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I got a pretty big ego boost last night. I was talking about my new place to a number of friends and people I knew at the bar where we were doing trivia night.

Then about 8:30 PM my cell phone rings and I get a call from the MINI dealership telling me my car is done. We start talking numbers and payment methods and I am bouncing percentage numbers for outside loans off of him. We finally agree to a 90% financing, 4.6% interest loan. He gets my fax number and confirms ID I will need to provide him. We then talk about pick up times and I tell him how I have to talk to some friends but if I can get there this weekend I will.

I hang up the phone and one of my friends looks at me and just says, "Look at Thom, wheeling and dealing on the phone. Gets a house and now he is has the hook-up all over the place."