🚗Topless for the first time this year. 🚗Some kind of alternator/mounting bracket/timing belt calamity, which will surely be inexpensive to repair. 🚗Meghan and Brian replaced the brakes. I can stop now. 🚗Long drive to West Seattle 🚗Leisurely drive around Puget Sound 🚗Drive around Green Lake while eating ice cream 🚗A nice gentleman came to the door during the rain shower to let us know that I‘d left the top down. Oops. 🚗Cleaned up after whoever broke into my car 🚗New top for the car. Hottt. 🚗Kept driving down California coast 🚗Meghan drove us into Manhattan at rush hour (!!) to meet Julie. She‘s getting good at this whole New York driving thing. 🚗To Philly! As we crossed into New Jersey, \"Woke Up This Morning\" came on the radio. 🚗Drove back to Chicago through awful storm and traffic 🚗Commute is now driving to the park-and-ride and bussing the rest of the way. 🚗Drove sister‘s huge van to pick up the lady‘s parents at the airport 🚗Drove the big van downtown again 🚗Picked up lady‘s family downtown 🚗Drove lady‘s family downtown in the big van... Finally getting a little tired of the Dog Train and Barenaked Ladies CDs my sister left in the stereo for me 🚗To Portland, to Portland! 🚗Took hachi to the airport; used the Homunculus-Operated Vehicle lane 🚗Curse you rain! Drove to work... 🚗Went to West Seattle for no reason; bought a spectacularly good baguette 🚗The driving around never ends 🚗Drove around Mercer Island for no reason 🚗Drove to North Cascades National Park 🚗Looked at a place in Lynnwood; nothing would be worth driving this far 🚗Drove around, found a farm stand 🚗Looked at more apartments 🚗Looked at yet more apartments 🚗Picked up Peter and Melissa! 🚗Drove to 2 different Whole Foods 🚗Top down for perhaps the last time this year. 🚗Paid more than $35 to fill my tank, the most ever. 🚗New record fill-up total. 🚗Drove Andrew to the airport 🚗Drove up the coast. A hazy day. 🚗Put a new (two months old!) In-N-Out location guide in the car (replacing the seven-year-old one), so he‘ll know where to go if he ever gets that far south again. 🚗Got Andrew at the airport 🚗Took mom to the train station; Nathan enjoyed watching it all. 🚗Slid into the oncoming lane at a 30¬∞ angle. Fortunately there was no traffic. 🚗Picked up the lady‘s parents at the airport! 🚗Black is white, Republican is Democrat, and the 520 was faster than the 90 this morning. 🚗Tons more carting people around 🚗Backed into someone and thought I caused their already-existing dreadful dents 🚗Took the lady‘s parents to the airport 🚗Drove around the new south waterfront development. 🚗Gave up on downtown parking. Bellevue. 🚗One wheel had a screw embedded in it, the other was way overfilled. The tire place repaired everything for free! 🚗Helped Andrew get his big new TV home 🚗Finally got and installed some new license plate screws 🚗Almost forgot that I‘d taken the car to work, which would have been an unpleasant surprise when I ended up at the park-and-ride. 🚗Mercer Island is fun to drive around 🚗Smog check. Passed by such a large margin that I wonder what it would take to fail. 🚗Drove around town with parents! 🚗Lots of driving around town 🚗Top down for the first time this year. 🚗A poor commuting decision got me onto a bus that took 25 minutes to get onto the freeway that I can easily see from my office window. The rest of the trip was not much faster. 🚗Drove around doing a hoji of errands 🚗Driving all around while Sarah enjoyed a Mother‘s day massage. 🚗Drove all around Seattle. We have a beach? 🚗I would like a new car. Its not fair that I can‘t afford one. 🚗Drove to the Gorge, too fast. 🚗I need to learn how to be grateful. I used to be now I‘m not happy. 🚗Free RPG day at Gary‘s Games, lunch at Omni, Bellevue, Green Lake 🚗George‘s truck loses power brakes on road Up North 🚗Recall repairs George‘s brakes 🚗Donna drives us to Arndt Hunting Lodge 🚗I didn‘t get the prius like I had hoped. it hurts. i just wish it would have happened for me 🚗If you are going to visit a large geographical feature such as a mountain, try getting specific directions to the trailhead rather than just entering the mountain‘s name in Google Maps 🚗Lost my if-you-lose-it-you-owe-us-$lots bus pass. Then called the coffee shop, which found it. 🚗Drove the car to work for the first time in I don‘t know how long. 🚗Helping the lady relearn how to drive 🚗Drove the lady to a thingy 🚗Returned home from Canada. Hellish drive + 3 ferries. 🚗Driving practice for the lady 🚗Journey to pick up the lady. Read, listened to TAL, ate a Wendy‘s sandwich. 🚗Someone sliced through the Miata‘s top overnight while it was in the carport. And took my pea coat. 🚗I got a new car. Its not a prius but I love it more anyway. Its a volvo s80 and its loaded with cool stuff. I‘m so glad I waited and didn‘t rush out and get something else. 🚗Test drove a Mazda 5. Not impressed. 🚗Drove back to town for dessert 🚗Driving practice for the lady 🚗Drive halfway to Wisconsin 🚗Drive to Fremont WI to Kate‘s Dad‘s house 🚗Drive up to Arndt Hunting Lodge 🚗Drive back from Arndt Hunting Lodge 🚗Properly inflated tires ftw 🚗Drive halfway back to Virginia 🚗Mazda dealership. Probably going to buy two cars in the next couple of weeks. 🚗Haggling. Dealer likes my offer; let‘s see if budget-keepers do too. 🚗High-pressure, conflicty dealership 🚗Nice, friendly dealership. Bought the cars. 🚗Cleaned out old car and washed it at the thing where they scientifically calculate it to make you run out of time just before you are done and then you have to start over and waste like $1.75 🚗Used car salesmen lived up to reputation. Even worse than I expected. Gah. 🚗Drive to Wisconsin, stopping in Rockford, IL for the night 🚗Drive to Fremont WI to Kate‘s Dad‘s house 🚗Drive up to Arndt Hunting Lodge 🚗Took Andrew to airport max early 🚗George and I drive back to Fremont 🚗Tried to buy car #2; ran out of time while figuring out the trade-in; have to finish on another day 🚗Drive towards home, stopping in Somerset, PA. Mediocre food. Sit far away from the loud party, to little avail. 🚗Flat tire. Walked for 2.5 hours to get jack. Already had one. 🚗Drive to Winston-Salem with dogs 🚗Drove to the store and back. Streets finally getting better. Really wish there was a damn plow around here; without one it‘s worse than the east coast despite the amount of total snow being far lower. 🚗Drive to Winston-Salem with dogs 🚗Did some driving. Conditions are improving. 🚗Drive back to Winston-Salem, only hours ahead of Karen and Gary 🚗Karen and Gary go to Mount Vernon on the way home. 🚗Kate‘s mother moved to nursing home near her home; on her birthday 🚗Got license plates and the nice dealermans washed my car :) 🚗Got first oil change. Had to leave the 6 there to get the rear door handles fixed. Got a loaner 6. 🚗Selling my car to a dear friend. Hope he likes it. 🚗Picked up Ann & Jules at airport