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  • Labor Day ’25

    Labor Day ’25

    So, I got Labor Day off this year… Labor Day is generally a grilling day full of BBQ, brats, and beer – but I don’t have anything to BBQ and…

  • 30,000 miles

    30,000 miles

    I bought the car with 24,800 miles on 31 MAY 2024 – 455 days ago. So I’m averaging 11.42 miles a day… Still a daily driver. I did add about…

  • Fast Cars

    I was talking to some folks I know about cars and the subject of ‘too fast to enjoy’ came up… One of the guys I know has some kind of…

  • Traffic

    Traffic

    I’ve been down with the flu for most of the week, and was pretty much death warmed over until Friday. Friday morning I made it back into the office for…

  • Mid-week Update

    Mid-week Update

    I’ve been really busy the last few days… The big thing to deal with of course is my roommate getting laid off as it’s basically a $1500 a month pay…

  • Car Stuff

    Car Stuff

    I tend to post something about my car every thousand miles, mostly to keep track of utilization and whatnot. And, being as I passed another thousand mile milestone this morning,…

  • I drive an invisible car…

    That has to be it. It’s the only thing I can think of that explains the propensity for people to completely miss the fact that my bright white four door…

  • Land of (lane) Confusion

    Another day, another curious example of why everyone’s car insurance costs so much… The police officer who pulled up into the opposite turn lane just as the space cadet ran…

  • Top Fuel

    I just got back from the gas station, which oddly ties into my last post about the cost of food and the financial gymnastics that goes on to afford things…

  • Part and parcel…

    Three posts in one day!? Right after posting the last ramble about an old server, my roommate IM’d me to ask if I left the garage door open when I…

  • Truck part two

    The other day when the roomie and I were returning from dinner at Culver’s, I noted the odd antenna box sitting next to the rearview mirror in his truck and…

  • Truck

    Truck

    Yesterday morning I mentioned to my roommate that his 2017 75th anniversary edition Wrangler unlimited was leaking all over the garage floor – which prompted an hour of helping him…

  • Car stuff

    Car stuff

    Just passed 2000 miles. I’ve had the 300 for about 7 months, so about 285 miles a month. Listening to “Land Locked Heart” by The Midnight

  • Dash Cam 2

    Just to show how prevalent the crazies are now, this is three days after the last post, which also happens to be the next time I left the house… And…

  • Dash Cam

    A while back I wrote about the dash-cam I installed and the reasons why – because it’s kind of a daily thing where someone does something boneheaded in the 5…

  • Exhausted

    Exhausted

    The final piece of my vehicular mod-list was completed today; I think I’m done for the foreseeable future now. Today that last item was completed. I took the car over…

  • Chryslerpunk

    Chryslerpunk

    Back in the 80’s cars were very analog; carburetors and chokes and points and manual steering and mechanical everything including the windows. Back then the Lamborghini Countach, the space-age dream…

  • Tags and Title

    So the notice regarding the county having my title work done came in a few weeks back, so I set up an appointment at the DMV to get my old…

  • Drive

    Drive

    This morning I decided I would top off the gas tank and go for a drive… The route was an old favorite; up Deer Creek Canyon to High Grade Road,…

  • Dash Cam

    Dash Cam

    Given how bad the ‘imports’ are these days – and by import I mean someone from out of state who decided Colorado is the place to be – a dash…