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The last time I had a loaner on account of my car was in the shop, it was a Hyundai Elantra from Enterprise that I compared to having bad sex.

This time, it's a Chevy Cobalt from Budget, which is ... well, if we're going to continue the metaphor, I suppose it's like sleeping with someone much younger than yourself -- and it's fine, but you wonder what all the fuss is about, and you don't think everyone needs to be in a hurry all the time.  In particular, this one is white (which is stupid) and has a rear spoiler (which is not only stupid, but also actually obstructs some of my rearview, so I can't always tell if there's safe space to change lanes).  It's still an automatic, but at least it's got some kick.  Heap big thanks to esti626 for coming and getting me and ferrying me to the airport to get this rental car, which I'm going to have to name something like Lance.


Also, I left the TV on while I was out getting the car, so I could see the rest of the game on DVR -- and I'm glad I did, because even though I know how it ends, I'd have been sad to miss Asdrubal Cabrera's great catch in the top of the 7th.  Damn!

1.  la_rainette.  she spent omg i don't even know how long ripping her CD of the St John Passion and then zipping it and sending it to me.  so i can listen and read along with my score and learn all those goddamn eighth notes quavers!  (and i can burn a copy so my friend in the choir can do the same!)  love.

2.  datlowen.  he taught me how to expand a function in Excel, without which knowledge i would still be typing '=LN(PRODUCT(Ex,(1/1090000)))' for ever-increasing values of x now, and it would be hours and hours and hours before i discovered that it would be better to use =LOG10 instead of =LN, and that the figure should be 100100000 instead of 109000.  so much love.

yay!

oh, i adore this woman.  for one thing, her mood is always either "merry" or "contrary", which is just cute.  but the real thing is, i don't remember the last time i ran into someone so genuinely sweet.  merrycontrary is such a sweetheart that we sometimes have to persuade her to snark just so she won't give herself an ulcer.  because on her own she wouldn't do it, i mean.  [dies]  what a doll.  and even without a snark reflex, she's funny!  i don't know very many people who can do that.  [loves merrycontrary]

ah, obsessed1.  she's cool because she brings teh snark.  what else can i say?  :-)  she and i seem to share a general attitude, which is, If you don't have something nice to say -- come and sit by me.  (thanks, alice.)

behind the snark, though, beats a heart of pure gold, and because i am a slacker and have left this waiting to be posted for two months, i am in a position to report rock-solid evidence of that:  obsessed1 just cut off more than half of her hair and donated it to Locks of Love, which, let me tell you, when your hair is down past your waist, is not an easy thing to do.  i, for example, intend to do it one day; but it is not this day.  i applaud obsessed1's fortitude and coolness.

lysrouge is very cool. she's committed and determined and those are valuable things to be when you're young. her fortitude in the face of difficulty is damned inspiring -- i bet money i couldn't turn my life around the way she's done. plus, she's funny!

very cool. that's all there is to that.

things that are cool about rev_tobias:

-- he is at least bi-, if not more-, lingual
-- he shares (in fact, he's probably a good deal responsible for) my conservatism wrt canon (in star wars, for example, The Films Are Canon, Full Stop); right? i'm not mis-remembering that? well, if i'm wrong, then, that's just a reason i think rev_tobias is cool. i've been wrong before. ;-)
-- he's appropriately stubborn, but he doesn't get obnoxious when you out-argue him. :-D

plus, of course, he has a jesse custer icon.

sharp_tongue writes lucius malfoy impeccably, which in my book earns a person like eight thousand cool points right out of the gate. also, she's smart and funny and annoyed by the same people things i'm annoyed by, which makes her even more cool. :-) plus: when she got terminally frustrated by her job, she found and applied for and got a new one. that's always cool, no matter who does it. i wish i were better at that myself.