That's it for the night...

I'm heading off to the DaveCave(tm) to check email. I subscribe to a couple fairly high-volume email lists so I get about 300 to 500 emails/day. It's pretty easy to weed through but I'm facing a few thousand out there so I'm going to break off here early, slay some email dragons and head off to bed. Flew on Horizon Air both down and back; one thing that struck me was that the flight attendants were having a good time -- good sense of humor and verbal banter. Down there we rented a Saturn Vue mid-sized SUV. We knew that we would be carrying other people and their stuff so we got something larger than a sedan. Uncomfortable seats for long trips. Great acceleration from zero to 40 but it was a slug from 40 on up. I could have mashed the gas pedal, it would drop to second gear and the engine would rev up to 5,500. Considering that Red-line was 6,500, I didn't feel comfortable doing this. Adding insult to injury, this car only had 21,000 miles on it and the radio ate one of the CDs that we brought. Stopped playing partway through track one and gave us a Disk Error when we tried to eject the disk. My truck has over 150,000 miles on it and the volume control on the radio is getting a little 'finicky' -- I expect that but I do not expect a such a steaming massive dose of FAIL on a vehicle with only 21,000 miles. It was a Canadian artist with a Canadian distributor so getting a replacement will be a pain. They said that they would take the vehicle into the dealership and the dealership would mail the disk back to us. Holding my breath here...