menga

it's no wonder why people hate new cars

Thu 2025 Jan 9

If you want to know why so many people hate new cars so much, just look at the steering wheel.

Yeah, I am middle aged. Yeah, that means I have a bias towards older things because that's what I know best. But when it comes to cars, there's absolutely no question that the older stuff was much easier to deal with.

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i wish i knew about neti pots years ago
Tue 2025 Jan 7

The older I get, the more I learn about stuff.

It didn't take long after 2025 began before I got my first cold of the year, and I have a standard list of things I do to make dealing with that easier. This is stuff I wish I knew when I was younger, but better late than never.

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my ups and downs with usb
Thu 2025 Jan 2

When I first started using PCs as a kid, there were only two portable storage formats. Tape (as in microcassette) and floppies (as in floppy diskettes). That was it. Tape was way too slow, so I used floppies, and I always hated them.

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2024 was about acceptance
Tue 2024 Dec 31

Today, 2024-Dec-31, is the last day of 2024. This year in particular involved emotional things that I've accepted.

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garmin drivesmart 76 (because i don't do smartphone navigation)
Tue 2024 Dec 24

There was a very brief period of time when I tried using navigation on the phone. Twice. The first time I tried it, I could barely read the screen due to sun glare. The second time, the phone overheated from Florida sun in less than 10 minutes and shut down. I went back to using a Garmin and stayed there.

And that brings me to one of Garmin's current offerings, the DriveSmart 76.

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