Our New Car

So, even though I haven't driven my car in over a year and it's fully paid for, Matt and I went out and got him a new lease. We've been driving a Toyota Highlander for the last 3 years and before that Matt was only a Nissan Pathfinder guy. I got him out of the Nissan and into something different. Now, we're heading into an Acura and it's got all the bells and whistles except for the technology package, which we don't need (both our phones have built-in GPS and other things).



We're going over on Friday to pick it up. We looked at the current Toyotas and Audis, but they didn't measure up for the same price and the same packages. Thing is, with the nuclear fallouts in Japan, cars won't be hitting the Japanese car lots till November 2011 - stock will dwindle.

We consider ourselves lucky to have gotten exactly what we wanted and will have it by the end of this week!! YAY!

I LOVE COFFEE!!

When Matt and I were in Germany, I remembered Jacobs coffee, which I used to buy when I lived there and in Austria. There were other brands that were good, too, but a little more expensive or perhaps not as easy to get. Since we got back from that trip (end of 2008), I have been ordering Jacobs coffee regularly. Once in a while, I might get another kind as a one-off just for the fun of it, but more often than not, I stick with Jacobs.

Here are links to places from which I order Jacobs coffee online. It usually comes at the basic shipping rate within 2 weeks.

This site typically has better prices (per pound); right now its ~$7.00/lb:

12-pack shipment for roughly $6.50 a package (the website's math is wrong):

Currently this site has a better price (per pound) ~$6.50/lb! Their 12-pack shipment makes each package roughly $5.84! (And it's easier to order - from same page as the single package.)

There are other places, but these two sites are good competitors and I can't get a better price in Manhattan or anywhere in NJ for the same brand of coffee. There are also other kinds of coffee and countries from which I'm sure there are also good coffees, but these are by far my favorites - and I drink a LOT of coffee. Try it; you'll love it! Enjoy!

Uganda Anti-Gay Bill - Sign Petition

http://www.avaaz.org/en/uganda_stop_homophobia_petition_2/?rc=fb

If you haven't had an opportunity or haven't heard about this Ugandan bill, please read this and sign the petition. If you don't want to sign it, but know people who would, please forward this information to them. Thank you!

Let Uganda know that their legislation isn't only anti-gay, but it's anti-human. This bill represents the same attitudes and hate present under Hitler's regime.