it's no wonder why people hate new cars
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.
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.
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.
Today, 2024-Dec-31, is the last day of 2024. This year in particular involved emotional things that I've accepted.
I didn't ask for a cat in my life, but this one just happened to show up.
A few months back, some new neighbors moved into the house next to the one I live in. No big deal. A short while later, they got a cat. Okay. Some time passes, and the cat started exploring. Cat ends up on top of the wooden fence separating the properties. It's just there, not scared at all, and mew'ing. I go to pet the cat. It lets me, and eagerly.
