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03-03-23, 10:01 AM
#7751
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03-03-23, 10:03 AM
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03-03-23, 10:03 AM
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), but the Taycan has been sold.
03-03-23, 10:07 AM
#7754
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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03-03-23, 10:08 AM
#7755
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Standard marital conversation:
Me: Do you want to go to Costco with me?
Her: OK
Me: It opens at 10:00 so I'm getting ready.
Her: I'd rather go at 11:00.
Me: I'd rather go at 10 and since I'm going for me, 10 works out best.
Her: OK
Me: It's 10:00, are you ready yet?
Her: No, but I'll be ready by 11:00 just like we decided.
Me: Do you want to go to Costco with me?
Her: OK
Me: It opens at 10:00 so I'm getting ready.
Her: I'd rather go at 11:00.
Me: I'd rather go at 10 and since I'm going for me, 10 works out best.
Her: OK
Me: It's 10:00, are you ready yet?
Her: No, but I'll be ready by 11:00 just like we decided.
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03-03-23, 10:11 AM
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03-03-23, 10:13 AM
#7757
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03-03-23, 10:13 AM
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Standard marital conversation:
Me: Do you want to go to Costco with me?
Her: OK
Me: It opens at 10:00 so I'm getting ready.
Her: I'd rather go at 11:00.
Me: I'd rather go at 10 and since I'm going for me, 10 works out best.
Her: OK
Me: It's 10:00, are you ready yet?
Her: No, but I'll be ready by 11:00 just like we decided.
Me: Do you want to go to Costco with me?
Her: OK
Me: It opens at 10:00 so I'm getting ready.
Her: I'd rather go at 11:00.
Me: I'd rather go at 10 and since I'm going for me, 10 works out best.
Her: OK
Me: It's 10:00, are you ready yet?
Her: No, but I'll be ready by 11:00 just like we decided.
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03-03-23, 10:14 AM
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03-03-23, 10:16 AM
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03-03-23, 10:16 AM
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cowboy, steel horse, etc
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03-03-23, 10:20 AM
#7762
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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Which reminds me - since The Boys both seem to be allergic to fish (the vertebrate variety, not crustaceans), I really miss fish. I had some nice Petrale sole last month. Maybe the first fish I'd had in 3-4 months.
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03-03-23, 10:21 AM
#7763
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Oh, well, coming up on 52 years this summer. It's like I should have these things figured out by now... but I still get confused daily.
A week or two ago, I showed her a thread in Electronics Garage Door Opener... Seriously about a garage door opener that fits inside the handlebar. I tough that that might be handy. Anyway, she says that's the stupidest thing she ever saw.
So after a week of riding from home, I mentioned yesterday that I still thought the opener would be handy. After informing me that she had no idea what I was talking about, I showed her the thread again and her comment was, "Yep, still stupid."
A week or two ago, I showed her a thread in Electronics Garage Door Opener... Seriously about a garage door opener that fits inside the handlebar. I tough that that might be handy. Anyway, she says that's the stupidest thing she ever saw.
So after a week of riding from home, I mentioned yesterday that I still thought the opener would be handy. After informing me that she had no idea what I was talking about, I showed her the thread again and her comment was, "Yep, still stupid."
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03-03-23, 10:23 AM
#7764
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Standard marital conversation:
Me: Do you want to go to Costco with me?
Her: OK
Me: It opens at 10:00 so I'm getting ready.
Her: I'd rather go at 11:00.
Me: I'd rather go at 10 and since I'm going for me, 10 works out best.
Her: OK
Me: It's 10:00, are you ready yet?
Her: No, but I'll be ready by 11:00 just like we decided.
Me: Do you want to go to Costco with me?
Her: OK
Me: It opens at 10:00 so I'm getting ready.
Her: I'd rather go at 11:00.
Me: I'd rather go at 10 and since I'm going for me, 10 works out best.
Her: OK
Me: It's 10:00, are you ready yet?
Her: No, but I'll be ready by 11:00 just like we decided.
Mrs. GJ has a habit of doing what I call "subvocalizing", where she thinks about asking me to do something without asking me to do it and then gets upset when I don't do what she hadn't asked me to do, because as she remembers it, she had.
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03-03-23, 10:24 AM
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03-03-23, 10:27 AM
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Taycan is a great car, a fantastic luxury car but not sporty like the 911/981. Not a “fun“ tossable car to drive but crazy fast. Just haven’t driven it much, only 6k over almost two years. So, good time to take advantage of the used car market.
If Texas had a better charging infrastructure that enabled me to drive it to Austin/Houston type places, I might have used it more.
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03-03-23, 10:27 AM
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Oh, well, coming up on 52 years this summer. It's like I should have these things figured out by now... but I still get confused daily.
A week or two ago, I showed her a thread in Electronics Garage Door Opener... Seriously about a garage door opener that fits inside the handlebar. I tough that that might be handy. Anyway, she says that's the stupidest thing she ever saw.
So after a week of riding from home, I mentioned yesterday that I still thought the opener would be handy. After informing me that she had no idea what I was talking about, I showed her the thread again and her comment was, "Yep, still stupid."
A week or two ago, I showed her a thread in Electronics Garage Door Opener... Seriously about a garage door opener that fits inside the handlebar. I tough that that might be handy. Anyway, she says that's the stupidest thing she ever saw.
So after a week of riding from home, I mentioned yesterday that I still thought the opener would be handy. After informing me that she had no idea what I was talking about, I showed her the thread again and her comment was, "Yep, still stupid."
Also...the handlebar garage door opener is brilliant. Then again, I'm just a dumb guy.
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03-03-23, 10:33 AM
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How is the handlebar garage door opener any better than a keypad next to the door. I can have the door open in less than a minute after hitting the driveway.
03-03-23, 10:33 AM
#7769
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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Nothing immediate.
Taycan is a great car, a fantastic luxury car but not sporty like the 911/981. Not a “fun“ tossable car to drive but crazy fast. Just haven’t driven it much, only 6k over almost two years. So, good time to take advantage of the used car market.
If Texas had a better charging infrastructure that enabled me to drive it to Austin/Houston type places, I might have used it more.
Taycan is a great car, a fantastic luxury car but not sporty like the 911/981. Not a “fun“ tossable car to drive but crazy fast. Just haven’t driven it much, only 6k over almost two years. So, good time to take advantage of the used car market.
If Texas had a better charging infrastructure that enabled me to drive it to Austin/Houston type places, I might have used it more.
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03-03-23, 10:35 AM
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03-03-23, 10:37 AM
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03-03-23, 10:37 AM
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Nothing immediate.
Taycan is a great car, a fantastic luxury car but not sporty like the 911/981. Not a “fun“ tossable car to drive but crazy fast. Just haven’t driven it much, only 6k over almost two years. So, good time to take advantage of the used car market.
If Texas had a better charging infrastructure that enabled me to drive it to Austin/Houston type places, I might have used it more.
Taycan is a great car, a fantastic luxury car but not sporty like the 911/981. Not a “fun“ tossable car to drive but crazy fast. Just haven’t driven it much, only 6k over almost two years. So, good time to take advantage of the used car market.
If Texas had a better charging infrastructure that enabled me to drive it to Austin/Houston type places, I might have used it more.
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03-03-23, 10:39 AM
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03-03-23, 10:40 AM
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The door could be already open by the time you get to it.
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Until there's a non-Tesla national supercharger network THAT WORKS RELIABLY, EVs are going to be limited to a few major metro areas, or being Teslas. It's amazing to me that a company that makes cars so shoddily built that steering wheels falling off is a known issue can build a network of superchargers that work reliably. But here we are.