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Sometimes You've Got to Buy Yourself an Old Luxury Car

December 29, 2006 12:40 AM

othing too interesting has happened for the past few days. Today, though, my aunt bought a car. A BMW. Convertible. From 1989. She's picking it up tomorrow. I kind of can't wait to drive it. I've never driven a convertible, and, given that the weather out here is anything but Christmas-y, tomorrow should be a perfect convertible driving day.

The other thing that happened is that my uncle from Redwood City got here. He's a pretty cool guy. He owns this gardening and landscaping business in the bay area and he's pretty successful at it. Anyway, he started this foundation that collects money so that they can give college scholarships to people who would otherwise be fucked. He's been talking about it for a while but it's just started getting off the ground in the past year or so. He's really proud of it, and the whole family's really proud of him, me included.

He was featured on a Spanish-language news program in the bay area in a segment called "My Hero is . . . ." He brought a tape of the segment with him, and it was really cool to see him getting interviewed and stuff. He was incredibly articulate, and he started crying, which was kinda funny. Anyway, it was really awesome to see someone from my family doing something so positive and getting recognition for it.

So, that's what I've been up to. My plan for tomorrow includes more In-n-Out but, other than that, I don't have much of an idea what I'm going to do. Probably a lot of sitting on the couch watching TV. Then a little hanging out with the family. Oh, yeah, and driving the convertible. Sounds like it's going to be a pretty awesome day.


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