You can say many things about Tool, but mundane is objectively inaccurate.

Heading to the cabin every Friday seems like an excellent problem to have. And yes, seems like a PHEV would be the ticket until battery prices come down a bit.

There was a dark period in my life when I managed a small restaurant. I am not naturally organized person so it was a bad fit and a bad idea. I had a small notebook on me at all times to relieve my anxiety that I was forgetting to do something important. I would brain dump at night to alleviate anxiety-induced…

Get yourself a Leaf coming off lease for like $10,000. It will be zippier than your Mazda, too.

The Rivian truck is exactly the EV I want. Long-range adventure vehicle ready to tow a camper. Crossing my fingers that Rivian follows through on their plans to build a charging network that covers outdoors destinations. Right now the fast charging is on on the interstate, but I want to see 150 kw+ charging in…

A work van might also have enough roof space to make solar panels worthwhile. If it’s going to be sitting at a job site for hours, it might as well be adding a few miles of range for free.

I don’t have the armor (didn’t come with it when my cousin handed it down to me in 198X, but I still have the core toy, and it’s spectacular.

No, in terms of budgetary priorities. That could buy a lot of health care, education, and infrastructure.

Moana is an excellent film no matter how old you are.

My mom let me do this, but we had to go through the motions of me faking sick and her faking believing me. Taught me a lot of wrong lessons. Definitely would have been better if I could have been upfront about it.

I did this when I was trying to get started in a new field. I got a couple of semi-regular gigs doing freelance work and set it up legit with a basic website. Got my foot in the door for full-time work about a year later.

Is this a regional thing, or available nation-wide?

I think you’d be surprised how much energy is required to move a car at freeway speeds for multiple hours.

There is a very friendly and polite man in Glasgow, Scotland with whom I share a name and a similar email address. We have had opportunity to correspond on a handful of occasions when I have received an important message (real estate contract or car repair estimate) intended for him. This is an opportunity for a pen…

Whereever there is an RV, I want to be 5-20 miles further down the road the RV can not traverse.

I want my retro future where Skylabs were still orbiting when the Shuttle came online and the Saturn VII got us to Mars in 1988.

I love watching car companies slowly increase the size of a model until they look around and realize they’re missing a model where one of their models used to be and so they come out with a new model that occupies the same place in the lineup as one of there current models did a decade or two before. Cracks me up…

“I feel I’m not being very articulate about this” is my go-to, especially with my spouse.

Huh. That winter description maybe just turned me off. Getting away from the dreary inversion months is one of the main things making me want to get out, and as you say, at least I can get above it when I absolutely have to. I appreciate your insight, and good luck to you as well. If you find that Colorado unicorn,…

This was definitely within 40 minutes of Manhattan. I’m curious, how do you like Spokane? It’s on my list of places I’ve never actually been but think about hypothetically moving to someday because I could come out considerably ahead on my house sale.