So we sold the SUV.

After working through the next no-show, and a guy who was too confused by my explanation of what the large looming repair was (hybrid cooling system) and decided he didn't want to deal after a couple of telephone exchanges, we got somebody who actually showed up, and actually had money and actually decided to buy it. He turned ( Read more... )

So now we have too many cars. Time to sell the SUV! I put an ad on craigslist, and I got many phone calls nearly immediately - people must have triggers set. I made some agreements for when people should come, and today I got three no-shows and one guy who didn't want it in the end. I have a guy coming tomorrow at 9 AM - actually one of the no- ( Read more... )

So despite my complaining, the Tesla really is cool. It figures out how much rain there is, and therefore how fast to run the windshield wipers. It has settings for different people, and so it will remember how you like the seat when your driving, so you just click on yourself and "poof" it's all set up for you. Unfortunately, we need to factory ( Read more... )

We picked up the Tesla yesterday. As one of Valerie's friends said, "it's like driving a laptop". We're still learning the operating system. We played with cruise control, climate control, and navigation, and now we're playing with range. We drove 75 miles today, and used about 50% (from about 80% down to about 30%), so it seems like it's not as ( Read more... )

We bought a Tesla.

It's a used 2015 model S. We don't have it yet; we're still working on the paperwork and registration and all that rot. We had been hoping to get Tesla to do a "used vehicle pre-purchase inspection" thing, but it turns out they don't really offer that service. And, who else is going to know about them? Well, there turns out to be ( Read more... )

I decided to stop having a heart, much as it was amusing. In the last three weeks, I have killed at least 20 mice. That is a lot! I have the kind of traps where they are easy and safe to set and easy to shake the mouse out without having to touch it. For most of this time, the mouse didn't get very much of the bait before tripping the trap, and so ( Read more... )

Stopped by a VW dealer today, to look at an ID.4. It has the flaw that all modern cars have of just too much fancy garbage. Like, in order to turn on the reading light you just touch it, but since there's no tactile feedback, it makes a clicking sound. But, that clicking sound doesn't come from the light, it comes from the audio system of the car. ( Read more... )

So I got this iPhone, with the idea that "everything would be great because it is new and modern". It turns out that it's so modern, that it really really really wants to figure out some other way to produce sound than it talking. So far, I have had to tell it not to use Bluetooth to give me directions (the radio was not playing in the car, so it ( Read more... )

I am in California. I have the world's worst rental car. Sometimes when I am going to see my mom, if it turns out that it doesn't cost much more for a compact SUV, I go for it, because it's so much easier to get her in and out of such a car with a high front seat, and usually that gas mileage hit is not all that huge - they get in the low 30s, and ( Read more... )

Our lives are complicated, and I arranged for a car to teleport itself northward, and today I blew off work and biked up to get it.

Recorded 22.70 in 2:21 for a scarily-bad average of 9.6.

Two things affecting this: fairly stiff headwind, and, apparently my odometer is reading about 3% low, since the same ride is usually 23.3. Now, I did get a new ( Read more... )