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Today, the first day that's provided me with weather that actually lets me work outside in conjunction with time that lets me take advantage of it, is a day of Spring cleaning, organization and renewal. I suppose that, in light of that, it's a very appropriate day for me to write about the new-to-me car I bought yesterday.

I did, in the end, end up going with Carmax and buying the Aveo. I got a really good insurance quote from Unitrin and have prepurchased a policy to begin at the beginning of next month. I'm going to cancel my current insurance effective the same day (a month before it was set to expire) when I call on Monday (the person I talked to on the weekend couldn't cancel my policy). I do have the new car on the current policy until its end, at which point everything switches over to Unitrin.

Obviously, this means that my truck is no longer insured. It is still, for the most part, drivable, though I'd forgotten how loud it is after the accident until I drove it up into the freshly-swept part of the driveway past our fence gate to make room for the Aveo. Still, at this point, I don't think I'm going to have much use for it. Admittedly, it's handy to have a pickup truck to haul things around in from time to time, but I've been amazed at how much room the Aveo has once I fold down and flip up the backseats. It's huge back there! It should be up to ninety percent of my needs, if not more. So, I think it's finally time to say goodbye to the little red trucklet (not to be confused with my first vehicle, Clif-ford the Big Red Truck.

( more pictures and stuff behind the cut! )