Wow, that was a crazy tennis match.

It really was. Best tennis we're likely to see this year.

One interesting piece of trivia they mentioned: the semi between Nadal and Federer is the first match ever where both players have won at least ten Grand Slam titles. (Nadal's on ten, Federer sixteen.)

My neighbor's band was playing "Message in a Bottle" for a few hours. Now they seem to be trying to work out some chord sequence, but I don't recognize it -- they keep playing about three measures of something, then stopping, then playing it again with something slightly changed, and so on.

Oh, he just has the X-Files on there because he's doing the alphabet.

Oh, ha!! I didn't catch that. That makes much more sense.

BTW, I can probably abandon my disarray and not-yet-put-together furniture to help assemble some of yours at some point.

OOH. I sense more community watching in the near future.

Once I figure out which of the things I bought need two people, I will totes take you up on that.

Gray Porch Cat is balanced carefully on the back of the iron chair, staring in the window at me, plucking at the screen, and meowing. *sigh* He's fine, you know. The weather is great, there's food and water and warm places to sleep. But I think he's lonesome.

Tomorrow his fuzzy butt goes back in the box and he goes to the vet for his last shots and to reassure me that he doesn't have something bad he could give to Leo and Percy. Then he'll come inside, and my household will be disrupted for days while we all figure out what to do with each other.

They playfight through the screen door, so they already know each other. That'll be a help.

Heh. I had brunch with my sister and her BFF, who is a big geekgirl, and I showed them the vampire pad of WTFF, and they were properly appalled.

And then we segued into geeky TV movies & shows, and Eureka came up, and I mentioned I knew someone who was good friends with Colin.

C. turned to me, with jaw agape and hissed, "I despise you!" (Remember we're in the Midwest. People get all gape-jawed from seeing local news anchors.)

It was funny. And fun.

And my sister had this amazing bananas foster pancake. OMG, so good. And we has this salmon tartare appetizer that was made with avocado, goat cheese and a pomegranate vinaigrette that I could have eaten a metric shitton of, it was so good.

We never brunch! It was fun -- my sister got a Groupon.

For the record, I didn't feel particularly disadvantaged or picked on in the dealership. The prices they had were the prices on the website, and he only showed me the cars I asked to see. And he was patient while I chatted on the phone with Colin.

Is it in salesperson's benefit to sell you on financing? He didn't try that very hard either.

depending on how the salesperson is rewarded. it is certainly in the dealership's benefit.

I thought there was an implied leverage if you buy cash? No?

I think yes, ita !. However, if you get financing through the dealership, it can make them a bit disgruntled, because -- no interest.

But salespeople have a damn hard time taking their eyes off ready cash and an instasale (and instacommission.) So...