So my Vette is in the shop for 3 weeks because some douchebag decided to try and draft me while I was driving down the road and when I went to turn into a parking lot slammed me with his F250 Super-Steel truck.....of course my Vette was munched but his truck was unscathed.

I've got this shitty Dodge Charger that is supposed to hold me off for 21 days and it's barely doing its job. I contemplated renting a Vette for 3 weeks but they wanted $200 a day to rent it and it was a red automatic which really would suck. I am not sure what's worse: having no Vette or a red automatic Vette.

I am still trying to come up with an idea that will give me my reward of a new 2012 ZR1 in gun-metal grey. I really want that new Vette badly. I dream of it all of the time...what song I'll play when I get it, what road I'll drive...who'll I will bring with me on it's maiden voyage...how fast it will go.

At $114,000, it will be my most expensive car to date and frivolous by most people's standards (even mine). In this day and age, is it wise to spend $114K on a car? My thought is yes. Here is why. We are only on this planet a short time. You need to do shit that makes you happy. Period.

Sure, it's only a car. But those who have driven with me and spent the night hanging out with me usually have a story to tell for the rest of their life...and that was just one night for you....I get to do that shit every day. That's worth more money that you can imagine. Memories. They're expensive.

Almost everyone that I have graced with a night in the Vette and hanging out has had such an epic time that I hear from them for years. It's most of the time the best night of their lives. How can a car produce so many good times? I don't know. It just does. Top down. A few drinks. A freeway onramp. A good CD. IT all comes together in a beautiful cacophony of ordered chaos. It's hard to imagine unless you've been there.

The date is July the 10th, 2010. The time is 6:00PM exactly and this is my final post.

I'm going off the grid, permanently. There be no encore. There will be no return.

I am no longer available for contacting in any manner. Don't contact me on Facebook or Twitter and ask me questions about SEO or business development because all such requests will go unacknowledged and unanswered.

It's been a wild ride...almost 10 years now. Hard to believe, for me. I usually never stay focused that long. I've went from a total newbie to an experienced professional in my industry. My knowledge is actively pursued by many...family members, colleagues, friends of my wife, friends of my friends, inquisitive strangers.

I'd sit here and spout off a hundred reasons why but I'll just sum it all up by saying that VANITY got the best of me. A real Happy Helperton.

You see, I was always willing to help people start businesses and/or improve their existing ones. But, in the end, all I did was train my competition and now it's starting to catch up with me.

Laterz.

Garry

What a great lighter the Ronson Comet is! Serious, this thing has outlasted $200 worth of expensive lighters and it was like $12.99 for 3 at the store. So, I was feeling saucy and decided to write the company.

Dear Ronson:

I never have written a lighter company before but I just wanted to say that your COMET series is the best consumer-grade refillable lighter on the market.

After going through more expensive refillables about every 4 months, I grabbed the 3-pack from the supermarket drawn to the 1-year Guarantee!.

I thought 'no way any lighter lasts 1 year'. So i even kept the receipt! I never do that!

It's been more than a year now and all 3 still work perfectly and the bright colors make them stand out when i am looking for it.

WELL DONE RONSON on so many levels: marketing, engineering.

Garry Egan
Portland, OR