Posts Tagged ‘car’
Gas prices have already hit $4 per gallon , and the doom-n-gloomers say it could go as high as $5 this coming summer. That’s some serious ouch right there. And here I’d been looking at replacing the WRX in the next couple of years with something family-friendly-yet-sporty (I was looking at a Mini Countryman S [...]
So based upon recent discussions surrounding finances and our priorities right now (savings, house, kid, workshop) and such, it’s more or less come down to having to keep this beast for another couple of years. She’s at the 94,000-mile mark, and they’ve been pretty hard miles. And I’ll be pouring some money into her for [...]
1. You may (or may not) have noticed that this site was suspended — along with my others. A2 Hosting claims that one of them was hacked, but couldn’t tell me which one or the symptoms. They re-instated me around 6:30 this morning (not long after I discovered it), and I’ve spent the last hour [...]
This is my “lottery car” — a Nissan GT-R, affectionately known in the automotive press as “Godzilla.” It’s a budget super-car, capable of near-200 mph speeds, for less than $100K. I’ll take mine in the premium edition, with the Super Silver paint job (a $3000 option), cold weather package and the iPod interface, thanks. It’s [...]
90 minutes on stationary trainer (morning), with audiobook. Clean office. Clean out car. Lunch with future in-laws, trip to Uncle Hugo’s. Visit with possible future painter for my bike frames. Gym for weight training (evening). Not a very productive day so far.
Photo by Tomoyoshi. Licensed under the Creative Commons I’ve got a thing for good product design. What can I say? It’s what keeps me attracted to Apple’s line of products, it influences my choices on the bike (we can have the Shimano Dura-Ace vs. SRAM Red debate another time), and so on. There’s just something [...]
