Being 30


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This is a post I meant to save for the end of the year, as posts like this tend to be placed there. But so much about what I have to say feels better to get it out sooner than later and move on to the next thing. Bear with me because there is light […]

November 21, 2018

Battery Blues


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The cold got to us. Ellie told me yesterday that the car wouldn’t start and she was going to walk to work. Fine, I thought, the temperatures were hovering at 5 or 10 below all Sunday night. We’ll just need to warm up the battery and it will be back to normal. No dice. Ellie […]

December 20, 2016

Car Accident


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As I left for work a couple of weeks ago, I got into a minor fender bender on my way out of my apartment parking lot. Initially, my emotions soared as I do not like when other people mistreat my expensive things I meticulously maintain. You see, I was driving out the last straight shot […]

February 26, 2014

Minneapolis


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When I bought my 2007 Kia Rio back in December, I was in need of a car to get to and from my job every day (then a 1:15 commute each way). I was in a time crunch too, and had very little time after work to view cars in person. But I ended up […]

July 30, 2013

Kia Rio Cruise Control


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When I bought my 2007 Kia Rio back in December, I didn’t realize how much I’d miss having cruise control. Apparently, the 2007 Kia Rio doesn’t come with the option of cruise control which is pretty amazing considering it’s a great piece of technology to have and it has been around in its current form […]

July 3, 2013

I was wrong about Math


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I did my math wrong in my last post. This was my equation: z + m(y – 400) = x But the 400, the amount I spend on gas a month was wrong. I checked it the other day after I filled up my car, a 2007 Kia Rio (see photo), and I got 37 […]

April 8, 2013