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Tragic note for dklegman:

Apparently my insurance policy covers me for an "intermediate" rental car while mine's getting fixed. According to the guy I spoke to, that's likely going to be a Cobalt, a Focus, or a G6. No Jeep Compass for me.

However, we may still find an excuse to let you thrash test drive whatever I get.

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( Blame Cara. She's a minister now, so she can also forgive you at the same time. )

In other news, Crate and Barrel sent me a catalog today, inviting me to "Experience!" Crate and Barrel. It has done little but convince me that the people who go to a store and buy $500 lamps for their $2500 end tables are crazy. Not "amusing" sort of crazy, either. I'm talking "Oh-look-dear, the neighbor is sodomizing himself with a bundt pan" crazy. Especially when I don't see anything in the design or production (at least in the catalog) that makes me think it's any better than the stuff I can get by going to furniture places around town, or hitting some of the bric-a-brac shops around town, where I probably get a car-load or 3 of stuff for the entire house for $3,000, not just a table and lamp.

I suspect it's a lot like the way I felt walking around Whole Foods last night. Some of the stuff looked really attractive, but the majority of it felt like it was meant for someone in a different lifestyle and/or tax bracket. (I don't care -how- organic your milk is, I'll drink WD-40 before I pay $10 for a gallon of 2% milk.)