I'm still in my gleeful honeymoon period with my new car. The weather was warm enough last Sunday for me to open the moonroof on my way to SF to watch the conference championship NFL games with Danny and Donald. I'm also quite impressed with the sound system. The stereo has a tape deck and a CD player in dash, and the car has 8 speakers that produce a nice enveloping sound. If it had a line in for an iPod input i'd be exploding, but as it is i can always use a tape adapter and get decent sound quality, better than using an FM radio adapter and certainly less frustrating. V and i tried out the heated seats last weekend also, they're purty nice. Not so necessary in a place like California, but useful nonetheless. My mom was at the dealer last weekend and may have picked up a manual for me (there was none in the glove compartment when i got the car home) ... i need it to figure out the intricacies of the power seats and trip computer.

Last weekend was otherwise spent at Buzz 9 and Fallout for Rudha's birthday and return-to-San-Francisco celebration, watching two thirds of Scarface, watching a marginally enjoyable 1-1 draw between Manchester City and Blackburn with Gary, getting horrible service again at East Window, watching My Life With Morrissey at 8x frame advance for the second time, shopping on the Haight for clothes and CDs, and retaining my status as king of Mario Kart Double Dash despite challenges from Veronica, Gary, and Rudha. I also have maintained the pace of my rapid accumulation of music, grabbing albums by Oingo Boingo (5), The Fall (11), Nirvana (4), and Rage Against The Machine (2). Last week was Krautrock, focusing on Can (8), Neu! (3), Faust (1), and Kraftwerk (6). I've discovered i have a deep interest in so-called "jazz rock", encompassing 60's progressive stuff like The Soft Machine to the aforementioned Krautrock to contemporary indie bands like Tortoise and June Of 44.