Asymptomatic

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Have I mentioned the new car?
August 05, 2004

We were on a hunt for a new vehicle over the last couple weeks of July. Our CR-V had seen better days, and now after the transmission slipping and the unnatural squealing upon taking turns it was time to get a new car.

This is the most exhaustive search I’ve ever been on for a car. We went to four dealerships and looked at different models. I wrote about some of them here. I didn’t write about the Honda because we hadn’t driven it yet, but it was a disappointment. They couldn’t put all the options we wanted into the car. The sales guy seemed to know that we would walk away from it before driving it, and after our last Honda experience (the CR-V) I wanted something that wasn’t a Honda.

Give it back
August 04, 2004

You probably haven’t noticed, but I’m trying to change. I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few weeks (months?) working on public projects. Significant amounts of my time have gone into making WordPress better, not just with the hacks I’ve written, but with a couple of core code changes. I have also been beta-testing some software from MicroOLAP hoping to make it better before it’s released. And there’s always the Blog Breakdown chart, which possibly started me on this whole new direction.

Molotov abandoned car
August 03, 2004

Realize that I did not take driver’s ed. in school because I wasn’t as inclined to be driving as all of my older classmates. Nonetheless, I took my driver’s test, passing both the written and driving tests on my first try. Nowhere in my memory did the driving manual say anything about hanging a rag out of the driver’s side window when abandoning my car.

I’ve seen a few cars lately that have done this. They were left in odd places, too. I suppose that there must be some reason for leaving a t-shirt or a towel, usually white, rolled up in the driver’s side window, otherwise not so many people would do it.