There are no pics this week.

Buying a car is still frustrating. It’s been a long time since we bought a car. The internet has overhauled the buying process. All the old games dealers used to play are no longer played. Of course, they’ve come up with new games. We quickly zeroed in on a Nissan Leaf. But we would have to finance it to get the best price (which is $4,000 lower than the next best price). But the interest rate is 0% for the entire term of the loan. It just doesn’t make sense. Then the salesperson started talking about how high the depreciation is on electric cars. His theory is that the battery technology is rapidly changing, so nobody wants to buy used electrics. So we thought we might buy a Leaf off of a 3-year lease. The risk is minimal, thanks to Carfax, which reports the entire history of the car, including all owners, maintenance, etc. Of course, one has to buy a car off a lot. We found a blue one we thought we liked. The salesperson gave us some advice, which resulted in the car being sold out from under us. I found that out Sunday, and I was completely bummed. And when all the costs were added it, it wasn’t nearly as cheap as we were led to believe. So now we’re back to looking at a new one. A pox on car sales people.

Danita is zeroing in on her volunteer activities. She visited the shelter. (I was wrong — it’s just a shelter, nothing to do with violence against women). Tomorrow she’ll go to training at the food bank. She should be able to decide what she wants to do pretty soon.

I made a blunder. I got bored with the Superbowl game and went to bed at 9:30. Danita stayed up and got to watch the interesting part of the game. Oh, well. There’s always the replays on YouTube.

Other than that, things are moving along normally. The weather was so nice out today, I decided it can’t be February — 50 and sunny. What a great ride!

I hope this finds everybody doing well.