Car Shopping Chronicles, Season 2 Part 3
When I realized that the Kia EV6 likely wasn’t the car for me, I started thinking about the areas where it failed to be sure about what I was looking for. Kia is fairly new to EVs, so their products are not mature. They don’t seem to have a strong organizational commitment, on either the corporate or dealer side, to…
Car Shopping Chronicles, Season 2 Part 2
Things are moving quickly compared to my last car buying adventure. As I shared yesterday, in the span of about 36 hours I went from casually looking at one set of cars with a planned acquisition date in early May to suddenly test driving a totally different car with the chance of bringing it home soon. Part of that adjustment…
Car Shopping Chronicles, Season 2 Part 1
I mentioned Monday that I fell into a rabbit hole over the weekend. If you pay close attention to all my nonsense, you probably could have made a pretty solid guess as to what that rabbit hole was. I am officially car shopping again! Just like when I did this three years ago, there’s going to be some background bullshit…
Thursday Notes
I had planned to post a new Reaching for the Stars entry today, but I can’t quite get the right flow to the piece, so I’m going to keep at it a few more days. Instead, some assorted notes to unload my brain. Health After nearly three weeks I think I’m finally beating whatever has been ailing me. S kept…
Weekend Notes
It was a pretty good fall break/long weekend around our house. It included another trip to Cincinnati, a new family toy, and a variety of news on the high school sports front. Let’s dive into the details. CHS Fall Break C and L were off Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday for their fall break. L had basketball practice all three days…
Weekend Notes
HS Football Two games again this weekend. Friday night Cathedral played at the public school down the street. Both girls had some friends over before the game and we walked to the stadium. First play of the night CHS snapped the ball over the quarterback’s head, he chased but could not cover, and North Central took over in Irish territory.…
Labor Day Weekend Notes
It wasn’t that long ago when Labor Day weekends were big, involved deals for us. When we were lake house owners, that would always be the last blowout of the year. Lots of friends or family down for two final days of floating, swimming, boating and fun. We’ve backed off that pace quite a bit and these weekends are much…
Weekend Notes
Even down a kid, it was a pretty busy week. Although some of that activity was due to the missing kid. Jinxed Myself I mentioned in last week’s post that I was off the hook for driving to/from school for awhile. Well, not so fast… C got rear-ended leaving campus by another student on Monday. No injuries, thankfully. Her car…
Weekend Notes
Lots of lasts and firsts over the past seven days. Let’s see if I can get through them all without getting too wordy or emotional. First Week at CHS L had her traditions orientation last Sunday evening and then a half-day schedule walk through on Wednesday before Cathedral began the school year on Thursday. When we picked her up from…
Car Chronicles: The Loaner
I had the pleasure of driving a loaner car for the past week. All the excuse I need to dust off the Car Chronicles series! My Audi Q5 has been great. I’m nearly two years into my lease and other than a few annoyances, I have been extremely happy with it. Late last year I received a notice for a…