How Long to Save to Buy a New Vehicle?

I've kept my old Toyota after buying a new one. They are nearly 15 years apart, in terms of age! The old one was purchased in Sep.2009 but is a 2010 model, Corolla Standard CE and the new one in Aug.2025. I kept the Corolla because it has two pairs of almost new Michelin X-Ice tires and you can't travel anywhere without those in Alberta in winter. It doesn't matter how cold it is. It could be a very dangerous road even if it's only -1 ℃ (~ 32℉). For that I haven't taken the new car out. Then it hit me: I'm a loser who has nothing in life. Would this not be better to save and buy another new one just for winter? I can order it with winter tires only. I then would donate the Corolla or sell it.

What would be a good vehicle for the tough winter of Alberta? That's the question. Many might say an SUV or a pickup truck. Some might suggest an electric truck, such as Lightning. I have nothing against SUVs and trucks but I always try to minimize my costs. So I would go with something like a Tesla Model 3 or something less expensive within the next two years of so and I have to consider that:

1) I will have the same income, if not higher,

2) There will not be such a significant increase in my expenses, and

3) I remain relatively healthy to operate a motor vehicle! 

How long would it take to purchase a new Tesla Model 3 or a less expensive model, if it comes to the market as it has been the plan, in cash? If I consider the price $70,000, it would be a minimum of 23 months to make it happen, considering all the above!

I also wanted to move to a new place. This is quite big and spacious for me but I'm looking for a better place, in a better neighbourhood.

It's funny how we all plan for the things we like and I think it's good to be positive and think and plan for the things you like to do and hope with dedication and hard work we achieve it but the interesting thing is that if I was in a serious relationship, none of them would've not even come to mind or if they did, would've never been accepted my partner but she had a major say.

(Photo: One of the many amazing old vehicles displayed in the Toyota Automobile Museum in Nagoya, Japan. Unfortunately I don't know the brand but it's not hard to find. Look how spacious it is. Lovely!)

24 Years and Counting

I thought of something special for the 24th anniversary of my arrival in Canada but nothing came to mind! It was the 29th of the last month but I have been so tired that I couldn't write a damn thing. Not that anyone was waiting for it! Couples might go for a nice meal. Not many options for singles! So I decided to go for a massage on Sat. night. What a waste of dollars and time it was! It could have been a much better experience, had I selected the right person! I don't wanna even write about it! 

Then I thought to myself: There's nothing to celebrate. I haven't achieved anything. In fact I haven't reached my goals. I, have always been a failure. In fact this word could be used as my middle name! The only good thing was that a cousin of mine who lives in L. A. was here to enjoy skiing. I had not seen him for probably 25 years, perhaps one year or more before I left the old country for Canada. We all had a meal in a local restaurant and then he and his family headed to Banff National Park area. I joined them later just to hang out with them, not to ski! I'm not a skier. That was the only highlight of the last week. 

We went up to Sulfur Mountain by gondola, of course. That was my third ride, each 10 years or more apart! It was a pleasant experience. Then we had dinner at Sky Bistro which was really good. The views up there are really amazing and they have added lots of stuff to make it memorable and interesting for visitors, including fire pits, igloos(!), fur blankets and indigenous traditional music and displays and translated to English. They liked it very much. It's a one of a kind experience which you cannot get anywhere else in the world and I must admit that if I was Canadian, I'd be really proud of my country. I'm not Canadian and I'm proud that I was able to show them something that they like a lot.

I didn't pay much attention to the cost. It's a cost that you pay once in your life. Besides the cousin had already taken us to dinner and brought us all gifts. He even paid for the dinner there which was not cheap, believe me but I think the gondola ride was around $280 and it's not important at all. I don't know when if I ever meet this people. Family and friends is all you have in life and if you don't have a good one, you have nothing. For me it's over. I can't have a family now. My family is my Mom and my siblings and a few relatives I have here and there but I also keep my distance to make sure I don't with their family life. All the money, best cars, good job. Nothing could make for a good and lovely family.

(Photo: People go inside these igloos on the top of Sulphur Mountain and enjoy themselves)

A Mishap after 15 Years!

I woke up on time one of the days of the last week and got ready to go to work, as usual, when I realized that I cannot find my car key! Something that had never happened to me in my life and particularly in the past 15 years that I own this car! I have a spare key but has given it to a relative and they are nearly 15 min. drive away. I could get a cab to wake them up. However, this is the benefit of having two cars! 
I just got the newer one out and drove to work. The funny thing is that the Check Engine Light had come up the night before on the way home, for absolutely no reason and I wanted to drive the new car and it happened! I thought it was somewhere in the house but couldn't find it and then it hit me: What if I left it in the car? I went to the relative's house the next day and I got it. When I opened the door, it was in the vehicle and in the ignition! Someone could've easily stolen the car by simply breaking one of the windows or getting in somehow. This could be a benefit of living in a sketchy neighbourhood! The same care was broken into twice when I lived in Downtown Calgary and nothing was ever recovered: Flashlight, CDs, GPS, you name it! Getting off the subject but the only reason I lived there was my partner who never wanted to live somewhere else. Another disadvantage of being in a bad relationship!

I don't remember how this happened but it could be getting some shopping out of the trunk and forgetting the key inside.

(Photo: Many of the new vehicles do not need a key to enter or ignite the engine, including the one I have purchased but my old Corolla still works that way and I like it!)

The Disgusting and Stupid Milani Guys

I needed some electrical work at home and I didn't feel comfortable doing that myself. I decided to call the so-called professionals! The result was a disaster and I would like to tell you whom I had to deal with, so you guys, who are reading this and one day perhaps you need an electrician, you avoid these idiots, completely. 

I opened the Yellow Pages, yes you read it correctly, Yellow Pages, which had been brought to my door recently and looked for an electrician and there was this big add by these guys who call themselves Milani. I called them and asked if they did some small repairs around the house and the lady was like Yes. Then when it came to where I lived, just pay attention carefully here what kind of nasty, stupid, disgusting donkeys theses assholes are: I told them where I lived and the woman had difficulty understanding it, like she had never heard of this small town Alberta, before! Bare in mind that the number I am calling starts with a 403 which is an Alberta code, of course, and this woman goes: Our electricians mostly serve the City of Victoria!!!!!!

What kind of stinking, nasty, full of cockroaches and sewer rats toilet you guys of Milani assholes are running???!!!! You are a disgrace to a human being and every service provider of any kind in the entire country of Canada. Sorry I'm really pissed at these incompetent, disgusting, pinhead assholes of Milani. 😠.

(Photo: An electrician is messing with a bunch of wires! If you open your computer and go to YouTube there're many video clips about cheating and fraudulent service providers of any kind who go to people's residents and charge excessively for the issues that the system does not have as the economy is really bad and everyone is trying to keep up with the life style that they have for years and now it's very difficult to do so. Some people take longer hours at work and some people take second jobs. Others simply cheat! It doesn't have anything to do with this post but I should put it here as this is the main reason I have not called any heating system guys since I have a problem with my furnace for the past two weeks. I might have a post for that soon)

Is that a Murder?!

I saw an SUV had parked near where I usually park, or close to it, a few weeks ago. They were parking like a blind! The only thing is our street is not busy or they could have been hit or complained about. I wondered who that belongs to until one day, eventually, I think, I saw where the driver went. It was a woman who lives at a corner house with a man of a different ethnicity who is usually not home and when he comes he comes late, driving a big and noisy pick-up truck. I didn't mind that until one day she parked closer to where I usually park. Now it's difficult for me to get the other vehicle out of the garage because the first car is blocking it and the SUV has been sitting there for more than a week and that's the vehicle which was driven every day! I think there are only three possibilities:

1) The woman is on vacation, alone, without her partner.

2) The woman, unfortunately, has left the man, which is very unlikely, or

3) The woman has been murdered!

It's hard to believe that someone who lives with a certain someone and has never been on a trip by herself, all of a sudden travels and it's as unusual as thinking she has left either! So where are we getting at? 
I was going to wait another week to see if she's coming back and if not I'd report that to the police but the vehicle was moved on Sun. afternoon.

(Photo: I could park really close to this idiot and once someone is parked in front, she would be trapped like a filthy mouse she is, but gave her space to get the hell out)

Reactions to the new Vehicle

I drove my newly purchased vehicles to work for the first time and of course parked it in the provided parking lot which half of the employees park there (There are have three separate parking lots) and received all sorts of reactions which I kind of had expected but perhaps not to that extent:

1) The first person was my supervisor. He stepped in the office and after Good morning he went: You brought the ..., naming the model of the car!

2) Then it was my manager who asked me if I had purchased a new vehicle. I said I had borrowed it citing the issue I currently have with it. The second part was right! 

3) Then there was this guy who has been working for the company for over 12 years or so and believes his job is the most important one. I have a plan to demolish him, partially, at least, later, and I will write about it! He came out of his nest! (he sits on his ass for at least 7 straight hours a day, coming out only for a lunch which he purchases from one of the local businesses or goes to the shop, rarely) and went to a couple of colleagues and said: Who drives that electric vehicle? My supervisor says: It's his, pointing at me and a colleague makes a face and says: The Troublemaker drivers an electric car?! 🤯. The Nestle guy(!), I think I'm going to call him that from now on(!) says he would like to ask the CEO to provide him with a gasoline pump now that I can simply charge my battery! Then he adds: If I disconnected your car, you wouldn't be able to get home tonight, would you? I told him that it was not my vehicle, firstly and secondly, I would easily get home, even if he disconnected the vehicle because the car has a gasoline operated engine! I add that it was a Hybrid Plug-in vehicle! He said nothing much after that! 

4) The next two people were two ladies who work together and I bumped to them when we were all leaving work. They said they had wondered who drove a vehicle with a licence plate from the State of ..., considering it was a very long trip! It's more than 2,300 Miles or 3,700 Km! I told them that the vehicle belonged to a relative and that was it. 

(Photo: Almost all of the major auto manufacturers have started electric, hybrid and plug-in vehicles. I saw this Fiat a few years ago in a parking lot in Las Vegas, Nevada. Not mine though!)