Faced with an Imperial Smoothie Cruiser — the stalwart silver ‘98 Dodge Intrepid ES — sporting over 100,000 miles I chose the only rational option. Buy a 2008 Mazdaspeed 3! Ah, the glories of a car payment.

Julia picked out the color, by the way. According to Mazda literature that color is “True Red”. According to the ColdForged household that color is “Eye Searing Red”.

An aside

It’s been so long since I updated the site with any regularity that I just happen to be re-reading The Confusion so I don’t have to update the sidebar. What perfect, wonderful harmony!

NOTE: The copy is gone. Please don’t ask me to gift it to you. Thanks to my buddy Dave giving me the Half-Life 2 Orange Box for the PC, I now have a free electronic copy of the original Half-Life 2 to giveaway. All you need is a Steam account and I’ll “gift” the game to you.

Perhaps at this point I should actually finish it as well. I never did. Though with Portal and Team Fortress 2, that’s a tough call. They’ve really put a lot of value into this package with 5 pieces of content. Admittedly, some of the content is old but that doesn’t mean it isn’t still valuable.