Headlamp - Check!

Today FedEx delivered my headlamp! It has 4 super bright LEDs that can be set to 3 different brightness levels, plus strobe. It should come in VERY handy this year, as we will be having a new moon and the playa will be extremely dark.

Last year we had a full moon. It was so cool, like running around in a dream. You could see your own shadow in the dead of night!

The R32

Heh - Jon is in Lincoln, Nebraska right now. He is on his way to a suburb of Denver, Colorado to buy a new car. This all came up 2 days ago.

He has been looking to buy an R32 for several years now. The GTI that he has now was kind of a "good enough" version that was affordable and a lot nicer than the Metro, and more efficient than the Expedition. But he has been watching prices of R32s all the time, and just this weekend he was getting interested in one in Florida that had a supercharger and all this other racer-boy crap added on. The price was pretty decent, but there were a lot of weird things about it that didn't feel right.... the dude selling it didn't have the title - said he had never transferred it over from the guy HE bought it from... weird. Other stuff like that. I don't know. I just got a really bad feeling about it, and what if Jon went all the way down there only to find a lemon?? Ugh.

So then he found one in Illinois that looked like kind of an ok deal, but again, it just didn't feel quite right. And there really wasn't a clear answer between the two of them. The only sure thing was that they both looked like better deals than what he would get here in the Cities. But stilll... :-/

So I prayed. Not to a "god" or anything like that, but I just kind of prayed that the events of the next few days would play out in such a way that Jon would not end up making a decision he was not SURE about, and I prayed that if he really was going to buy an R32, he would find a deal that would feel RIGHT and SURE.

The next morning, Jon told me he had found "the one" in Colorado. The price was great, it didn't have any unneccessary mods that would void any warranty, it only had 5,000 miles on it (that's right, FIVE THOUSAND), and the guy selling it offered $13.1K on a trade in for his GTI! This is unheard of. Jon's friend who works at a dealership here in the Cities said the most he could possibly give Jon was $10K. The MOST.The guy selling the R32 is a wholesaler, and is selling the car for a friend of his who is a slightly older, rather wealthy guy who just decided he didn't want it after all. So the thing is about as close to brand new as you can get, still has TONS of warranty coverage, is selling for peanuts compared to anywhere else we've seen (I wish I could remember what he said the price is. $29K or something)... and he is getting a better trade-in value than he could have ever hoped for!

So anyway, Jon will be leaving Lincoln bright and early tomorrow morning, arriving in Englewood sometime in the afternoon, and buying the car. (The seller also offered to pay for a night's hotel stay and at least one tank of gas for the drive back! Holy crap.) Looking at this all in writing, it is starting to sound almost TOO good to be true. I hope there are no problems. Of course, with the way I let my worrying get out of hand sometimes, I can't really even afford to start down that path of thoughts right now. (Jon knows how I worry, and he called once from Des Moines, and then again when he had entered Nebraska. And then he said Hi online when he got into his hotel with free wireless.)

ANYWAY, I am up past my bedtime yet AGAIN, and I have to have lunch with a bunch of the NBU managers tomorrow, so I don't want to be too groggy and tired. *yawn* (-o-)