Hrm.. post!

Ya, I haven't posted in two weeks. Whatcha gonna do? hehe. I haven't posted because nothing has really happened.. I'm reading (on Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix), and playing games (Doom 3), or just chatting. I'm still waiting for my car - here's hoping I get a call next week about it. I go to work at 5am now till 1pm, till Sept 11th. Yikes! Uhh.. what else.. nothing really, sorry :)

** WEEKLY UPDATE ** (sorta, hehe)

So yea.. I know I don't update but I'm tryin to get better. What's new? Hmm.. still at Staples, looking for another job. I'm chugging through Return Engagement, which is a good book. Then I'm heading off to read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I've been playing Doom3, which is pretty good (although I haven't gotten really far). Ya know when you get hit the screen shakes, it's very hard to get used to. Gonna play the Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War beta too. Yesterday I went to Island Beach State Park around 5pm. WOW, it was NICE! Water was really warm, nice waves, not a really bad current.. very nice board weather, yessiree. Water was probably better than when I was in LBI. And next week I have a few days off to try and do some things like Hurricane Harbor, but we'll see. Figures there are two tropical storms around now huh? :) I installed WinXP Service Pack 2. I don't know why. Everything seems to be ok so far though. Did I mention that I'm going to Disney next summer for 10 days? YAY! I haven't been there since 1995. Although I had those problems with Lawrence Toyota (see previous post), I did manage to have a better time with Gateway Toyota in Toms River. I have a $500 deposit down on a tC and I just have to wait for it to come in, which I hope is soon..

Lawrence Toyota SUCKS!

Ya know.. I'm aggrivated. Well, kinda. I'll post the more general stuff in my post right after this, but for now I want to rant about Lawrence Toyota. Located on Business Rt 1 South just past Mrs. G's (another evil place) in Lawrenceville, Lawrence Toyota is the closest Toyota-Scion dealership near me, so obviously it was where I thought of going to get my Scion tC. I got an email from them saying "hey, the Scion tC has arrived, come see it!" in the beginning of July. So of course I went the day I saw that email. I was looking at the tC I had there and a salesman came up and asked if I wanted to test drive it. Of course! So he gave me the keys and I went for a little drive (it was fun hehe). When I got back I went inside to talk to the guy who had let me test drive it. He was busy with a customer, so I was passed over to Karl, the Lease Renewal Manager. Karl took my information and went to check on the loan. He came back and said "Are you ready to put a lot down? ha ha ha". I said uh, ok. He told me he would run the financing through and call me the next day. No phone call the next day, so I called Karl the following day. He told me that they were "just backed up and hadn't forgotten about me. And would call me soon". To this day I never heard anything from Karl. A few weeks later I got an email from the Scion Sales Manager, Matt. He asked me why I didn't get a car from Lawrence Toyota. You better believe I let him know. He apologized a lot, looked over the whole situation, and after not hearing back from him for a few days I decided to just go in and talk to him last Monday, August 2nd. He was a lot nicer than Karl, and he went through all the information, had me fill out a loan form, and told me he'd call me the next day (they had to call me because it was later in the day when I went and Toyota Finance wasn't open). So come 2:30 the next day I hadn't heard anything, so I call. Matt tells me their finance manager hasn't heard anything back, so he'd find out why and call me back. Later that night I see he called my house line and left a message 2 hours later (I told him to call my cell...) saying he didn't have my work information on the loan, so he couldn't run it through. I called him back 9:30 Wednesday morning and gave him the information. He told me he'd run the loan through and call me back. Come 4 that afternoon I hadn't heard anything, so I called. He was with a customer, so I left a message asking him to call me back and let me know what happened with the loan. It'll be a week tomorrow, and still no response. The best part? At least 5 times when I was going through the car stuff with Matt he kept apologizing for what Karl did and how he didn't like it because it reflected on the dealership poorly. Well, buddy, you did the same damn thing yourself.

It's Coming!

Not much to report today.. I lounged around, cleaned my room up and put stuff out that I still had packed since before I went on vacation.. I read some of the new Harry Turtledove book, Settling Accounts: Victorious Opposition. I washed my car to get it ready to be sold I hope, and I fixed Kim's computer which was infested with Spyware. So ya, the new Turtledove book is good. It starts World War II with the CS launching a suprise attack into the USA to cut the country in two down the Ohio river. I love Alternate History :) If things go the way I want them to when I call Toyota tomorrow (that is, if the guy I need to talk to is there, and if they give me $5,500 on my trade-in), then I should be able to get a tC this week. When I say 'get' I mean order, of course ;) They're not on the lot, gr.. We'll see. If not I have to wait a few weeks. DOOM 3 COMES OUT ON TUESDAY! WOO! Oh and Sliders Seasons 1 & 2 do too :) Welp, work at 6:30. Sleepy time.