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Monte Carlo arrangements have been made. Pick up day is Friday. Woo hoo!

There’s bad things about living in Hobart, like the $500 it’s going to cost to bring the car back from Melbourne.

There’s good things, too, like the view out our window this morning as I was eating breakfast. Click to enlarge.

OK, you can’t see much from that one. Try these….

That’s Wild Oats XI on its way to line honours in the 2008 Sydney to Hobart yacht race, one of the premiere blue water classics on the yachtie’s calendar.

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Why is there absolutely no news about what must be some pretty intense negotiations about Saab’s future? The waiting and the silence is driving me nuts!

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As noted in comments by Dippen, apparently this Viggen convertible is worth £36,000. If the ex-famous person being blasted in the UK tabloids really paid that then I’m sure I can arrange some great real estate for her to look at.

Of course, it’s just the media being the media. The car probably sold for that when new and is now worth around 5K.

Lots of people doing bad things in Saabs in the media lately. It’s a bad phase we’re going through.

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We often praise the Swedes for their measured and sensible approach to all things. The truth, however, is that there’s idiots in any country, even the one sensible enough to invent Saabs.

A Swedish man’s attempt to impress his girlfriend on Friday night backfired, putting him in the hospital with serious burn injuries and facing allegations of endangering the public…..

….The woman told police in Västervik in south eastern Sweden that her boyfriend poured gasoline over his arm and set the fuel on fire.

“It obviously didn’t go well. He burned his arm and other parts of his body and was in a state of shock,” said Kalmar police spokesperson Reine Johansson to the TT news agency.

“Don’t ask me what the point of the trick was supposed to be.”

The point? Same as it always is in situations like that. Drunken hopes of some horizontal folk dancing.

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Are they having a 24 hours of LeMons every month now? Seems like it.

Some of the guys related to Jalopnik are running their V8olvo once again, although they’ve given it a white paint job to match the current northern winter. The costumes are good, too.

They’ve adorned the formerly black beasty with some Scandinavian death metal themed passengers:

Cool.