For me, Thursday is one of the worse days of the week (right after Monday). I say this because it's the day before the best day of the week and as much as you want it to fly by, it seems to drag on even longer. Today is one of those dragger-oner days that I hope will end soon.

I realized that I've not updated on the car buying situation. D and I did go shopping on Saturday. He's decided and set his heart on the Mazda 3 Sport. The problem is that it's a couple of bucks over our budget. He's so set on getting this that he left the salesman to do some talking with the manager's to see if something could be done for us. We've been waiting for nearly a week and all we've heard so far was that he's still working on it. I don't think it's going to happen but he's got his heart set on it so, we're in limbo. He wants it so badly he's thinking of putting his raise (which is retroactive until March and will, hopefully, be applied in September - which means at least $2,000) down as a down payment. This would bring the monthly payments into our budget. To be honest, as much as I love this car, I'd be happier with the Pontiac Wave. True it's not quite as nice and fancy as the Mazda (and not quite as big either) but it's similar in style (hatchback) and the payments are much lower. I'm letting him take the lead on this one. We've set a budget and as long as he sticks to it, I'm ok - thought let it be known that as much as I love fancy, pretty things, I'd rather have the lower payment.

I don't usually do this but there were a couple of recent news stories that have made me very happy. One is the recent release of the 2006 list of most powerful Canadians in Hollywood. I was impressed to see that Keanu Reeves came in third and Shatner was still in the top 5. Keeanu is an interesting one because he's not technically Canadian but he grew up in Toronto. Oh well, we'll take it! More on this can be found here.

The second (still happy but a bit more pensive too) was the news that they have finally apprehended a suspect in the JonBenet Ramsay murder. I'm not sure what was most disturbing about this case: the fact that they couldn't find the killer, the grizzly murder, the media craziness or the fact that the poor parents had to deal with everything from media to accusations of involvement in the death of their little girl. Either way, I'm thrilled that they caught this bastard and I hope they take justice to the fullest extent of the law. I'm not one to stand behind capital punishment but if he's guilty (which he has confessed to), I hope they do kill him.

Enough of that. After all that sad talk, I think it's time for a crummy joke. Yes, a laugh before the end of the day.

Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening windows.