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Daily Babe: Into Every Life Some Rain Must Fall
January 27th, 2012 by keyserso | No Comments | Filed in Babes, WeatherZen and the Art of Automobile Repair
January 27th, 2012 by keyserso | No Comments | Filed in Amazing, Cars, Do It Yourself
…And the Home of the Free!
January 27th, 2012 by keyserso | No Comments | Filed in Bad Thought of the Day, Don't Look Down, Photography, Politics, Sad Realizations
Vista on the Future: It Stretches So Far Into the Distance.
January 27th, 2012 by keyserso | No Comments | Filed in Nice Thought of the Day, Photography
New Car
January 25th, 2012 by keyserso | 3 Comments | Filed in Cars, Keyser, Keyser's PleasuresI’ve been remiss in blogging of late, so here’s a bit of updating. The middle Keyserling is approaching driving, so in the last week of December, I poked around on the interwebz thinking about buying a used car. Well, one thing led to another, and instead we bought the last 2011 Toyota Carolla-S in the province of Alberta. (It’s a fairly moderate car, but you have to get the “S” trim to buy a “moon roof”. (Dunno why it isn’t a sun roof.) The weather is nice so little around here that I figure you should be able to enjoy it as much as you can when it is warm.) The was in a dealership outside Snowville, so they had to truck it in. I had seen a used one of Craig’s List (or one of those sites), so I said to the guy in the dealership that that’s the color I wanted. We’re sitting in his office filling out some paperwork, and he says as he typing on the computer, “Maritime blue” (or something like that). I said, “Wait a minute. That’s not what I would have called it. In fact, the color I’d seen was this:
“Oh,” he said. Seems Toyota changes some of their colors every few years, and the blue was now “darker”. Hmmm. I’d had my heart set on the color I’d seen, so I was rather dubious about this new color. But the 2011 was a certain amount cheaper than the new 2012′s that were just arriving. And this was the last 2011 left! Well, okay, with some reservations we went ahead with it. So, this was the Wednesday before the New Year’s weekend, and on Friday after noon, they call to say that the car had actually arrived. Woohoo! So I call the insurance company, and they’re close on Friday the 30th, for New Year’s Eve on the next day! And of course they wouldn’t be open on Monday, either, so I’d have to wait four frigging days to get the insurance that would allow me to register the damned thing!
So, I patiently wait. And on Tuesday, I sort out the insurance, and we go in the afternoon to pick up the car. So here it is (in front of our garage the next day):
This picture does nothing to reproduce the full majestic splendor of “maritime blue” (or whatever it’s called). Look how shiny it is! That shine makes the finish look lighter than it is. The guy at the dealership said it would look black at night, and that’s probably true. I’d call it “midnight blue”. The older color was interesting, but it’s probably like those egg-yolk colored cars you see occasionally. The color has a certain amount of novelty value, but it will get tiresome soon. The classic color of the new Toyota will definitely stand the test of time! Needless to say, when I saw the new color, I forgot all about the meretricious color that I’d expected.
It’s got a few tweaks to improve it compared to the old 2003 we have, and it actually cost $4k less. And it looks great too. What’s not to love?
The Amazing World of Bees
January 24th, 2012 by keyserso | No Comments | Filed in Be All You Can Be, Beauty Contest, bees, Photography
To the Few Disappointed Readers of the Lair
January 24th, 2012 by keyserso | 4 Comments | Filed in Do It Yourself, Everyone's a Critic, Keyser, Keyser is an Idiot, Keyser man of Mystery, Keyser's Lazy, MetabloggingAnd when I say “few disappointed readers”, I don’t mean that few are disappointed, just that few probably read the Lair anymore. And for that matter, there isn’t much to read these days, is there? More like “view the pretty pictures”. Oh, well. Sometimes, the a flow and rhythm to life, and sometimes it flows into blogging. Sometimes not. We’re in one of the latter stretches. Still, I like the images, and the Lair amuses me. And that’s all, ultimately, that matters. And if some of you out there in the Wide World of the Interwebs get something out of it, too, then that’s just icing on the proverbial cake. And if not… Oh, well.
