so yesterday, just about the time I was packing up to go home, I recieved a phone call from the Bob Lewis Volkswagen dealer. They said they were able to find me a lower APR for my new car, and I just needed to come resign the paperwork. So after work I drove down to the dealer, and they changed my APR from 11.9% to 7.89% which in terms of dollars, lowered my monthly payment $13 a month and saved me about a thousand dollars in interest payments. Good Game Bob Lewis.

Ill have more pictures of my new car up soon as I get a free afternoon to take them.

so i finally bought myself a car. It took me a while to figure out what kind of car I wanted to get, and I originally decided on the Mazda3 Hatchback as you can see from one of my previous posts, but I’ve finally decided that I cant afford that car at this time. Instead I used one of my connections to get a deal from the Bob Lewis Volkswagen dealer on stevens creek. I bought a 2003 Jetta Wagon GL, with 30110 miles on it. The car has the remainder of the factory warranty, plus an additional two years and 25,000 miles as a certified used car. This puts me out to about 75,000 with warranty coverage. In addition to finding a car that will fit my needs, I ended up paying almost $4,000 below bluebook for it, knowing Bob Lewis sure did help me out a bit. The car isnt in perfect condition, but it looks very nice.

Below are the dealers pictures that were on their site before I purchased the car. The gallery link will have more pictures of it when I get around to it.

Well as i mentioned briefly before, I finally got a real full time job. The company I now work for is called the GDR Group, which stands for the initials of the three partners that started the company. More info about the company can be found at our website, but basically GDR Group is a total solution provider. Companies need many things to get started and to keep them running. Internet access, structured wiring, telephone deployment, web development, outlook network services via exchange, file and print sharing, firewalls, VPN’s, and the list could go on. The idea behind GDR Group is to have all of these services setup and maintained through one party. No longer will the customer have to call several diffrent providers and staff full time employees to provide these services withing their company. GDR Group sends out techs, uses its telco contacts to improve data and voice service deployment, and contracts out good voice and data cable companies to setup and maintain your business so you dont have to. Ok enough talking about what my company does, as for what I do, Ive been meeting the clients in the San Jose and greater bay area, and learning how each client is setup. The typical place has a t1 for data, another for voice, a sonicwall firewall, several vpn connections, several 2000 or 2003 servers providing basic day to day tasks that small to medium sized businesses need. my job is to drive to these companies, wherever they are, and perform routine maintinence tasks on their servers, install patches on their desktops, and troubleshoot and fix any computer, internet, or phone problems they might have. We are the people they call whenver they have any kind of comptuter issue, and we have decent response time.

With all that said, and almost a couple weeks now under my belt working there, im starting to feel more confident, and ive visited clients by myself now. Im also looking into getting a new-ish car to use for work, since ill be driving a lot. I think im gonna get a 2004 mazda 3 hatchback. 160hp 5 speed manual with 17″ rims and lots of extras for the price, and its a lot of fun to drive. The problem is finding a good used one for the right price. Since its still such a new car, there arent too many used ones out there, and the ones that are there are selling for close to the cost of a new one. zoom zoom.