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Thursday, January 13th 2011
Good Morning
Events are moving along, for better or worse, just like they always do. Sometimes I wonder. Sometimes I don’t have time to wonder. Maybe this is the way the Power-that-Be needs it to be. We’ve lived for ten years without credit, while subsisting at poverty level, not really worrying about finances, knowing we couldn’t do anything about it anyway, all the while, a steadily rising dread of the day when we finally made a paycheck and the money would need to be paid. I have more rationalizations than debts, if this makes any sense.
I don’t want to turn this BMN in to a crying story. It feels more like a breakthrough for me. Not that I would ever embrace the taxman, but I did finally this week take more responsibility for the small debt turned large. In fact if it wasn’t for Nell speaking for me this never would have been cleared up. I still got some issues, no doubt. Nevertheless, I asked Nell to tell the NM tax collectors that I promise to never go into business ever again. They win. Just to prove this isn’t a rant, I will drop this right here and now.
The point is the tax lien for $950 is removed from my social security number, hopefully clearing the way today for the Credit Union to lend us the $12,000 for the 2006 Jeep Liberty CRD (four cylinder diesel) so I can get back to doing my part in saving the whales, I mean world, by burning waste veggie oil. I’m not entirely naive, I know I don’t have the money yet, and a light at the end of the tunnel is sometimes just a light, and the tunnel may still be long.
Besides all the other realities which seem to be relentlessly hitting this kid lately, as the money gets closer I realize that although the taxman isn’t really behind me yet, another is dead ahead. I’ll ask the CU today how I deal with the tax on $12,000. All in all it feels pretty good. The bottom line is we’ll need to borrow enough to cover transferring the title, paying the tax, and then spread the payments out to a third year.
It’ll work out, I know it will.
Another funny thing and the last one because I gotta git, is the 1984 Blazer we got from Scott and Sara feels like it is falling apart under me. I don’t know how much of this effect is a projection in my mind, and how much is is actual mechanical reality. For instance, I haven’t checked the oil in a month, which is foolish when one relies on a quarter century old vehicle. Radiator fluid pours out underneath from somewhere, causing the heat to blow cold, which feels worse becasue the rear window which is a piece of fiberglass, has four inch gaps sucking out whatever heat the poor old dysfunctional heater manages to create.
For all the rust and worn out dodads and complete lack of bells and whistles, that Blazer has been the longest lived and most reliable vehicle we’ve ever owned. Ten years! It needed a starter once.
I hope and pray that our new investment holds up half as well.
Okay, gotta go check on the folks.
Brian Rodgers
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There are Isuzu NPRs all over the place here, but no small utility vehicles, I would even go for a micro utility vehicle, but they are probably not allowed on the road , what with all the Hummers and Excursions hogging the roads
Brian, it’s a pity you can’t access some of the diesels put out by the Japanese makers. Toyota and Nissan put out some wonderful engines. There is a thriving export industry in Japan exporting real cheap used vehicles around the world. Graydon Blair seems to know how old they need to be to get them into the US. You can buy these vehicles both over the internet and through agents based in Japan. There are 100′s of 1000′s of these vehicles in New Zealand and they have dramatically lowered second hand vehicle prices here over the years.
Paul