D'oril. Beginning the Journey

D'oril.  Beginning the Journey

Thursday, May 1, 2008

News from the front

Writing continues at a slow pace, only put in 5k words last week, and that after dumping about 3k due to terminal dullness. It happened when I went through what I'd writtien som far, and realized that one scene was totally without point. I left a placeholder, in case I can think of some way of reworking the scene, but mostly, it was missing relevance to the rest of the plot. More to come.

On the non-writing front, things are back to going mostly well. Other than work and misc. crisis floating about. We did start looking for a new truck, Vaquera, the 99 ford ranger I've driven for nearly 10 years, is starting to show it's age, so we started looking around a couple of weeks ago. Because the ranger had been a very reliable truck, I looked at ford first. I was disappointed, in part at the selection of rangers that they had at the local dealership, and in part with the salesman who "helped" me.

I came on the lot with a clear idea of what I wanted to look at, a new 4wd club cab ranger, nothing too fancy, good gas mileage and trustworthy. The salesman apparently decided I needed to see something else, and took me immediately to see a used Ford F-150. Absolutely the wrong thing to do, if he doesn't even listen to my first list of 'wants', I doubt he'll do anything right from there on. I politely let him show the used ford to me, then tagged along while he pointed out the rangers that they had. Nothing like what I wanted. I haven't gone back...

Meanwhile, both Nissan and Toyota have treated me well. Nissan's Frontier and Toyota's Tacoma are neck and neck, but Toyota seems to be a bit higher end. Or, to put it another way, Nissan is more economically priced. Since I'm not looking for a massive off road toy or powerwagon or whatever, I'm leaning toward Nissan, assuming I can find the features that I want. So far, none of the salesmen have tried to show me used alternatives..... ;-)

Gardening time is near, so I've been working (not on the railroad, but) on the sprinklers, fixing the last of the original system that the house builders put in so incompetantly. My knees may never be the same.....

More to come later, Clear skies,
Jim

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