Daily Archives: October 28, 2008

Getting Older

I decided to enroll in AARP for myself, because Jim won’t remember my birthday.  I got to the end of the process after credit card and everything and was told they were having system problems and I’d have to call to process my internet request.

So much for a soon-to-be-old person to be ahead of the times of AARP’s decrepit computer network.

Maybe this was a bad idea… but I’m smarter than they are!  I probably cook better, too.

Thank you, Mr. Analytical

and readers for crossing your fingers.  It didn’t work out.  That’s OK.  In terms of facts and figures the car wasn’t a good deal given the information at hand.

This is very interesting because normally I would have fallen in love with a car and wanted it.  Here I had it taken to a mechanic, ran a CarFax report and even called the manufacturer about recall history.  It doesn’t check out and I’m not emotional about it, just analytical.

This scares me because Jim is so analytical and I’m smart but somewhat emotional about decisions that if I go toward his “side” or he comes to mine it’s OK for a while until we switch positions or become an amorphous mass.

Let’s just hope he doesn’t decide to cook.  Then I’ll have to learn to be a software engineer.  Ain’t life grand?