So I'm looking to buy a convertible this year. I've always been partial to convertibles but when I wrecked my bike, I determined that I'd never ride again and would simply replace my bike with a topless cage (or like my daughter Brianne explains, "a car without a lid").
My quandary is now whether it would be better to buy a convertible in the winter or if it would make any difference at all. I'm sure if I asked a salesperson somewhere that would give me a number of arguments about how right now was the best time to buy a car but I'm looking for some unbiased advice.
I'm going to buy a used car (I don't believe I'll ever buy new again). I'd like to buy from an individual but I rarely find listings from individuals. Do you think the time of year will make a difference assuming that I'm probably going to find the car I want on some used lot? If so, what month do you think would be best? Is late Feb too close to spring?
I've converted my primary computer to Vista and Office 2007. So far I'm pretty happy but I've been told the new OS smell wears off really quickly.
I've had some fun with a couple issues. The best issue is my external display. I'm running a Dell Inspiron 9400 with ATI Radeon Mobility X1400. I have a dock that I sit my laptop on and have an external display that sits to the left of my laptop. When I sign onto my computer, Vista always sets my external monitor to the right of my primary display rather than the left.
When I go into my settings and move the monitor back to the left, it works correctly until I have to log into my machine again (when I come into the office in the morning, get back to my desk after a meeting, my screen saver comes on...)
There are plenty of people out there with this issue (google: vista external display switch sides). A comment by J. Quick on Rick Strahl's blog suggests that the issue is caused by TMM or Transient Multi-Monitor Manager. This is a task you can find running in the Task Scheduler.
Following Quick's advice, I disabled the TMM job and killed the one that was running and then even rebooted but this didn't fix my problem. I guess I'll keep searching...
Gordon Keith played this song about the Patriots scandal this morning on 1310 AM The Ticket in Dallas. The song is great - it's not your standard sports tribute song (it's actually really good).