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This evening - Mustang with parking lights, Fusion with nothing.
And I hope we get a lot of rain to wash the de-icer off the roads, the oily sludge drives me nuts.
It has rained steadily all day though, heading for 2" here (a big daily total here, Seattle rain is duration, not volume), which should clean things up a bit.
2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic / 2022 Ram 1500 Bighorn, Built to Serve
Something else fun on the roads here - we'll see how long this lasts. Of course, emphasis doesn't appear to be made by city/county forces, where the real problems seem to exist.
Older Lancer - nothing, Fiesta or Focus (not near me) - nothing, Lexus RX - nothing, Lexus IS - DRLs, Civic - DRLs, Camry - nothing, Mustang - parking lights,
Also, I see our festering trashy clone of the Keebler Elf AG is looking to crack down on wacky tobacky, I am sure that will make the roads safer too.
Nowadays, when I'm in Oregon, I usually pump my own about 50% of the time. I'm not being intentionally jerky here; I just don't think about not doing something I'm perfectly capable of doing. So, unless an "attendant" is on the ball and actually at my vehicle when I'm ready to fill the tank, the chances are that I'm already pumping it, or done pumping it, by the time they even show up.
I did enjoy that article, though. It makes me think about all those stations where they have like 2-3 attendants pumping for a dozen cars, and they just click the nozzle and run off to the next car, not paying any attention to the other vehicles until some time after the fuel is done pumping. Yay safety! LOL
People there who are seriously afraid of pumping their own fuel are amazing, what a world.
That reminds me of another difference - in Europe, at least everywhere where I've bought fuel, you don't have to prepay.
I like the modern days of pay-at-the-pump, but there are still many stations along the Alaska Highway where I must go inside and leave my credit card before the clerk activates the pump. Then, of course, there is the second, post-pump trip inside as well.
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I like to pay at the pump too, for 4% credit card rewards. My local Chevron also gives 15 cents/gal cash discount on weekends, which is even better than the credit card, with current prices.
But really, not like anyone is taking an actual road trip this year, and with the inconsiderate driver thread gone and vanished without comment, there's nothing else going on.
I left at 0330 to drive down to Anchorage to get my Q7 from the dealer. They had it a full week in order to apply the diesel "fix" from VAG. I picked it up at 1000 hrs, and was home by 1700. All in all, a quiet, beautiful trip. I took some various photos along the way as well, but cannot share at the moment, as I pulled them from my iPod last night on my home computer.
7 hour drive home from the dealer, glad mine is closer
Weird day today, no geniuses on my route tonight. Plenty of dopey drivers, but all had lights.
I took one photo of my dash in the Q3 on the way down. It is too blurry to make out, unfortunately, but the temperature at the time was -30F. The wind in that area was also astounding. I don't know what it was, for sure, but I tried to get out for a break and the air felt like tiny knives on my face. I said, "no thanks," and just got back into the car to keep driving. With wind chill, it had to be -50 or -60 right there.
The closest I've been to that cold is in a plane, with the cold outside. When I was a kid and lived east of the mountains, it might have dipped a little below 0F now and then, but that was it. The wind chill might have been -20-30 though. And of course on the west side, anything below 20F or so is seen as bitter cold.
Fintail would be so disappointed....
Blurry, as noted, but this (honest to goodness!) says -30F in the lower right corner of the info screen. 0550 hrs
A frozen Nenana river in the foreground. On our way down last week (January 1st), we saw a dirt bike zooming down the middle of the river. I kid you not!
It actually looks a lot lighter in the photo than it felt in real life. Note the illumination from the car's low beam lights...
My cam is a Blackvue, it's been pretty solid over the past 3 years. Software can have a quirk, but the physical operation has no issues.
Saw a trifecta this evening - Camry with 1: no lights 2: turning without a signal 3: into a green lighted occupied crosswalk. Welcome to the PNW! Apparently the braintrust in my city has fallen for the "vision zero" feelgood scheme, but there seems to be zero enforcement - maybe that's the vision, do what you want and don't worry.