Something completely different-Part 2

So I go to make the deal on the car. Salesman fills out paperwork. Leaves to process a form and returns with bad news. there might be an issue with elegibility. Huh? Seems that theyear I bought the van Plymouth went away and Chrysler took over the models. So mine is a Chrysler Voyager. There is no such thing on the governments official list of cash for clunkers. So we submit the paperwork, do the deal take the Fit home. If Washington approves the deal I own the Fit. If not, I take the car back to the dealer and get my money back since I would be on the hook for an additional $4500. I am not a happy camper.

And now for something completely different.....

I am a cheapskate when it comes to cars. I drive them until there is nothing left. One of our two cars is an aging 2000 minivan. It is rusty. It is noisy. It doesn't start well. Worst, it has a fatal problem with a strut mount that will break potentially causing disaster. the car is worth $0. It only gets 18 miles per gallon. What to do? Can you guess? Yup, for the first time in almost 10 years I will pull into my garage tonight in a new car. My worthless piece of junk suddenly became worth $4500. I am delighted. I don't have the cash to buy a new car so this really helps and solves a big problem. The new car? a Honda Fit.

Secure this!

I was amused to read a recent announcement at work about the new highly secure passwords for the employee information web site. The new password protocol requires upper and lowercase letters, special characters and numbers
From now on instead of remembering that my password is my mom’s name or the address I lived at when I was in college I now must generate a super secret password.
Of course that new password is not something that I use every day so I will forget it, as will most people. So to remedy the possibility that terrorists may find out my vacation balance, I, like everyone else, will write our password on a scrap of paper and put it in our desk drawer. Security achieved.
I only can imagine the day when there will be a highly secure password needed to open my desk drawer.