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Thanks to everyone’s messages. It makes me happy to think of all of the people that have driven with me on various adventures. I’m glad that when people see a silver ML, it reminds them of me. My cuts are healing nicely and the soreness on my left side is pretty much gone.

“Nothing will make a driver more loyal to its car than a car more loyal to its driver.”

I totally believe that. Despite my thinking that I would get a different car this time, for some reason, I kept coming back to the ML. In the end, it wasn’t as difficult a decision as I imagined.

I’ve temporarily nicknamed her “Phoenix.” Why Phoenix? Because I’m super-cheesy.

A mythical bird that periodically burned itself to death and emerged from the ashes as a new phoenix. According to most stories, the rebirth of the phoenix happened every five hundred years. Only one phoenix lived at a time.

The rebirth of my phoenix took a little under 9 years. The car was delivered this past Wednesday from Caliber Motors in Anaheim (Hills). Had to go with Iridium Silver. The only thing that I changed was the interior color (ash to charcoal). Haven’t been able to get shots of the exterior yet.. I’ll probably get to that on a sunny day (tomorrow). Until then, some gloomy interior shots.

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This past Friday, I headed out to a Catholic church to partake in a fish fry. This was my first fish fry, and I’m not sure about other places, but this was a crazy fish fry. The line to get inside took us about two hours. So what do these people in line do to pass the time? They drink. and drink. and then drink some more. At our disposal was about 30 cans/bottles of beer. Some people even wheeled in a mini-keg. SWEET! Definitely doing that next time. The only problem is the line at the Port-A-Potty gets a little long as the night goes on.

I can tell you that after the first few beers go down, it doesn’t really matter how long the line is. I think it makes the fish taste better, too.

When we finally made it inside, we were served a huge helping of fried fish, cole slaw, fries, and all the bread you can eat. Sides of tartar sauce, ketchup, hot sauce, and cocktail sauce were plentiful. I couldn’t find the malt vinegar, but that can easily be attributed to my inebriation. If you manage to finish the plate, which I did (hey, I WAS in line for 2 hours), you can bring your plate up for more fish and fries. WOW. What a deal.

The fish fries go on every Friday during Lent and apparently are great fundraisers for the church. I hear that they’re bigger in some regions of the country than others. Last week, the fish fry I attended served some 3,500 people x $8 bucks. That’s not a bad day’s work.

See you there next Friday!

Went to Experienced my first fish fry last night. I’ll post more about my it later tonight or tomo. All I have to say is: Beer + Church + Fried Fish = good times.