Driving home from the Cape today, I saw two gorgeous male goldfinches fly across the road. In case you don't know what they look like the bodies are a couple inches long, the body is bright yellow, the wings black, and they have a darting flight, wings closing to bullet short distances. They crossed right in front of my windshield from left to ( Read more... )

In a year and a half of my super long commute, I am now up to my third harrowing experience driving - first was the blizzard 13 Dec 2007, second was my flat tire 18 Nov 2008 (which I apparently never blogged), and this third one was a truck losing a wheel right after I drove past. I did see the aftermath of a dump truck that lost a wheel over the ( Read more... )

I just received a nice Safety Recall from my friendly Honda HQ regarding my 2006-7 Honda Civic. Quoting the relevant part, emphasis mine:

Honda Motor Co., Ltd., has decided that a defect related to motor vehicle safety exists in certain 2006-07 model year Civic vehicles equipped with anti-lock brake systems (ABS). The ABS module uses wheel speed ( Read more... )

Vet time, and I'm parked in by T$ and my upstairs neighbor. I don't want to bother her, but his car's a stick... I think I can move it w/o stalling too many times. Stalling's more likely than grinding gears at least, so at least I won't damage his car. :-P Clothes first, that's important. Yay, I get to try stick again. Um, that's a good thing