I should be sleeping

It was a good day.  The sickness I was worried about this morning seems to have passed.  It was mostly gone by lunch time, so that's good.  I really wasn't looking forward to the notion of doing the One Lap while either sick or drugged up.

Got the car washed.  I know that doesn't sound like a big deal, but the older I get, the more I have trouble getting motivated to wash a car. (sort of like mowing the lawn... a task that I finally started hiring someone to do this year)  I've owned this Yaris for almost two months.  I gave it a spray-wash at the car was a couple weeks ago, that's the closest I've been to washing it.  Today was the first time I've actually given the car a good old-fashioned wash.  Also the first time I'd really taken a close look at the finish.

If you read the Yaris forums, you'll find more than a few (or maybe it's just a vocal minority?) people who think the paint quality on the Yaris is the worst ever... to the point that they're saying there should be a recall, and a couple people are even talking about class-action lawsuit... geez.  Their major complaint:  paint chips on the hood.  Well, my year-old Yaris with nearly 7,000 miles on it has exactly two tiny chips on the hood, and the paint everywhere on the car seems on par with every other mid-to-low priced car.  Not a show quality paint job, but good enough.

I was kinda bummed to find several areas where it looked like someone scrubbed the paint with a Brillo pad.  Okay, realistically, it was probably something like a Scotch Brite pad.  I didn't spend a lot of time on them, but they all seem to be pretty minor and will buff out okay.  Good news for me:  Unlike my red Miata, the Yaris is clearcoated.  Woohoo!

So, I washed the car.  Spend a few minutes buffing out all the cone marks (I've been a bad, bad boy lately), put a coat of wax on the front end,(didn't take the time to do the rest of the car) and thoroughly cleaned and Rain-X'ed the windows. 

All that remains is to pack everything and load the car, and we've got plenty of time for that.  Jeff emailed me a while ago, he's in South Carolina tonight (left NY early yesterday morning) and will be here tomorrow. 

It's all coming together!