selling the soldier to pay for the frontier - but don't you need soldiers on the frontier?

so we made a list and did a bunch of errands today and let me tell you something about errands - they will wear your britches OUT! and, if you make a list you can sometimes have too many things to get them all done and that's a bit of a let down. but we accomplished quite a bit, including putting the little soldier out for sale.



i meant to take a picture and i definitely will try to get one before she goes for good but that's basically what she looks like there -- in san francisco where clearly all the sentras go on holiday. she's a cute little car with a lot going for her - no rips or tears or stains on the upholstery, no cracks in the dash or doors, the AC works, the heater works, the rear window defogger works, the radio works, the cassette player [i know, right?] works, the brakes and tires and windshield wipers are all good. she's got a few issues, the most pressing of which is that the clutch has needed replacing from the time we got it, and here we are a year later and it still doesn't particularly like to go into 2nd and sometimes it'll just pop right on out of 4th, but it's not any better & it's not any worse. that's good b/c it's not any worse, but it's bad b/c it's got to be closer to the end of its life. she's really in pretty good shape overall but we do need to sell her before she falls apart.

wanna buy a car?