Holy six speed, Batman!!!

So I got my new car just yesterday. It is pretty awesome, let me tell you. It's just so perfect for me, I don't think I would change anything about it. Heck, just because of the fact that it's a six speed makes me not want to change anything about it. I know I wrote about my car earlier, but just in case you don't want to go back and read that, I got a Honda Civic Si. I guess the thing I've been most pleased about is the manual transmission. That was basically a requirement when I was first looking for a car. What amazes me though is how quickly one can remember how to drive stick after taking a good two year break. I guess it's just like riding a bike or whatever other neat sayings there are for that phenomenon, but it doesn't feel like it took any thinking on my part to remember how do drive it. I guess the only thing I've done thus far is try to drive off with the emergency brake on. I haven't gotten very far with that yet, so I imagine that I will remember to take care of that here soon. I also really like my stereo system. I got an ipod link thing so I can control it through my stereo and steering wheel controls, and it is pretty awesome. So I am pretty pleased with my car, if you all were wondering. Oh, and one more crazy thing, I wasn't nervous/anxious at all when writing the check for large sums of money. I guess that just means it was the right move to make. As if I needed another reason.

Oh yea, and that new car smell....uh-mazing.

I love that new car smell (even though it's bad for you).

So I'm buying a car, for those of you who don't know, and it is supposedly being put together today. I really like the idea of having a car put together and given directly to me without anyone else even starting the engine. If you ever buy a brand new car, I would highly recommend getting one that will be newly delivered to the lot, because that is about as new as it can get. No test-drives by anyone else, no mileage on the odometer, nothing. It will be all MY car. I think it will be a great feeling to start the engine for the first time and see 0 miles on it. That seems like something that very few people would ever get to experience, first of all because a lot of people buy used cars and secondly because almost every new car will have at least a few miles on it. So it feels like such a privilege and honor to give a car its very first miles. Even though it is being made today (hopefully), it will take only 10 days to get to the dealership, so that's a pretty good turn around. It doesn't really feel like I'm getting a new car in 10 days, but I know I'll love it when it gets here. I have actually found myself driving on certain stretches of road wishing I had my new car just because it would be so fun to drive in that particular place. I think the weirdest thing that I have felt, or not felt, out of all of this is that I haven't had any nervousness or regret. It seems like that would be something that would crop up when buying something as expensive and important as a car, but I've never had any doubts at all, which I guess is a good thing. It will just make me all the happier when it gets here. So I guess a good thing to know is that if you feel no regret about buying a car, then you have the right car. Well, these are some of my thoughts about buying a new car. Hopefully it will help all of you who are planning a new car purchase in the near future. Happy searching!

Demon possessed radios

So, the best prank that I was ever a part of was probably in my Pre-Calculus class of my junior year in high school. I want to give a little bit of background about our teacher, because it makes the story all the better. Our teacher was pretty much out of it all the time. He probably got 2 hours of sleep per night and was just tired and it was obvious that he couldn't think straight at times. He told us so much about himself, and we found that he was probably the weirdest teacher we'd ever had. He actually held the Guinness book of world record for quarter snatching for a while. (Quarter snatching is where you put a stack of quarters on your elbow and then try to grab them without any of them hitting the ground). He actually failed his high school geometry class because he practiced this quarter snatching all the time. He was our MATH teacher, mind you. Other things he did: cover his ears and have a pained look on his face whenever the school bell rang, used a flowbee, told us he heard voices in his head at various times throughout class. So you can get a good picture of what this guy was like.

Well here is where the prank comes in. He had this radio in his room and it had a remote control. Now we found out that someone in our class had the same radio, and therefore the same remote. So we brought that remote and turned on the radio pretty much every class period. At first, he thought we were messing with him, but when he found out that his remote was still in the drawer, he figured there was something wrong with his radio. The first few times we did it after that, the radio station was just static, but he didn't think it was his radio, he thought it was someone vacuuming in the other room. Someone who was vacuuming in one place for a good fifteen minutes straight. Most of the time, one of the students had to turn it off because it did get pretty annoying, but the teacher just thought it was a vacuum.

The best part of the whole thing, though, was that we actually convinced him that his radio was demon possessed. We told him he should go have it exercised in order to fix the problem. He didn't think that would do anything. He actually was going to take it into Best Buy to try and have them fix it, but he never got around to it. That would have been great. I could just picture those Best Buy employees telling him there was nothing wrong with his radio, but him just telling them that it would turn on by itself. Honestly, how does something just turn on by itself? Well, we convinced him that it did, and it was well worth all our effort to see him go even crazier than he already was. Well, that was probably the best prank that I've been a part of. It was really pretty spectacular.