I am tardy in reporting an addition to the family fleet. My wife retired her Infiniti EX35, which she was never that thrilled with, in favor of a 2018 Audi Q5. She even managed to find one in the blue she liked and with the lighter interior that she always goes with if possible. That combination did require us to have CarMax ship it up from California, but it was worth it. Now she absolutely loves her car. It has less than 19,000 miles on it so I count it as practically new, but MaxCare was still purchased. It is still an Audi.

@distraxi Mine is as easy as it comes. I own a Camaro. It’s a POS.

I went down to fill the Camaro’s tank with some ethanol-free gas since it’s probably the last fill up of the season and the gas pump welcomed me with this

Which was nice. It would have been nicer if I didn’t have to sell a kidney to pay for it.
I also got a “Camaro wave” from a guy in a 74 or 75 which was a first. Normally guys in shiny Camaros pretend they don’t see the POS.

@davesaddiction Building in a desert would seem to me to be the opposite of sustainable unless the population is kept very low.

@ranwhenparked Hey, bucket seats were a pricey option back then!

I couldn’t get to investigating my gas gauge issue until today. I loosened the straps and reached up to see if I could find the ground wire but all I could get was the gauge sending wire so I dropped the tank. The problem was immediately obvious, the idiot who installed the tank did not connect the ground wire. At all. Of course I am the idiot under discussion. Sometimes I amaze myself. I blame a brain cloud.

@highlander They've always been common here. To be fair to the guy there are a bunch of them around that office. One even peaked in on my wife when she was working.

@100percentjake A true Buick pilot wouldn’t have gone sugar free.

@whoistheleader Having grown up in a rural area I can assure you that dirt roads are very real and very dusty.

My wife sent me this picture the other day of some Mustang carnage in front of her office. I guess the driver was unlicensed and uninsured. He claimed that he swerved to avoid hitting a marmot but I'm still not sure how that would have resulted in him facing that direction as the street is in front of him and a parking lot behind. I won't even mention that the speed limit is only 30mph since that doesn't seem to apply.

@nick-hynds Point of order! It was never referred to as a 4.7l. It’s always been a 289. My favorite is the 69 Mach 1 but I’d choose the GT350H. They are automatics but they just look so damn cool.

@dtg11 I'm out of the market until grills shrink way down. Also, until prices get reasonable. In short, I'm never buying another vehicle.

@just-jeepin I mostly had Sears jeans but there were a lot of plaid shirts and a few pairs of plaid pants during those years. I still won't wear green plaid because my mom thought that a ginger like me should wear green and bought accordingly.

@williamssw All of us had those pants back then!

@someoneatacura I had Moderna for all three and haven't had any side effects to speak of. With the first two I was tired, with the booster I didn't have anything. The human immune system is weird.

@ttyymmnn So, time for whatever replaced the NR-1 to go to work.

@cé-hé-sin I am not Scottish, I don't have, or want, any haggis, and I don't know any Burns by heart but I certainly have a bottle, or two, of Scotch in the cabinet so I'll be sure to raise a dram in Rabbie Burns's honor.

@ttyymmnn Looks like the U.S. Navy is down one F-35C. The pilot ejected and was pulled from the water.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/7-injured-jet-crash-landing-uss-carl-vinson-south-china-sea-rcna13429

@dr-zoidberg Gorgeous. We’re still mostly stuck in the fog.

@hammerheadfistpunch I like it, because I work for a translation company and it serves as example of why machine translation isn't always the way to go.