing only $80 or $90! Ooohhhhh dear. Jon loves air hockey. This sale was in-store only and ends on April 2nd or until stock runs out... so if we waited and put it on the wedding registry, someone would have to want to spend $329 on it for us - not too likely. So we bought it. I figured $90 was a small enough price to pay for in-home air-hockey, and it will be perfect in the new rec room... Plus it will be an incentive for our friends to come visit us more often when we are living out in the boonies! Ha, ha!
So yeah. If you want to come over and play air hockey with me, feel free! We are setting it up in the dining room in this house tonight... I hope it's not too loud. I never even thought of that. Hmm...
The mower was a good price because it was returned to the store and "rebuilt" - I can't remember which part was replaced, but I'm not too worried about it. It still has the manufacturer's 2-year warranty. And it really was a very good deal. Plus we got an additional 10% off by getting a charge card for the store. Before we checked out, we did one last run through the store to see if there was anything else we needed. I didn't think we would get anything else since we found out Fleet Farm actually offers wedding registries (!!!), so we will probably end up starting one of those later on. But then, at the back of the store, we found an air-hockey table that had been marked down from $329 to $169. Oh dear... Plus, it would be another 10% off with the new store credit account... which means that if we just got the mower for full price (which was still a bargain) and applied the 10% discount from that and the air-hockey table, the table ended up costing only $80 or $90! Ooohhhhh dear. Jon loves air hockey. This sale was in-store only and ends on April 2nd or until stock runs out... so if we waited and put it on the wedding registry, someone would have to want to spend $329 on it for us - not too likely. So we bought it. I figured $90 was a small enough price to pay for in-home air-hockey, and it will be perfect in the new rec room... Plus it will be an incentive for our friends to come visit us more often when we are living out in the boonies! Ha, ha!
So yeah. If you want to come over and play air hockey with me, feel free! We are setting it up in the dining room in this house tonight... I hope it's not too loud. I never even thought of that. Hmm...
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Date: 2006-03-26 08:44 pm (UTC)The Bad(d)erpillar is our groovy little train of benches on wheels with black and green stripes that will be fun for all on the playa to ride! It was named that because our T heme Camp is (was?) going to be named "Badness Patented" (long story)- but I'm not sure if that idea is going to survive. I was going to be running the whole Theme Camp project, but wedding planning and house-buying and other things have gotten the better of my time and energy. Registered Theme Camp or not, though, the Bad(d)erpillar will crawl the playa! Woo!
Bad(d)erpillar is approximately 50% done right now (he is being built in our basement), and we are getting it all out to the playa in a trailer. I don't know if we are pulling the trailer with Zebra Car (woo! back in our custody!) which already has a hitch, whether we are buying another truck-like vehicle (not bloody likely after your experience last year and ours the year before), or just putting a hitch on the "R for 2". That last option is the most likely one, and also the most tricky. R32s are rare - only 5000 were ever made - and they are all-wheel drive, so a normal hitch kit won't fit on them, and due to the rarity of the car, a kit isn't made that will fit them. Most people use them for more "sporty" things than haulinng trailers. Some fancy-ass welding will have to happen to make a custom hookup for the thing, but it sounds like that's probably the most likely option.
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