The Caffeinated Penguin

Posted By matt on October 31, 2004

- So Liz (my g/f) is happy that I've grown up and gotten a real car.
- Something is wrong with the driver side lower door speaker. It's either a loose connection, or something screwed up with the tape deck adapter (it doesn't seem to do it with the radio). So, I'm going to use the radio transmitter with my portable music player and see if it still does it, and if it does, then it's not the tape deck. Otherwise, I'll have to buy a new tape deck adapter (the old one is starting to have issues with the wires. They've been all pinched and bent and such).
- It's loads of fun when your girlfriend is being a pain, so you pull a right hand turn, then punch it so she gets thrown around the car and screams.
- I need a new laptop – the video cable comes loose and makes the screen colors all screwed up, so I have to pop off the trim panel and adjust it. Much like moving up from shitty American cars, I need to stop buying shitty Dell laptops…
- We were picking up our housemate from the airport and showing her what the car could do, and I chirped the tires off the line. Woot.
- A 5 car pileup on the interstate is an excellent excuse to take all the twisty country roads back (for those of you familiar with New England, 95 through Providence around TF Green was a mess, so we took route 1 back to URI and got Chinese food on the way).
- 150 miles on 1/4 tank of gas makes me happy…

For the folks who don't know what my old car was:

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There will probably be more pictures as we have nice days and good photo ops. Today was just busy; helping neighbors, picking up housemates, that type of stuff. But, it was a nice day (and warm, like 60's, unusual for Halloween. Usually it's frosty this time of year) so we made use of the sunroof and windows and such.

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