I have another 4 or 5 days of journal entries handwritten in a book, I just havent gotten around to organizing it and typing it. I can't believe it was almost 2 weeks ago already.

My car is pretty much toast. I stopped by GT Automotive this morning, a couple of the guys were around and I asked them if they knew when they would be re-opening again, and they said Monday, but dont bring your car in, we have no room for it. I said well i cant easily do that anyway, id have to drag/tow it. They took my name and phone number and said they would come out and look at it when they could, but considering that it's an Integra and the water was half-way up the drivers seat, they'll probably come out, look at it for 5 mins and give me a form for Insurance that says it's a total loss. Even if they could get it started, chances are that something else would go ithin the next few months, or even start a fire. They were hesitant to work on the cars and charge people those rates because they didn't think it was fair that someone pays 500 bucks to get their car running and then it dies or catches fire in two months. Don't you wish all mechanics were that honest?

It wouldnt have been so bad if I actually HAD insurance though. I had let it lapse until this week because I was waiting to get paid to renew it. But even if I had insurance, I only had “3rd party liability” insurance on it, not Comprehensive which would have covered this. Last night I was listening to the proceedings from the legislative assembly, and the Leader of Gov't Business (awkward way of saying the guy in charge who's not the Governor) was talking about transportation and said that according to his sources between 5000 and 10000 cars were destroyed.  He also mentioned that most of the cars only had 3rd party liability insurance, and said something about one of the laws/rules that cars older than 4-5 years were not eligible for comprehensive insurance. that was new to me. if that was true, then I couldn't have gotten it for my car anyway (which was 14 years old but looked about 2 or 3 ) He suggessted that Gov't should relax the 27% duty on importation of cars temporarily. Sounds good to me! Japanese Vehicles is going to be pretty busy shipping stuff here for the next while, I think. It's by far the cheapest way to get a vehicle, and since they're all RHD cars, they can come straight in. Personally, I think Im going to start scouring the auto trader in the US. Maybe even Ebay Motors. Mike at Sprite was telling me about his adventure buying a car on eBay last time I was home.