today i went to ABC warehouse and asked them how much it would be to install a car stereo. they said 40 bucks, plus 30 bucks for parts, plus tax, etc. 80 dollars? bullshit. these guys are scam artists.

instead, i bought a cd player wiring harness for ten bucks, did some fiddlin' and viola! 20 minutes later i have my cd player in my protege, which i've been driving for almost a month now with only NPR [and on good nights, MSU college radio]. i drove around for two hours just listening to some of the cd's i've aquired in the last three weeks. man it feels good. should have seen the moon and the clouds! beautiful night. 66 degrees. perfect.

so yeah, a 96 protege. a slight upgrade from the last hooptie. leon the neon is officially dead and gone. but part of him will live on [the transmission!] in someone else's ride. yay. i'll miss you good buddy!

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung up running from one falling star to another til I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion." - Jack Kerouac.

yep, i'm jack reincarnate.