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The Official GTO Purchase Story

January 15, 2006October 7, 2011 Chief Oddball

The latest red-letter date (no, not November 5, 1955) in the history of my garage has been reached, and I’m now the owner of a new Pontiac GTO. I touched on it briefly the other day after I got home from the big adventure, but such momentous occasions deserve a more in-depth account, and so here it is.

Proud New Owner

January 14, 2006October 2, 2011 Chief Oddball

I am now, officially, a 2006 GTO owner. Even though the car is not here in my garage yet, it now belongs to me! (Well, and Bank of America.) After a painfully long five months of waiting, today Apple and I drove up to Orlando and signed the paperwork on GTO order number JGTPG6.

Last Ride: An Out-of-F-Body Experience

December 30, 2005October 2, 2011 Chief Oddball

My Trans Am, she is gone. Everything went smooth as silk today with the transfer of ownership. The buyer, Matt, happened to be a registered member of the LS2GTO boards where I hang out, and this morning he flew in with a bank check in hand, intending to buy my car and drive it back home to Virginia Beach.

Long Distance Goat Purchase Justified Today

December 24, 2005October 2, 2011 Chief Oddball

As you may have read here on the site in the last few days, it looks like my ’06 GTO will be arriving at the dealer quite a bit earlier than originally anticipated. Of course, none of this was ever an exact science.

Shodan Wastes an Entire Afternoon

December 17, 2005October 2, 2011 Chief Oddball

Well, I suppose this is what I get for naming my workstation after the queen artificial intelligence bitch gestapo. I’m just getting geared up for work on a client’s site this afternoon — Photoshop is starting, Winamp is playing something groovy and I’m just about to save an email attachment with some notes on my task when suddenly — complete lock-up.

How the HOA Stole Christmas

December 4, 2005October 2, 2011 Chief Oddball 2 Comments

With Christmas approaching, all the IslandWalk neighbors Decorated their houses with holiday favors. But woe to all of these unsuspecting old fools For their homeowners’ assessments were about to come due. In the mail comes an invoice, one each quarter exactly For five hundred and change, it says matter-of-factly.

Watching From Afar

October 23, 2005October 2, 2011 Chief Oddball 2 Comments

So here we are, in Detroit, watching on TV as Greta van Susteren stands and delivers from Naples, FL. She is using her trademark maundering style to tell us all that Florida is about to get “punished” and asking weirdly paranoid questions of her weather expert guests about how long she has until Naples becomes ground zero.

Escape From Naples

October 20, 2005October 2, 2011 Chief Oddball 3 Comments

…Not starring Kurt Russell. Well, rather than risk unnecessary damage to ourselves, we’ve decided that we are going to leave the area before Wilma shows up. We were thinking about taking a little week-long trip to Michigan this fall anyway, so we decided to just turn this whole damn thing into a vacation.

With His Fate Sealed, He Tasks Me

September 29, 2005October 2, 2011 Chief Oddball 5 Comments

Decided to take the WS6 out for a drive today. I don’t drive it too much anymore, maybe once every week or two, since I’ve been working at home full time. Since this is also the slow season at Apple’s restaurant, she doesn’t work as often either, so usually when I want to go somewhere I take her car.

Restaurant Cheapskates

September 29, 2005September 29, 2005 Chief Oddball

My wife Apple works at a restaurant, so of course there are always plenty of comedy bits to hear about when she gets home. Tales of stingy customers, drunken fools, employee drama, etc. are always entertaining, sometimes maddening. I heard a story last night of a party who was determined to get their coupon’s worth no matter how they had to go about it.

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