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State Farm called to discuss my accident. I have a feeling I'm about to get royally screwed. Edit: State Farm tells me that the independent witness says that I went AROUND a car in front of me and ran the red light. Because there's this witness saying this and I ...

Cars - Comments Off

A friend's comment on the Scotchguarding of the car: Excellent! Good thing you added the Scotchguard; we forgot and now they keep eating all my marmalade and drinking all the whisky. I drove it to work today and it's really nice. Smooth, accelerates well, handles nicely, and is generally comfortable ...

Cars, Geekery - 1 Comment »

In a little while I'm going to take the rental car back. I'm going to take the train and then the bus to get home. I'll actually go past home and go right to the dealership. I've got that "OMG WRONG" feeling. That non-specific sort of dread. Like ...

Cars - 4 Comments »

Got the liftback in black. There ARE no Priuses to be had! It’d be at least 8 weeks before any are available in Maryland (we called several dealers), and possibly as long as 12 weeks for the colour/package combination that we really want. So rather than take the mass ...

Cars - 2 Comments »

Yep. Bought a Yaris.

Cars - 4 Comments »

Meredith the Prius is a total. I will not be getting my car back. I'm heartbroken, but on the bright side, this means I can buy a new car and get rid of the rental car. This will make me much happier in the long run. The good news is ...

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