MINI and me.

Aug 30, 2007 11:35




This is me, with my brand-new prescription sunglasses, sitting in Northwest MINI's waiting lounge, waiting on the luggage racks to be installed on my brand-new MINI Cooper S. I'd take a picture of it, but it's in the back, getting fondled by service techs.

I love the car. The gas mileage is phenomenal (around 32mpg, combined city and freeway driving) it's cute as a bug's ear, and everyone smiles at me. Maybe because I've got a perma-grin these days.

I'm getting luggage racks installed so I can load up art supplies and a suitcase and go see my kids and my beautiful granddaughter. I'm working on finding a battery for our smallest camera, so that I'll be more likely to snap pictures on a moment's notice. Isn't going to happen this trip, but that's alright. I've got a wonderful Canon Rebel XT that takes incredible pictures, even though it's heavy and bulky. I'll just set it on easy point-and-shoot mode, and reduce the picture size so that the work required to get pictures onto here and on a web site is minimal.

Anyway, I've put 1200 miles on my car in just one month. That's unheard of, for me. Normally, I drive about 4,000 miles a year. Obviously, I'm enjoying the car. Pictures of it in a day or two, if I can sit still long enough to actually work the camera.

PS: Did you know that pulling huge graphic files and editing web sites on a free connection at a car dealership is damned near impossible? =D
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