I hope you enjoy your free car, Kidney Foundation. P.S. It's broken.

Leonard (Lenny) the Lumina has been sitting in our apartment complex for one solid year. His transmission gave out, and a car without a working transmission is incredibly hard to drive. I have found this out through intense research and experimentation.


One day, Elissa came home to find that our Apartment complex had placed an annoyingly sticky and gaudy yellow sign on his windshield. Really astute guys, my car has been in the same parking space for over a year.

"WARNING. Expired tags and expired registration. This vehicle will be towed at owner expense by Tuesday, Aug. 3rd."

I went to Chesterfield Auto Parts and talked to a nice lady at the Kidney Foundation who gladly told me that they would take Lenny for free.


The tow guy came the next day, and I bid adieu to my 'college car.' There was definitely some nostalgia thinking back about all the good times I had driving around my grandpa car. He may not have been flashy, or cool in any stretch of the imagination--but he did his job for over 5 years.


I hope that his parts are used in a lot of Lumina's around town, cause there are some REALLY junky ones out there. I also hope that none of his parts will be used to fix up a drug dealers ride.

Is that too much to ask?

VALLTEL!

This week, I renewed my interest in a college website that brought me a lot of laughs.

Homestar was silly, irreverent and full of wit. The emails from Strongbad were classic.

Why do I bring this up? Well, it looks like Verizon Wireless is going to purchase Alltel Wireless--the account I work on. I think the new name should be Valltel! This was brainstormed with some co-workers of mine. The inspiration came from none other that Trogdor the Burnanator.

Burnanating the countryside, burnanating the peasants. Trogdor!

VALLTEL! Scary.