DetroitNut90

Intrigue: 121,400/1998 = 60.76 years old

Beaches/water for me. One of the nice things about Maryland is that from my house, either the Atlantic or the Appalachians are at most two hours away. Or, if I'm really impatient, the Chesapeake Bay is about 35 minutes to the east and is generally less crowded than the Delaware/Maryland beaches.

unreliable (weather forecasts, especially the ones that come from Channel 7)

Rock (Glen Rock, PA - small town in southern York County)

Two Maryland state troopers pulled a lady in an N-body Malibu over at the toll plaza before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and they were giving her a sobriety check. I pulled into the toll booth next to hers, and saw that she was failing the test pretty badly. They're out there for a reason, don't take it personally. Myself, I didn't see a police car the entire drive through Sussex County. It's like the police presence disappeared once I crossed into Delaware.

Usually, when I say "I'd like a #4," it's at a Burger King or Sonic, not a haircut place. My cousin's been giving me haircuts for as long as I can remember; come to think of it, I need to go see her soon. Having a professional hairstylist in the family is nice.

I did not know what a "dangerous snow squall" was until I walked a mile through one today.

It looks nice, the interior I think is the nicest point. Contrasting piping on the seats ftw.

The dealers at home all close their lots by parking cars in their entrances on nights and Sundays. That, and the fact that all the dealers are off busy roads without street parking means I couldn't browse if I wanted to. Dealers up here in York seem much more relaxed. One store up on Carlisle Road says you're free to browse the lots when they're closed.

Mmm...heat. Something very absent from the Mid-Atlantic today.

Talk about perfect paper writing weather. It's holding 70 outside, but it's cloudy and windy and humid...oh, and it just started raining again. There's a tornado watch good until 7 PM, too.

I think it would be a tie between the blue C3 Corvette ragtop and the white Tempest GTO convertible I saw while in downtown York today.

I made the 75-mile drive home today so I could vote (my first time, too), since my registration in York County got messed up. There weren't any lines at my polling place, so it took me longer to read the ballot and cast my vote than anything. Good riddance to campaign ads!

A red 2004 GTO. Red leather, 6MT, $20K and change. I would've put college off a year for that car. There was also an orange G8 running about Laurel Lakes today.

$2.17-$2.25 in Laurel, I think I saw $2.26 in York on Friday afternoon.

McCain was already along the path to losing my vote before he picked Palin. Her inclusion sealed the deal for me.

Very nice G5 you've got there.

-A pair of Traverses riding on a hauler -gunmetal grey Quattroporte -new M3 sedan -A Prius that looked like someone painted cow spots on it.

A parts guy at Autozone once insisted that the only pickup truck GMC made was the Sierra. It was amusing to point out the window at our bright yellow Sonoma with its shiny red GMC badge and ask him what he thought of that. My friend's sister was surprised when I told her my car was an Oldsmobile, and when I asked her why, she said "it just doesn't look like an Oldsmobile." I asked her why she thought that, and she said "I dunno, I always thought Oldsmobiles were big, ugly brown boxes; yours isn't."

When I left Pennsylvania on Friday to come home, the cheapest I saw was $3.19. Yesterday, I paid $2.95, and it's still coming down. That makes my interstate commute a little bit easier.

I didn't watch the debate, but I saw the "highlights" on the Daily Show rerun earlier this evening. I wonder why McCain was wondering around the background while Obama was talking.

A healthy dose of minding our own business would go a long way. Our policy of "bringing democracy" to other nations is like the religious trying to make us all pray to their diety. The end result is the same - the missionaries become hated by the "heathens." Bite the bullet and allow marriage become an institution between two parties that both give informed consent. The idea by any other name, IMO, is akin to separate-but-equal treatment, which has supposedly been out of practice for some time now. And for heaven's sake, marriage ceased to be a solely religious practice the moment the government stepped in and gave the newlyweds tax breaks and other legal protections. So it's the government's responsibility to either a) guarantee that everyone is equal under the law, or b) rescind the tax/legal benefits of all married couples and return it to being a religious-only practice. Or at least, that's my interpretation. Fiscal responsibility and stability, on a grand scale. I guess that could tie into minding our own business, since it would eliminate the parts of our budget devoted to "bringing democracy" to the world.

She says that she doesn't know what it's like to be for something before she was against it...I guess she forgot about the bridge to nowhere?

Her answer to the bankruptcy question was to talk about energy. ?

Excellent: Sakura - Japanese steakhouse; my new favorite place to go, every part of the meal is astoundingly delicious That's Amore - Italian joint in Rockville, I was impressed with the tortellini I ordered Poor: the Phillip's on 142nd Street in Ocean City. They used to be good...now, not so much.