One day at a time

Three weeks with zero cases, that's good going. I've booked a weekend away in regional Victoria and I'm looking forward to the change in scenery more than anything else. I have decided to purchase a new car, I am staying with Suzuki but returning to their Swift model. The old car is being traded-in and I plan to pick up the new vehicle early in December. It's probably the most expensive online shopping I have ever done. As far as I can tell, my involvement in the budget product is almost at an end, I've been volunteered to be available when the budget is released to be on hand to answer questions, but other then that it all seems to be very quiet. Started working on the next two products (they tend to run into each other) and the information for these will be collected in 2021. Will have to see how that runs as a number of the businesses I deal with are going to close down between Christmas and New Year, but they are expected to respond to our requests very shortly ...

Picked the new car on Saturday. It all went very smoothly and sales person was very pleasant to deal with.  Bought car mats and a boot tidy, as well as trying to get to grips with the Bluetooth in the car. It's not the most intelligent, I can't find a way to get the car to pick up a call if I'm using an iPod through the USB port. 

In the end, the car offered was a red one, but otherwise it's the same as the green one I thought I might get. If everything goes to plan I should be able to pick it up on Saturday.

I went car test driving and it was eventful (not for all the right reasons) but one of the positive things to come out of it was a good feeling about the new Suzuki Swift. Don't mind a red, blue or even the new green version.

Ok it's actually just a car but I've had fun driving it, whilst keeping safe and dry, and its been very reliable. In fact it's been more of a "friend" than many of my human friends.

Faced a difficult decision today whether to go ahead with the car purchase and whether to trade in my current car. The additional pain of trying to fight to dealer and save $1000 was not for me, the only consolation is that I am getting a decent trade in value. Not 100% comfortable with my decision. I want a new car but I dud not originally want to spend this much of getting one. Hopefully I only have to suffer in the short term to enjoy something better in the long run.

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