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Damn, those are some nice burnouts, Sixty8! Smokey goodness!

I'll be going to Montreal next fall for a week, but I'm not sure if I'm going anywhere this summer since I have an internship and I don't know if they'll give me vacation time. If I do get some time off, I wouldn't mind going to the southwest or somewhere out west.

That song you posted sounded pretty good...I was impressed. I'm not a fan of the screaming vocals on the other songs though. It seems like there are a lot of bands with great melody popping up lately, but they all resort to growly vocals. The growling is what ruins the song. In some classic metal songs, there are times when very ragged vocals are appropriate and really work well to bring out some emotion in the song, but why so many new bands feel the need to growl on every song except during the chorus is beyond me. For example, I've really gotten into Soilwork...they have awesome melody and musical ability, and the guy has a great voice. But there are times where I just feel like fast-fowarding through the song because he starts "graah, rugh, ahhg" and it just sounds like crap. If anyone knows of any bands that play like Soilwork without the growly vocals, let me know because I would be interested in checking them out.

Yep, she's the one from California. I never mentioned it last night, but she does have kind of an odd personality...very secretive, locks her door a lot...almost kinda paranoid, IMO. I don't know what her family background is, but when I've talked to her about it, she seems ok with them. However, she's told me some weird things about back home...like how she went to prom with some guy that ended up murdering a girl a few months later.The last time we went out, I was trying to set it up as just the two of us do something together. Well, it ended up being the two of us plus one of her girl friends. And the entire time she was talking about all these guys she met in Chicago for her trip and other guys from her business club she's in. It was just her and her friend chatting away, and me standing thinking "why the hell am I still here?" We went out to eat after that, got back around 10:30 and the other girl was wanting to go to bed, so she had kind of a sad look on her face asking "are you sure you guys don't want to do anything else?" I told her I was just going to head upstairs for the night. I was tired and didn't want to deal with her anymore. I think that's where the souring of our friendship began...but she completely ignored me that night. The thing I don't understand is that she'll seem interested in me, remember things that I told her from way back, and yet still pull these head games. We were really close at the beginning of the year, but as the year has gone on, things have deteriorated to the point where I just don't want to deal with her anymore. I've stopped trying and am just on autopilot right now. Her 21st birthday was the one thing I was hoping would bring us closer again, but the plane crashed into the mountain on that one. So instead, I think I'm just going to move on for good. I've said that before about her and still clung on, but this time I'm serious. You know it's over when you have no desire to be around that person anymore. I was reluctant in the past because I didn't think there would be anyone to fill the void, but now that I have found someone else, it makes it much easier. Thanks for the stories reg and Bob...it's good to see I'm not the only one who has gone through this mess.

Tonight I was supposed to go out with this girl I know for her 21st birthday, but she ditched me. Here's the whole story... I met her earlier this year...she lives on my floor pretty much across the hallway from me. We hung out quite a bit last semester, and things were good. Unfortunately, in November she had a falling out with a couple of people I am also friends with, and she hated them and they hated her, so I was kinda caught in the middle. Anyway, this semester we would always talk about going to see movies together or just hanging out. She'd always be suggesting we do something, and then when the time came and I tried to set something up, she'd either leave me hanging or dish out some lame excuse like "my phone is broken" (never mind the fact that her phone WASN'T broken because I heard her talking on it the next day). So, tonight is the last straw. After hyping up her birthday for months and telling me that I have to come out with her to the bars, she ends up ditching me. I try calling her phone and get her voicemail. She never calls back. So while I set aside this Saturday specifically for her 21st birthday instead of going with friends to Iowa City, I'm stuck here in my dorm all by myself. I am beyond pissed right now....if I never saw her again, I wouldn't care. The whole thing is f'ed up...I don't get it. When I told her I was going to Italy next spring, she was all excited and telling me how she was also going to be in Ireland at the same time, and how we should meet up somewhere. And she also invited me to go with her to Las Vegas of all places in May for a weekend. Yet she ditches me on things like her birthday and going to see a movie. I don't understand it because she sometimes acts so interested in me and other times is as cold toward me as an arctic wasteland. We even went on a horse-drawn buggy together last January for Winterfest. She remembers things that I told her about myself that I don't even remember telling her. Yet she keeps pulling the same stunts everytime...I feel like I've wasted 7 months on her for nothing. I'm done with her as of tonight. I've discovered someone else who is a hell of a lot nicer and more caring. I don't know why I wasted so much time on her...but I can't take these games anymore. It's time to move on. Do any of the girls here (or guys who have gone through a similar experience) have any idea why she is acting like such a bitch toward me?

Good review...almost a 180 of the laughable Edmund's one I read the other day.

Ehh...I don't really like it that much. It looks like it has an Audi A6/Ford Five Hundred greenhouse with an '07 Sentra beltline and a Volkswagen Phaeton/Jetta front end. Hopefully the real deal looks better. + +

This was the figure from Fbodfather's post a while back about how much GM loses per vehicle on average: That's quite a big difference from what Ms. Jacobs said!

Where the hell are they getting their figures from? The last I remember reading, GM doesn't lose $6000 per vehicle...more like half that. This article is an exaggerated opinion piece without much substance.

Electric guitar. I have a white Squire Stratocaster with a mohagany neck. I'm also a professional finger drummer.

I love the amateur sketch! Hahaha Also, the one guy directing traffic is hilarious: "Don't be afraid man! Don't be afraid"...meanwhile, the Mercury Tracer is crawling down a dead end street.

A good read...it seems other automakers aren't willing to let Toyota rise to the top without a fight. http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Colum...rticleId=109823

New sig for a new month. Out with the old and in with the bold.

They end production this summer. I'm surprised it's still selling as well as it is, despite it probably being 99% fleet.

Hmm...the numbers don't seem to agree.What happened to the Accord and the Accord and Civic hybrids? Apparently consumers don't feel the same love as Motor Trend and Car & Driver. Ironically, the only really bright spot was the Ridgeline. The Civic did pretty well too.

The Fusion, Milan, and Zephyr are doing great, but I'm a little disappointed at the decline in Five Hundred/Montego sales. Hopefully the new engine in '07 will boost them up again.

She's gorgeous. That girl actually reminds me a lot of a girl I know who recently became single...

Overall, I thought last part of the segment was fairly optomistic. I missed the first part though. It kinda irked me that what's-his-name really couldn't say anything else about the Sky other than "it's not stodgy," but otherwise the segment seemed fairly upbeat.

I've noticed that every once in a while when I visit, C&G will fail to load and give me an error message. It's been happening more frequently over the last week. It usually takes a while for it to start working again. Just thought I'd give a heads up and see if anyone else has been having this issue.

I almost missed it (I was originally thinking 7 PM here in Central time), but I caught it right as they were finishing with talking about the UAW. The stuff we saw was stunning, and I was very happy with how Lutz and Wagoner presented themselves. It gives me hope that they may actually know where they are going.

New CTS?

Happy B-day 'Blu! Hope you have a good one!

I got the pox right as Christmas break was almost over in second grade, so I had an extra week long vacation. Although it wasn't all it was cracked up to be...I remember a couple nights were the itching was so bad that I couldn't sleep at all. I still have a few spots where I scratched the chicken pox too much that it left a light scar mark.

Do wheel covers come standard?

Dude, the source was straight from the NHTSA's website. These Ridgeline fires have not had media coverage yet nor an investigation.Honda is not looking into these fires very hard. They had a chance to fix the CR-V by installing a protective barrier that would shield leaking oil from being in direct contact with hot exhaust fumes, but they cited dealer error instead of doing the proper thing and recalling them. Go browse through the NHTSA's website. Honda Pilots, Odysseys, Elements, CR-Vs, and now Ridgelines are afflicted with this fire issue. One person got injured in their 1999 Odyssey when smoke from an engine fire began filling the cabin and the door lock wiring shorted out so she had to crawl out a window. Honda's response? Honda needs to get its act together. GM and Ford lost a whole generation of buyers due to unresolved issues in the 70s, 80s, and 90s...does Honda want to suffer the same fate?