New Car

On Monday night, Chris called from De Anza College, where he teaches, to tell me he might not make it home in his car--a 1995 Honda Civic which had 10,000 miles when he bought it and is 3,000 miles shy of 200,000 now. It had started declerating on the highway and shaking badly. I told him to drive down Camino Real from San Jose to San Francisco. That way, if the car broke down, he could just take the CalTrain for four bucks instead of a taxi or a tow for $100-500.

Ah, the joys of car shopping. We have found a used Nissan Sentra, which we are buying this morning. I really hate having to make car payments on a car that I know we're going to have to sell in a year and a half when we move to Africa. But you do what you gotta do.