A New Troutmobile

Before I fill you in on how I spent my Saturday, let me apologize for the "Free Stuff" posts that appear directly beneath this one.  See, every year I round up and post a lot of the manufacturer's rebates.  No, not out of the goodness of my heart to try and save you money, but rather as a cheap way to get traffic to my site.

Admitting you're a traffic whore is the first step toward recovery

You'd be surprised how many people show up over here by searching for "Berkley Line Rebate" or "I Want A Crappy T-Shirt Rebate" over the course of the year.  Rather than spread these posts out over several days, I figured I'd get them out of the way all at once.  So if you like 'em, enjoy.  If not, F-off.

Now to my Saturday.  I ended up buying that new car...or SUV to be more accurate.  After narrowing down our choices at the car show a few weeks ago, K.C. & I went with the Subaru Forester (again, we had a '03) as it had the best mix of what we were looking for - AWD, roomy back seat, good MPG, some adequate window space for fishing stickers, etc...

Silver, like old people hair

We did most of the buying online, and then I ended up going in and doing a tiny more haggling in person, before driving off with the new wheels.  This is the 2nd car we've bought online, and I'd totally recommend it, especially if you're not bothered by driving a little bit to that dealer that gives the best price.

Now I just gotta break her in.  Stick the rod holders in the new windows, drop in the all-weather mats, program the GPS to all the not-so-secret locations, and head toward gravel roads and riffles.  Do I smell a road trip?  Spring can't come soon enough.