Those of you who monitor atmospheric conditions in the netherworld may wish to stand back from your display equipment. It is firmly believed that Hell is about to freeze over…
…I have just purchased an iPhone.
Month: January 2017
A Prince Among Cars
A note for the UK Picks
If we called it “Jasper,” Chris would not be able to make all the “My big orange Willy” jokes he’s been making for the last 24 hours.
Things you need…and don’t
Yesterday Chris and I each got the electronic notification that our 2017 car license tabs were due. $400 for Chris’ car and $300 for mine. We also spend $175 a month on parking ($100 for the first car and $75 for the second). And about $800 a year on C’s insurance and $600 a year on mine.
Yet we walk everywhere.
So I did a little math. I bought that Fiat last April. Have therefore owned it for nine months. Not counting the gas expenses, I paid about $1575 over that time frame (insurance, parking, tabs). I have driven it only 2200 miles. That is a cost of 72 cents a mile! That’s insane.
I didn’t bother doing the same math for Chris’ car, but suggested to him that we get rid of my Fiat and have only the expenses for one larger car. Well…you know us, one discussion led to another, and today we traded in my Fiat and his Range Rover for one new Range Rover Evoque.
We chose to do this because his car had been purchased used and is nearing the end of its warranty, and because they had a new orange one on the lot 🙂 The financials worked out all right, too. Our new car is nicknamed William (because he’s orange). But he’s not traffic-cone-orange, more like a pumpkin…so you can call me Cinderella!
(I know some of you already do call me that. So just go right ahead and keep doing it.)
Pics tomorrow. Too lazy to go take them now.
Calendars
It’s time for another one of my philosophical rants.
Why does February only have 28 days? I realize for the true answer to this question I’d have to time-travel back to Caesar’s Rome, when the current calendar was set, but it still bugs me. Why didn’t they pilfer 2 days from the ’31-day’ months and whack them into February to make it 30 days? February could still be the leap year month by turning it into a 31-day month in leap years. It just seems so sloppy.
In “Pogo,” Churchy is constantly trying to reform the calendar (usually into an entire year of October, because that’s when his birthday is), and I read two different sequences about that, last week. Then today I’m reading John Maddox Roberts’ “The Year of Confusion,” which deals with Caesar’s implementation of the new calendar. So this got me thinking, and this is why I came to write this post.
The US Picks 