Here we go again… <BULLWINKLE>This time fer shure!<BULLWINKLE>
Let’s see… Los Angeles with record rainfall (5″ in 24 hours), snow in the passes, and 60 mph wind gusts with lightning. Sounds like the perfect time to drive cross-country.
Riding shotgun with me are a PowerBook G4, a Rhinovirus Giant Microbe, an ancient scrabble board, several pounds of computer-related detritus, enough data on DVD-Rs to rival most national libraries, an octopus, several months worth of misc.transport.road postings, a lobster, and a 40GB iPod filled with disreputable disco, C-list psychsploitation, several days worth of BBC radio documentaries and Fifth Hope hacker conference audio, and the wiPod guide to free Wi-Fi networks.
Note to anyone contemplating purchasing a BMW: expect to spend $100 a month in repair and maintenance upkeep. It’s worth the hassle if you want to drive a nice car, but don’t complain if you’ve been putting things off for, say, a year and you want to have everything done. Just saying that you need to do the math.